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Perets Lands on Hobey Baker Top Ten List
3/16/2022 1:07:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
Sixth Player in Program History to Earn Top Ten Spot
St. Paul, Minn. - Quinnipiac goaltender Yaniv Perets was named a top ten candidate for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, the 2022 award honoring college hockey's top player, as announced by the award committee on Wednesday afternoon.
Alphabetically, the 10 finalists are: Matty Beniers, University of Michigan; Bobby Brink, University of Denver; Brian Halonen, Michigan Tech University; Luke Hughes, University of Michigan; Devon Levi, Northeastern University; Dryden McKay, Minnesota State University; Ben Meyers, University of Minnesota; Yanev Perets, Quinnipiac University; Nathan Smith, Minnesota State University; and Bobby Trivigno, University of Massachusetts.
Perets is the sixth Quinnipiac player to be named a finalist for the award in the program's history, joining Odeen Tufto '21 and Keith Petruzzelli '21 last season, Chase Priskie '19 in 2018-19, Eric Hartzell '13 in 2012-13, and Reid Cashman '07 in the 2004-05 season.
Perets, who was just named ECAC Hockey Player of the Year and Goaltender of the Year, is the only ECAC player on the Hobey Baker Top 10 list.
Producing the best statistical goaltending record in the storied history of the ECAC, Perets established league records for goals against average, saves percentage and shutouts. He had an amazing 0.89 goals against average helping the Bobcats to the regular season crown. Plenty of awards followed as ECAC Player of the Year, Goalie of the Year and First Team all-conference.
His current record is: 20-4-2 – goals against average 0.89 (1st in nation) – saves percentage .952 (2nd in nation) – 11 shutouts (1st in nation), earlier this year he set an ECAC conference record going 369 consecutive minutes without allowing a goal. The academic sophomore is a business major with 4.0 GPA and has allowed two or less goals in 24 of 26 starts.
The ten finalists were selected by voting from all 59 Division I college hockey head coaches plus online fan balloting. Next, the 30-member Selection Committee and an additional round of fan balloting through the Hobey website, hobeybaker.com, from March 17-27 will determine this year's Hobey Baker winner. Criteria for the award are: displaying outstanding skills in all phases of the game, strength of character on and off the ice, sportsmanship and scholastic achievements.
The Hobey Hat Trick (three finalists) will be announced on March 31, 2022 and the Hobey Baker Award winner will be announced on Friday, April 8, 2022. The announcement will be televised live on the NHL Network and streamed on the Hobey Baker website at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Hobey Notes
Alphabetically, the 10 finalists are: Matty Beniers, University of Michigan; Bobby Brink, University of Denver; Brian Halonen, Michigan Tech University; Luke Hughes, University of Michigan; Devon Levi, Northeastern University; Dryden McKay, Minnesota State University; Ben Meyers, University of Minnesota; Yanev Perets, Quinnipiac University; Nathan Smith, Minnesota State University; and Bobby Trivigno, University of Massachusetts.
Perets is the sixth Quinnipiac player to be named a finalist for the award in the program's history, joining Odeen Tufto '21 and Keith Petruzzelli '21 last season, Chase Priskie '19 in 2018-19, Eric Hartzell '13 in 2012-13, and Reid Cashman '07 in the 2004-05 season.
Perets, who was just named ECAC Hockey Player of the Year and Goaltender of the Year, is the only ECAC player on the Hobey Baker Top 10 list.
Producing the best statistical goaltending record in the storied history of the ECAC, Perets established league records for goals against average, saves percentage and shutouts. He had an amazing 0.89 goals against average helping the Bobcats to the regular season crown. Plenty of awards followed as ECAC Player of the Year, Goalie of the Year and First Team all-conference.
His current record is: 20-4-2 – goals against average 0.89 (1st in nation) – saves percentage .952 (2nd in nation) – 11 shutouts (1st in nation), earlier this year he set an ECAC conference record going 369 consecutive minutes without allowing a goal. The academic sophomore is a business major with 4.0 GPA and has allowed two or less goals in 24 of 26 starts.
The ten finalists were selected by voting from all 59 Division I college hockey head coaches plus online fan balloting. Next, the 30-member Selection Committee and an additional round of fan balloting through the Hobey website, hobeybaker.com, from March 17-27 will determine this year's Hobey Baker winner. Criteria for the award are: displaying outstanding skills in all phases of the game, strength of character on and off the ice, sportsmanship and scholastic achievements.
The Hobey Hat Trick (three finalists) will be announced on March 31, 2022 and the Hobey Baker Award winner will be announced on Friday, April 8, 2022. The announcement will be televised live on the NHL Network and streamed on the Hobey Baker website at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Hobey Notes
- Nominees by conference: Big Ten 3, CCHA 3, Hockey East 2, ECAC 1, NCHC 1,
- By class: Senior 3, Junior 3, Sophomore 2, Freshman 2
- By position: Forward 6, Defense 1, Goalie 3
- By nationality: U.S. - 8 (three candidates: Minnesota; one each: Illinois, Florida, Michigan, Massachusetts and New York) Canada - 2 (Quebec)
- Minnesota and Quinnipiac have finalists for the second straight season
- Hobey Baker Award Banquet will be held August 11 in Lake Elmo, Minn.
- Visit hobeybaker.com or on Facebook at: facebook.com/TheHobey
- The Hobey Baker website also has the top ten video and in-depth bios
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