Adam Gaudette of Northeastern University was named Friday as
the 2018 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner in St. Paul, Minn. The award, which
has been presented since 1981 to the top player in NCAA Division I men’s ice
hockey, is named for the former Princeton University hockey star of a century
ago.
Gaudette, a 6-foot-1, 184-pound junior forward from
Braintree, Mass, is the first Hobey Baker winner to hail from Northeastern. He led
the Huskies this season with 30 goals and 30 assists for 60 points in 38 games,
and paced the nation in both total goals and total points. He also helped NU to its
first Beanpot Tournament title in 30 years, notching three goals in a 5-2
championship contest victory over Boston University on Feb. 12.
Gaudette, 21, tallied 68-74—142 points in three seasons at
NU, and also helped the Huskies to two NCAA Tournament appearances, plus the
2016 Hockey East tournament championship, its first league title since 1988. He
played his final collegiate game in a 3-2 loss to Michigan in an NCAA Northeast
Regional semifinal on March 24.
A fifth-round draft choice of the Vancouver Canucks in 2015,
Gaudette had played in his first four career NHL games as of Friday. The Canucks
close out their 2017-18 campaign on Saturday at Edmonton, while the 2017-18
NCAA season also ends the same night, with Minnesota-Duluth facing Notre Dame for
the men’s Division I national title.
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