League’s Weekly Awards Go to Bailen & Kasdorf
ALBANY, N.Y. - The latest ECAC Hockey men’s weekly awards were announced Wednesday, Mar. 6 as Nick Bailen from Rensselaer was voted Player of the Week, while his teammate Jason Kasdorf was named both the league’s Rookie of the Week and Goaltender of the Week.
Player of the
Week
Nick Bailen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(Senior, Defenseman - Fredonia, New York)
Supporting Information:
Bailen led the team offensively with five points, tallying two
assists in a win over Clarkson and a goal and two assists in
victory over St. Lawrence last weekend. He was also a plus-5,
including plus-3 versus the Saints. Defensively, he helped the
Engineers allow just one goal, a 4x3 power-play goal, on 35 shots.
Clarkson had 15 shots Friday and St. Lawrence had 20 the next
night.
Other nominees: Andrew Calof, Princeton, Shayne
Gostisbehere, Union, Matt Harlow, Brown, Andrew Miller, Yale, Greg
Miller, Cornell & J. Samuels-Thomas, Quinnipiac
Rookie of the
Week
Jason Kasdorf, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
(Freshman, Goaltender - Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Supporting Information:
Kasdorf earned two home wins last weekend, leading the Engineers
to their eighth win in their last nine games. The freshmen
netminder stopped 34 of the 35 shots he faced in a 5-0 win over
Clarkson and a 4-1 win over St. Lawrence. With the stellar
weekend, he finished the regular-season with the league’s
best goals-against average (1.39) and ranked second in both save
percentage (.945) and win percentage (.812) in conference-play.
Other nominees: Charles Grant, Dartmouth, Christian
Hilbrich, Cornell, Nick Lappin, Brown, Matt Wilkins, Union &
Stu Wilson, Yale
Goaltender of
the Week
Jason Kasdorf, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
(Freshman, Goaltender - Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Supporting Information:
Kasdorf led the Engineers to a pair of wins by stopping 34 of the
35 shots he faced. He earned his third shutout of the season by
stopping 15 shots, including seven in the third, in a 5-0 win over
Clarkson. He then allowed just one goal, which came on a 4x3
power-play to Greg Carey, while making 19 saves (9 in 1st, 7 in
2nd, 3 in 3rd) in a 4-1 win over St. Lawrence.
Other nominees: Anthony Borelli, Brown, Mike Condon,
Princeton, Charles Grant, Dartmouth, Andy Iles, Cornell, Jeff
Malcolm, Yale & Colin Stevens, Union
