CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. — ECAC Hockey has announced its men’s award winners for the month of February: Sean Farrell (Harvard) and Collin Graf (Quinnipiac), Travis Mitchell (Cornell) and Ian Moore (Harvard), Yaniv Perets (Quinnipiac), and Sam Lipkin (Quinnipiac). 

Co-Forwards of the Month

Collin Graf (So., Quinnipiac) and Sean Farrell (Jr., Harvard) have continued to light it up for their respective teams through to the end of the regular season.

Graf scored five goals and added eight assists during the month of February, finishing with a +10 rating and scoring at a 1.63 points per game pace in eight contests. He scored two goals against St. Lawrence (February 11), had a goal and two assists en route to a three-point night and a win against Yale (February 17), and added three helpers in a 5-2 defeat of Brown (February 18). 

Farrell scored six goals and assisted on seven more during eight games in February, scoring at a 1.63 points per game pace. In the preliminary round of the 70th Men’s Beanpot, Farrell had two power play helpers in a takedown of Boston College (February 6), then followed it up with a five-point performance against Dartmouth (February 10) that saw him score two goals and add three assists, including one on the game-winner.

Co-Defenders of the Month

Earning Co-Defender of the Month honors for February, Travis Mitchell (Sr., Cornell) and Ian Moore (So., Harvard) have been lights out.

Mitchell, in the final eight contests of the regular season, scored two goals and added six helpers for eight points and a +10 rating. He opened February with a two-goal outing against Rensselaer (February 3), then had three helpers the very next night in a 10-1 rout of Union (February 4). 

Moore had eight points and finished February with a +9 rating. He had two assists in the Crimson’s preliminary round win at the 70th Men’s Beanpot, including helping set up the overtime game-winner. The next weekend, he had two helpers against Dartmouth (February 10), and wrapped up the month with a buzzer-beater game-winner against Clarkson (February 25). 

Goaltender of the Month

Yaniv Perets (So., Quinnipiac) earns back-to-back MAC Goaltender of the Month honors after a perfect February, winning eight straight contests and allowing just seven goals through more than 550 minutes between the pipes. Perets made 128 saves and earned three shutouts, blanking Harvard (February 3), Clarkson (February 10), and St. Lawrence (February 11). With a 0.79 goals against average during February and a .958 save percentage, Perets has been irrefutably dominant for the Bobcats as they earned their third straight Cleary Cup. 

Rookie of the Month

Sam Lipkin (Fr., Quinnipiac) has been unstoppable throughout the month of February, putting up ten points in eight games and scoring two game-winners en route to claiming Rookie of the Month. Of Lipkin’s performances this month, two of his best came in back-to-back contests against Yale (February 17) and Brown (February 18), both of which saw the forward put up two goals in dominant wins. Against Yale, Lipkin scored two straight goals, including the game-winner, and assisted on a third for three points.

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