Awards highlight Friday at Frozen Four; LeBlanc headlines CCM All-American Teams

St. Cloud State senior Drew LeBlanc took home the highest honor in college hockey on Friday night, winning the Hobey Baker Memorial Award at CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh, but there were plenty of others who took home some hardware.

Players from 20 different Division I programs were represented on CCM Hockey's All American Teams. A whopping 22 that were American-born were named to the squads this year, including ten seniors and seven each from the ECAC and WCHA.

First Team East

G - Eric Hartzell, senior, Quinnipiac
D - Nick Bailen, senior, RPI
D - Chad Ruhwedel, junior, UMass Lowell
D - Trevor van Reimsdyk, sophomore, New Hampshire
F - Kyle Flanagan, senior, St. Lawrence
F - Johnny Gaudreau, sophomore, Boston College
F - Steven Whitney, senior, Boston College

Second Team East

G - Jon Gillies, freshman, Providence
D - Shayne Gostisbehere, sophomore, Union
D - George Hughes, senior, St. Lawrence
F - Greg Carey, junior, St. Lawrence
F - Mike Collins, junior, Merrimack
F - Andrew Miller, senior, Yale

First Team West

G - Brady Hjelle, senior, Ohio State
D - Nick Jensen, junior, St. Cloud State
D - Jacob Trouba, freshman, Michigan
F - Austin Czarnik, sophomore, Miami
F - Danny Kristo, senior, North Dakota
F - Drew LeBlanc, senior, St. Cloud State (2013 Hobey Baker Award winner)

Second Team West

G - Juho Olkinuora, sophomore, Denver
D - Dan DeKeyser, junior, Western Michigan
D - Nate Schmidt, junior, Minnesota
F - Corban Knight, senior, North Dakota
F - Anders Lee, junior, Notre Dame
F - Ryan Walters, junior, Nebraska-Omaha

In addition to being named the East's Second Team netminder, Gillies was named the Hockey Commissioners' Association's Division I National Rookie of the Year. Gillies, a South Portland, Maine native, went 17-12-6 on the year and posted a Friar program-record five shutouts, while his 2.08 goals against-average was second best in program history.

Friar senior captain Kyle Murphy was honored as the HCA's Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award Winner, joining fellow Providence city collegian Bobby Farnham, who earned the award in 2012. The award is named after the late Army player Derek Hines, a "consummate team player and team builder" who died in the line of duty on Sept. 1, 2005 in Afghanistan.

Finally, St. Anselm College (Manchester, N.H.) senior forward Tucker Mullin was awarded with the prestigious BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award, now in its 18th season. The Andover, Mass. native is only the third non-Division I winner of the award since the 1996 inaugural recipient, J.P. McKersie of the Boston University Terriers.

With the individual honors given out, there is just one more to be crowned on Saturday night in the Steel City as Yale and Quinnipiac take over center ice tonight, deciding which Connecticut program will be crowned the state's first-ever national champion.

Joshua Kummins covers Hockey East for SB Nation. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKummins.