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Let’s Play Hockey magazine and the Herb Brooks Foundation announced 20 goalies today to their watch list for this year’s Mike Richter Award.
The Mike Richter Award, now in its’ fourth year of existence, honors college hockey’s top goalie, based on on-ice performance, while also taking into consideration performance in the classroom and the community.
Here are the 20 goalies named to the watch list:
Name School Year
Paul Berrafato # Holy Cross Junior
Michael Bitzer Bemidji State Junior
Gordon Defiel Lake Superior State Junior
Parker Gahagen Army West Point Senior
Mitch Gillam # Cornell Senior
Kyle Hayton # St. Lawrence Junior
Cole Huggins Minnesota State Senior
Tanner Jaillet Denver Junior
Cam Johnson * North Dakota Junior
Merrick Madsen # Harvard Junior
Chris Nell # Bowling Green Junior
Cal Petersen # Notre Dame Junior
Colton Phinney Princeton Senior
Ryan Ruck # Northeastern Sophomore
Eric Schierhorn # Minnesota Sophomore
Alex Sakellaropoulos Union Senior
Shane Starrett Air Force Sophomore
Atte Tolvanen Northern Michigan Sophomore
Drew Vogler Merrimack Sophomore
Evan Weninger # Omaha Sophomore
Obviously still a preliminary list with lots of time for other goalies to work their way into consideration, but it’s a good starting point.
Previous winners of the Mike Richter Award are Thatcher Demko(2016), Zane McIntyre(2015), and Connor Hellebuyck(2014).