2021-22 CHN Player of the Year: Bobby Trivigno : College Hockey News
April 1, 2022
CHN Staff members Report
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DENVER This was potentially the most hard yr nonetheless to select a Participant of the Year.
When the dust settled, College or university Hockey News’ assortment was Massachusetts ahead Bobby Trivigno.
The senior is an NHL free of charge agent, and is expected to signal shortly with a team. He finished his last season with the Minutemen scoring 20 targets and 49 factors, with 126 photographs and a group-best in addition-22. For his higher education profession, Trivigno finishes with 53-78—131. As a freshman in 2019, he was infamously suspended for the national championship recreation following a penalty he took in the semifinal that was reviewed after the sport. He then avenged that yr by major UMass to a national championship in 2021, when he was named the tournament’s Most Remarkable Participant.
This calendar year, the Minutemen gained the Hockey East championship, with Trivigno scoring the tying aim and placing up the time beyond regulation recreation winner. UMass went to the NCAAs, losing 4-3 to Minnesota.
A scenario could effortlessly be manufactured for at least 10 other players to earn Participant of the Yr.
Bobby Brink? The nation’s top scorer. Ethen Frank? The nation’s leading aim scorer. Matty Beniers, Nathan Smith and Ben Meyers — all Olympians and excellent two-way players on groups that are going to this year’s Frozen Four.
Dryden McKay, Devon Levi and Yaniv Parets all experienced record-location seasons as goaltenders, in various ways.
Minnesota defenseman Brock Faber, a different Olympian, had perhaps the most amazing NCAA Regional of any player, and could easily have been regarded as as nicely. Other non-Hobey finalists like Cole Guttman and Julian Napravnik could make a case.
North Dakota’s Jake Sanderson may be the greatest of all, but he skipped fifty percent the time for a person rationale or yet another.
In the conclude, the select was Trivigno mainly because of a mixture of all the things. He is a heart and soul player for a team that he experienced to carry offensively for much of the period. Trivigno completed 3rd in the country in scoring, and 11th in goals. Whilst Trivigno had a lot of good teammates, to be guaranteed, he did not have the exact same supporting forged that lots of of the aforementioned groups did — groups stuffed with superior-end gamers.
