The junior from Burlington, Ontario has a D-III men's hockey best .948 Save Percentage and has the second best Goals Against Average at 1.52. In conference games, he has the best GAA at 1.50 and the best Save Percentage at .947. The only reason that he didn't get on any NESCAC All-Conference teams his freshman year was due to the building he seeks to take the Continentals in a few weeks: the historic Utica Memorial Auditorium or "The Aud", the site of the DIII men's hockey 2017 Frozen Phour. Buitenhuis was bum rushed in his third ever colelgiate game in a thanksgiving weekend tilt against the Utica Pioneers in 2014. He never fully recovered that season from the concussion and played only twice more all season.
Boots becomes the second goaltender to ever win the honor, following Amherst's Jonathan La Rose, who took the then Lord Jeffs (now...the...well, we'll see) to the Final Four in 2012 before losing to Oswego in an OT thriller in the national semifinals. He is also the third Continental and first since Joe Houk won the award in 2011 and then followed Norm Bazin to UMass-Lowell. Gus Katsuras is the only mutliple time winner (Boots has a senior season left, though, not saying, just sayin') having won the honor in 2005 and 2006.
Speaking of Norm...Rob Haberbusch won Coach of the Year, becoming the first Cont coach to win such honors since Norm Bazin won it back-to-back years in 2010 and 11. Haberbusch led the Continentals to their second ever number one seed in the conference tournament, their first semifinal appearance since 2010 and the first time they will ever host NESCAC championship weekend.
Elsewhere on the First Team All-NESCAC is the forward junior trio of David Italiano from Williams, Anthony Sabitsky from Trinity, and Brandon Willett from Hamilton. Italiano makes his first all-conference appearance - as do seven others of the twelve selections - and leads the NESCAC in scoring thus far with 31 points (12-19-31). Sabitsky, a former All-NESCAC Second Team selection last year, leads the Bantams with sixteen goals. Hamilton will be without their leading goal scorer Willett, who went down with a season ending leg injury in the final weekend of the regular season.
Back on the blueline first team are a pair of elder statesmen in Williams senior Frankie Mork and Colby senior Jack Burton. Mork, a smooth passing blueliner from Minnesota, bookends his career with NESCAC selecitons having made the second team as a frosh. Mork was featured in this week's Williams Record, and you should certainly check it out, tout suite, right here.
Burton had 22 points for the Muels (6-16-22) and becomes the first Colby player to make the first team since 2008. The Mules, who were upset by seventh seed Wesleyan last weekend in the quarters, finished second in the regular season and had their first home playoff game since they finished first in that 2007-08 season.
Burton had 22 points for the Muels (6-16-22) and becomes the first Colby player to make the first team since 2008. The Mules, who were upset by seventh seed Wesleyan last weekend in the quarters, finished second in the regular season and had their first home playoff game since they finished first in that 2007-08 season.
The second team had all first timers except for Trinity senior Senior Orlando, who made the First Team last season. He's joined up front by Quebecois assassin and Eph Roberto Cellini, who is the only Canadian not on the Hamilton roster to make All-NESCAC, and Amherst's only selection, junior Thomas Lindstromm, whose stats aren't overwhelming (7-8-15), but whose all-around game is rock solid. Hard shooting blueliner and Arizona native Jon Carkeek from Hamilton joines Wesleyan's only selection, sophomore Chad Malinowski on the back line. Wesleyan's 'Walker Harris didn't make the All-Conference team, but he was selected as the Rookie of the Year, the third Cardinal to earn such honors.
Tufts had its only selection in net with Second Team goalie Nik Nugnes. The junior started the season in a platoon with Mason Pulde until Pulde went down with injury and Nugnes continued on to the tune of the third best GAA in league play at 1.92 and the second best Save Percentage at .940 in 14 NESCAC games.
Bowdoin, Conn College and Middlebury, the 8th, 9th and last place teams respectively, failed to place a player on either team. It was the first time since 2001 that a Polar Bear failed to make an All-NESCAC team.
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Source: http://www.nescac.com/sports/mice/2016-17/honors/allconference
What does Satan have to do with the All-NESCAC teams? Absolutely nothing, but like the NESCAC All-Stars, this Mississippi All-Stars' track delivers the goods.
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