Boston College’s Demko gets Mike Richter Award

Thatcher Demko led the nation with 10 shutouts this season (photo: Melissa Wade).

TAMPA, Fla. — Boston College’s Thatcher Demko was named Friday the 2016 winner of the Mike Richter Award as Division I men’s college hockey’s top goaltender.

Demko, a junior, led the nation with 10 shutouts this season, including a stretch of six in seven games between Oct. 16 and Nov. 8.

He was eighth nationally with a 1.88 GAA and fifth with a .935 save percentage.

A second-round pick of the Vancouver Canucks in the 2014 NHL Draft, Demko beat out four other finalists for the award: UMass-Lowell’s Kevin Boyle, North Dakota’s Cam Johnson, St. Cloud State’s Charlie Lindgren and Yale’s Alex Lyon.

More coverage of the Richter Award to come.

Boston College's Demko gets Mike Richter Award

Thatcher Demko led the nation with 10 shutouts this season (photo: Melissa Wade).

TAMPA, Fla. — Boston College’s Thatcher Demko was named Friday the 2016 winner of the Mike Richter Award as Division I men’s college hockey’s top goaltender.

Demko, a junior, led the nation with 10 shutouts this season, including a stretch of six in seven games between Oct. 16 and Nov. 8.

He was eighth nationally with a 1.88 GAA and fifth with a .935 save percentage.

A second-round pick of the Vancouver Canucks in the 2014 NHL Draft, Demko beat out four other finalists for the award: UMass-Lowell’s Kevin Boyle, North Dakota’s Cam Johnson, St. Cloud State’s Charlie Lindgren and Yale’s Alex Lyon.

More coverage of the Richter Award to come.