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North Dakota’s Blake, Boston University’s Celebrini, Boston College’s Gauthier named Hobey Hat Trick finalists for 2024 award as college hockey’s top player

April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 by USCHO Staff

The Hobey Baker Memorial Award Committee has announced the three Hobey Baker Hat Trick finalists for the 2024 award, honoring college hockey’s top player. Alphabetically, they are Jackson Blake, a sophomore forward from North Dakota; Macklin Celebrini, a freshman forward from Boston University; and Cutter Gauthier, a sophomore forward from Boston College. The three finalists … Read more

One final straw poll before the Hobey Hat Trick is revealed

June 22, 2020March 29, 2016 by Chris Lerch

Michigan’s Kyle Connor stays at the top of the table.

Connor’s big weekend helps solidify spot atop Hobey Watch straw poll

August 24, 2020March 24, 2016 by Chris Lerch

This latest edition of Hobey Watch covers the latest straw poll of our writers, taken after the conference championships and before the NCAA regionals.

A reaction to the 10 finalists named for the Hobey Baker Award

August 24, 2020March 16, 2016 by Chris Lerch

The 10 include the top five that have been in earlier versions of our writers straw poll.

With some top contenders off last weekend, little changes in the Hobey Watch voting

August 24, 2020March 11, 2016 by Chris Lerch

Michigan’s Kyle Connor added three assists to his national-best point total last weekend.

Another freshman leads the way in mock balloting

August 24, 2020March 4, 2016 by Chris Lerch

Michigan’s Kyle Connor is in the lead in the race for the Hobey Baker Award, according to a panel of USCHO writers.

An effort to narrow the Hobey list to 10 ahead of Thursday’s announcement

March 17, 2015 by Todd D. Milewski

Candace Horgan and Chris Lerch make their picks for the players they think will be on the list of 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Award.

Talking through some of the candidates for the 2015 Hobey Baker Award

March 13, 2015 by Todd D. Milewski

Chris Lerch and Candace Horgan run through the list of players that have distinguished themselves this season, including Boston University’s Jack Eichel and Michigan’s Zach Hyman.

Some final thoughts before Johnny Gaudreau gets the award

April 11, 2014 by Elliot Olshansky

Happy Hobey Day, everyone! That’s right, the Hobey Baker Award will be presented Friday in its namesake’s hometown of Philadelphia, and that brings us to the final edition for 2014 of the USCHO Hobey Watch.

One tough decision in predicting the 2014 Hobey Hat Trick

August 24, 2020April 1, 2014 by Elliot Olshansky

One player is a given, one player seems likely and two more compete for the last spot in Elliot Olshansky’s picks.

Where the predictions missed, and what’s at stake before the vote takes place

August 24, 2020March 28, 2014 by Elliot Olshansky

Elliot Olshansky correctly picked six of the 10 Hobey Baker Award finalists, and he has some thoughts on where he went wrong.

Enough with the watch lists; here’s an effort at picking who’ll be among the 10 Hobey finalists

August 24, 2020March 19, 2014 by Elliot Olshansky

Elliot Olshansky takes a guess at the list that will be unveiled Thursday.

The locks, the near-locks and those playing for spots among the Hobey finalists

March 14, 2014 by Elliot Olshansky

The coaches pick the 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Award after this weekend’s action.

Some historical perspective in the Hobey case for Gaudreau

March 7, 2014 by Elliot Olshansky

The Boston College junior’s 1.88 points-per-game average is almost a third of a point ahead of his closest competitor, Greg Carey of St. Lawrence.

On Wisconsin’s Rumpel and this year’s crop of crease candidates

August 24, 2020February 28, 2014 by Elliot Olshansky

Is it possible that we could see as many as five netminders among the Hobey top 10? Elliot Olshansky says yes, but given the crop of talented skaters who are also in contention for the award, he wouldn’t expect it.