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Minnesota-Duluth forward Jack Connolly is the player of the year and North Dakota goalie Brad Eidsness has been named the outstanding student-athlete of the year in two of the major award winners announced Thursday by the WCHA.<\/p>\n

The league’s five other major individual awards went to Wisconsin defenseman Justin Schultz (defensive player of the year), Denver defenseman Joey LaLeggia (rookie of the year), Connolly (scoring champion), Minnesota netminder Kent Patterson (goaltending champion) and Michigan Tech coach Mel Pearson (coach of the year).<\/p>\n

In addition, the conference named three All-WCHA teams and an All-Rookie team.<\/p>\n

All-WCHA First Team<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Player<\/th>Position<\/th>Class<\/th>School<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Jack Connolly<\/td>F<\/td>Sr.<\/td>Minnesota-Duluth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nick Bjugstad<\/td>F<\/td>So. <\/td>Minnesota<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
J.T. Brown<\/td>F<\/td>So.<\/td>Minnesota-Duluth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Justin Schultz<\/td>D<\/td>Jr.<\/td>Wisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joey LaLeggia<\/td>D<\/td>Fr.<\/td>Denver<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kent Patterson<\/td>G<\/td>Sr.<\/td>Minnesota<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

All-WCHA Second Team<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Player<\/th>Position<\/th>Class<\/th>School<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Jaden Schwartz<\/td>F<\/td>So.<\/td>Colorado College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Drew Shore<\/td>F<\/td>Jr.<\/td>Denver<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jason Zucker<\/td>F<\/td>So.<\/td>Denver<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gabe Guentzel<\/td>D<\/td>Sr.<\/td>Colorado College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nate Schmidt<\/td>D<\/td>So.<\/td>Minnesota<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kenny Reiter<\/td>G<\/td>Sr.<\/td>Minnesota-Duluth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

All-WCHA Third Team<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Player<\/th>Position<\/th>Class<\/th>School<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mark Zengerle<\/td>F<\/td>So.<\/td>Wisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brock Nelson<\/td>F<\/td>So.<\/td>North Dakota<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Travis Oleksuk<\/td>F<\/td>Sr.<\/td>Minnesota-Duluth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nick Jensen<\/td>D<\/td>So.<\/td>St. Cloud State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ben Blood<\/td>D<\/td>Sr.<\/td>North Dakota<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Josh Thorimbert<\/td>G<\/td>So.<\/td>Colorado College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

WCHA All-Rookie Team<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Player <\/th>Position<\/th>School<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Kyle Rau<\/td>F<\/td>Minnesota<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jean-Paul Lafontaine<\/td>F<\/td>Minnesota State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jayson Megna<\/td>F<\/td>Nebraska-Omaha<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joey LaLeggia<\/td>D<\/td>Denver<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrew Prochno<\/td>D<\/td>St. Cloud State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Juho Olkinuora<\/td>G<\/td>Denver<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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