List of Hockey East Best Defensive Defenseman

Hockey East Best Defensive Defenseman

Award details
Sport	Ice hockey
Given for	To the best defensive defenseman in the conference.
History
First award	1999
Most recent	Steve Santini

The Hockey East Best Defensive Defenseman is an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Hockey East regular season to the best defensive defenseman in the conference as voted by the head coaches of each Hockey East team.^[1]

The Best Defensive Defenseman was first bestowed in 1999 and every year thereafter.

Brian Dumoulin is the only defenseman to have won the award more than once, doing so in 2010–11 and 2011–12. The vote for the honor has been split once, in 2003–04. (As of 2013)

Award winners

Year	Winner	School
1998–99	Steve O'Brien	New Hampshire
1999–00	Mike Mottau	Boston College
2000–01	Bobby Allen	Boston College
2001–02	Chris Dyment	Boston University
2002–03	Cliff Loya	Maine
2003–04	Andrew Alberts	Boston College
	Prestin Ryan	Maine
2004–05	Tim Judy	Northeastern
2005–06	Peter Harrold	Boston College
2006–07	Sean Sullivan	Boston University
2007–08	Joe Charlebois	New Hampshire
2008–09	Louis Liotti	Northeastern
2009–10	Justin Braun	Massachusetts
2010–11	Brian Dumoulin	Boston College
2011–12	Brian Dumoulin	Boston College
2012–13	Patrick Wey	Boston College
2013–14	Josh Manson	Northeastern
2014–15	Mike Paliotta	Vermont
2015–16	Steve Santini	Boston College

Winners by school

School	Winners
Boston College	8
Northeastern	3
Boston University	2
Maine	2
New Hampshire	2
Massachusetts	1
Vermont	1

See also

• Hockey East Awards

References

General

• "Hockey East Awards". Hockey East Online. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
• "Hockey East Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
• "Hockey East Best Defensive Defenseman". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2013-08-18.

Specific

1. "UMaine's Abbott named Hockey East Player of the Year, Hobey Baker finalist". The Maine Campus. 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2013-08-18.

External links

• Hockey East Awards (Incomplete)