The USAFA Hockey Banquet was held in Colorado Springs earlier today. Offensive Player of the month october-november - jacques lamoureau december-january - jacques lamoureau february-march - matt fairchild Defensive Player of the month october-november - andrew volkening december-january - greg flynn february-march - andrew volkening Offensive Player of the year - jacques lamoureau Defensive Player of the year - andrew volkening strength and conditioning award greg flynn Top seven awards Jim Bowman Award (scholar athlete) Michael Phillipich Most improved player (selected by teammates) Kevin Wright John Matchefts Award (fourth classman of the year) (selected by teammates) presented by Officer Representative mike van valkenberg to Scott Mathis Larry Cronk Award (most inspirational) (selected by teammates) presented by Larry's son Scott to Greg Flynn Defensive Player of the year presented by Athletics Director Hans Mueh to Greg Flynn Chuck Delich Award (mvp) (selected by teammates) Presentd by Chuck's son Phil to Andrew Volkening Vic Heyliger Award (dedication, character, leadership, work ethic) Presented by Commandant of Cadets Sam Cox to Michael Phillipich Next Year's Captains Jeff Hajner Brett Nylander Next Year's Assistant Captains Matt Fairchild Jacques Lamoureau Next Year's Unofficial Member of the Leadership Group (since goalies can't be captains) Andrew Volkening It was announced that former player and team physician Eric Nelson (1990-91) would be leaving the military to enter private practice. Approximate quips (i am not a reporter and i didn't have a tape recorder, so these may not be verbatim) When a reporter in bridgeport asked me if i thought AF could beat Michigan that afternoon, i told him we won over 25 games so far this year, we beat CC when they were a top 3 team, last year we beat DU when they were a top 4 team, We led Minnesota in the regional, we tied minnesota on their home ice, we took miami to overtime in the regional, we won our league tournament 3 years in a row, you're [ expletive deleted ] right i think we can beat michigan we have good players combine their efforts to be a great team while some opponents have great players who combine their efforts to be a good team [ talking about team chemistry and selflessness ] there are things people don't know about this team. I'm going to let this one out. Matt fairchild was named the MVP of the AHA tournament. In the locker room after the game, he gave the trophy to volks. you can buy anything at wal-mart except experience two years ago when picking a design for the AHA championship ring, I was i was torn between two designs. A player came in and i asked him which one he liked and the respons was that it didn't matter cuz we could choose the other desing next year. I played against this kids dad and he was a huge pain in the [ vernacular for rear end ]. not only could he score on me, but he'd ride me about it the rest of the game [ note i immediately thought of the slap shot scene leading to the hanrahan - dunlap fight ] and I though that if his kid was anything like his dad was, i wanted this kid on my team /"\ ASCII Ribbon | charlie shub (719) 255-3492 \ / Campaign Against | [log in to unmask] (mobile) 761-8778 X HTML in e-mail | http://cs.uccs.edu/~cdash (fax) 255-3369 / \ and news | University of Colorado at Colorado Springs