Laugh if you will, but I'd like to nominate Tripp Tracy for some sort of ecac recognition. Before you shake your head consider the following. I know he's been much maligned, and yes, I'm a Harvard fan, natch, but I think there are some good reasons. 1) he was the top ECAC goalie or near the top for virtually the entire season, and helped keep Harvard as the lowest GAA in the league up until the last two weekends. 2) There were a number of losses, dreadful games, bad goals, _but_ of the seven defensemen who saw consistent play, there were 3 freshman; of the upperclassman only one was a "natural" (i.e. from childhood) defenseman; and Brian Lonsinger (a converted forward and steady blueliner) played most of the season with a twice dislocated season. My point is that this was not the tight and fairly impenetrable defense seen the last two or three seasons, and from where I sat this accounted for more of the bad goals, lopsided games, etc. than Tracy. The games I saw, by and large, Tripp outperformed the defense, and even Tim Thomas gets bombarded some nights (like when BU's around). There were definitely games that Tracy kept Harvard in. (I'm thinking of the home game vs. Brown as one example.) Finely, correct me if I'm wrong, but Harvard has had the top ECAC goalie, at least stats-wise, but I'd argue beyond that, for the last three years (94-Israel, 93-Tracy, 92-Roy, not to mention Roy in '89). They don't get recognition because 1) they played in rotation, and thus saw relatively fewer games; and 2) they played in front of a tight defense, and/or enough offense to cover for the defense. OK, well this year there is neither rotation, defense (not even offense for that matter). So how can Tracy be ignored? Sandy