The WCHA announced most of its postseason awards this week, and MacNaughton Cup champion Minnesota State did quite well, not surprisingly.
Mike Hastings was named WCHA Coach of the Year for the fourth time, while Dryden McKay earned the league's Goaltender of the Year award for the second year in a row, forward Julian Napravnik won Offensive Player of the Year and defenseman Akito Hirose was named Rookie of the Year.
Other individual award winners were Bemidji State goaltender Zach Driscoll, who won Student-Athlete of the Year, while Defensive Player of the Year ended in a tie between BSU's Elias Rosen and Bowling Green's Will Cullen.
Only the WCHA's overall Player of the Year was not announced. The guess here is that McKay takes that hardware. We'll see.
Meanwhile, the All-WCHA Teams were also announced, and McKay and Napravnik were named to the first team. MSU's Nathan Smith made the second team, Hirose and Riese Zmolek were the third-team defensemen and Hirose and Jake Livingstone were the rookie-team D-men.
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