Lakehead Captain Joel Scherban was named a CIS Second Team All Canadian at tonight's CIS Telus University Cup Awards Banquet held in Edmonton.
This is the second year in a row that Scherban has been namedan All Canadian. Scherban won last year's Joseph E. Sullivan Award as the MVP in CIS men's hockey and he also has won the CIS Sportsman of the Year Award twice.
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2005-06 CIS Award Winners:
EDMONTON (CIS) Right-winger Kevin Baker of the Atlantic University Sport champion Acadia University Axemen is the Canadian Interuniversity Sport mens hockey player of the year for the 2005-06 season.
Baker of Kingston, Ont. is only the second Acadia player to receive the Senator Joseph A. Sullivan Trophy as season MVP since the inception of the award in 1975-76. He joins forward Duane Dennis who was honoured in 1993-94.
Other major award winners announced on Wednesday night during the TELUS University Cup Awards Gala at the Myer Horowitz Theatre on the campus of the University of Alberta were U of As Aaron Sorochan of Edmonton, who claimed the Clare Drake Award as rookie of the year, University of Saskatchewans Dean Beuker of Watson, Sask., who received the R.W. Pugh Award presented to the most sportsmanlike player, McGill Universitys Martin Raymond of Pierrefonds, Que., a first-time recipient of the Father George Kehoe Memorial Award as coach of the year, and Saint Marys Universitys David Chant of Toronto, who received the Dr. Randy Gregg Award recognizing his excellence in athletics, academics and community involvement.
Baker, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound forward claimed the AUS scoring title and tied for the CIS lead with 47 points in 28 conference games in his third and final campaign with the Axemen. His 24 goals were tops in the Atlantic and second in the nation only to Guelphs Jesse Pyatt, who had 26. Of his 24 tallies, nine were power-play markers, three game-winners, and six came by the way of a pair of hat tricks. Over the past two regular seasons, no player in the CIS has found the back of the net more often than Baker (48), who scored 24 times as well in 2004-05 to earn his first selection as an all-Canadian, claiming a spot on the second team. The 26-year-old kinesiology student led the Axemen to a first-place finish in the AUS standings (19-7-1-1) this season, and added four goals and 10 points in five playoff games to help Acadia capture its first conference banner since 1995-96.
A product of the Belleville Bulls of the OHL, Baker was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the seventh round of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft (193rd overall). He enjoyed his best season with the Bulls in 1998-99 when he tallied 44 goals and 81 points. Following his final year with Belleville in 1999-00, Baker played three professional seasons with the AHLs Lowell Lock Monsters, the ECHLs Johnstown Chiefs, and the AHLs Saint John Flames.
Kevin has been our offensive leader all season long, and has continued to produce at a torrid pace in the playoffs, said Acadia head coach Darren Burns, the AUS coach of the year. He is a pure goal scorer, who always seems to come up with the clutch goal, when we really need it. He is very deserving of this prestigious award.
Sorochan, a 6-foot-1, 178-pound netminder posted a 15-4-1 record, with a 2.32 GAA and a .908 save percentage in the regular season in his university debut, and followed up with four straight playoff victories to lead Alberta to its sixth straight Canada West title. The 21-year-old attended the Edmonton Oilers training camp last fall, and was named the top goaltender in the WHLs Eastern Conference in 2004-05.
Aaron has been a terrific addition to our program, solidifying an area that was a question mark entering the season, commented Golden Bears bench boss Eric Thurston, the Canada West coach of the year. Our guys play with a tremendous amount of confidence in