List of CCHA Best Defensive Forward

CCHA Best Defensive Forward

Award details
Sport	Ice hockey
Given for	Best Defensive Forward in the CCHA
History
First award	1990
Final award	2013
Most recent	Dane Walters

The CCHA Best Defensive Forward was an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) regular season to the best defensive forward in the conference as voted by the coaches of each CCHA team.^[1]

The Best Defensive Forward was first awarded in 1990 and every year thereafter until 2013 when the CCHA was dissolved as a consequence of the Big Ten Conference forming its men's ice hockey conference.^[2]

Award winners

Year Winner Position School 1989–90 Pete Stauber Left Wing Lake Superior State 1990–91 Jeff Napierala Right Wing Lake Superior State 1991–92 Pat Ferschweiler Right Wing Western Michigan 1992–93 Chris Bergeron Center Miami 1993–94 Mike Stone Center Michigan 1994–95 Wayne Strachan Right Wing Lake Superior State 1995–96 Bates Battaglia Left Wing Lake Superior State 1996–97 John Madden Center Michigan 1997–98 Terry Marchant Center Lake Superior State 1998–99 Mike York Center Michigan State 1999–00 Shawn Horcoff Center Michigan State 2000–01 John Nail Right Wing Michigan State

Year Winner Position School 2001–02 Bobby Andrews Center Alaska-Fairbanks 2002–03 Jed Ortmeyer Right Wing Michigan 2003–04 Dwight Helminen Center Michigan 2004–05 Eric Nystrom Left Wing Michigan 2005–06 Drew Miller Left Wing Michigan State 2006–07 Nathan Davis Center Miami 2007–08 Justin Abdelkader Center Michigan State 2008–09 Tim Miller Left Wing Michigan 2009–10 Tommy Wingels Center Miami 2010–11 Carl Hagelin Left Wing Michigan 2011–12 Luke Glendening Right Wing Michigan 2012–13 Dane Walters Right Wing Western Michigan

Winners by school School Winners Michigan 8 Lake Superior State 5 Michigan State 5 Miami 3 Western Michigan 2 Alaska 1

Winners by position Position Winners Center 11 Right wing 7 Left wing 6

See also

• CCHA Awards

References

General

• "CCHA Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
• "NCAA (CCHA) Best Defensive Forward". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2013-07-23.

Specific

1. "Henderson and Odegard Recipients of CCHA Major Awards". Alaska Nanooks. 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
2. "The CCHA is going away, but its history will have a final resting place". USCHO.com. 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2013-07-23.

External links

• CCHA awards (incomplete)