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Canes prospect named Hobey Baker candidate
by David Lee on 03/21/09 at 10:43 AM ET
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Yesterday, the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation announced a list of ten candidates for the 2009 Hobey Baker Award. The award is given annually to the most outstanding NCAA men’s ice hockey player as voted by the 25-member board. Hurricanes prospect Jamie McBain is one of the candidates.
The 21-year old defenseman was selected by Carolina in the second round of the 2006 NHL entry draft and headed for the University of Wisconsin. This season, he led all Badgers in scoring with 36 (7/29) points in 39 games. This was the second highest point total by a defenseman in the entire NCAA. He was also named the Western Collegiate Hockey Association player of the year.
The Award is named after Hobart Baker, who was a football and hockey standout at Princeton University in the 1910s. He won one national football championship and two national hockey championships. He was killed in a military plane crash just after the end of WWI. Baker is the only member of both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Fans are invited to cast their on-line ballots, but unlike the NHL ASG, fan balloting accounts for just 1% of the total vote. This group of ten will be reduced to three finalists on April 2, and the award will be presented on April 10.
No Badger has ever won the Hobey Baker.
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David Lee is a restaurant manager with an unused degree in political science. He can be found at Carolina Hurricanes games, Scrabble tournaments and indie-rock shows. Sometimes, all in the same day.
David has contributed to CBC.ca for their Stanley Cup playoff coverage in 2006 and to the New York Times Slapshot blog for theirs in 2008. Red and Black Hockey was founded in July of 2005.
