Men's Hockey | 3/31/2022 11:32:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS – Ben Meyers is heading to Boston with the Gopher men's hockey program for the 2022 Frozen Four and he will now do so as one of three Hobey Baker Hat Trick finalists, the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Committee announced on Tuesday.A native of Delano, Minn., Meyers is the second Gopher Hockey player to be named a Hobey Baker Hat Trick finalist after Jordan Leopold in 2002 (the first year the final three candidates was announced) – Leopold went on to win the honor before leading the Gophers to a national championship that season and is Minnesota's most recent Hobey Baker Award winner after Neal Broten (1981), Robb Stauber (1988) and Brian Bonin (1996).
The three finalists (Meyers, Denver's Bobby Brink, Minnesota State's Dryden McKay) were selected from the initial list of Top Ten candidates by the 30-member selection committee and an additional round of online fan balloting to determine this year's Hobey Baker Award winner. Criteria for the award includes: displaying outstanding skills in all phases of the game; strength of character on and off the ice; sportsmanship and scholastic achievements. This year's Hobey Baker Award winner will be announced Friday, April 8, 2022 live on NHL Network beginning at 5:00 p.m. CT.
The Big Ten Player of the Year and U.S. Olympian has led the Gophers back to the NCAA Frozen Four for the first time since 2014 after winning the NCAA Worcester Regional last weekend. Minnesota's captain led the regional with four points (one goal, three assists) and scored the overtime winner against defending national champion UMass on Friday to earn a spot on the All-Regional Team.
Meyers leads Minnesota with 17 goals and 41 points (both career highs for the junior) in 33 games as the first Gopher to post 40 or more points in a season since All-Americans Rem Pitlick (45) and Tyler Sheehy (41) in 2018-19. In 101 games with Minnesota, Meyers has tallied 95 points (39 goals, 56 assists). Meyers has found the scoresheet in 24 of 33 games this season including 13 multi-point games.
He now has 15 points (six goals, nine assists) in seven games since returning from the Olympics with multi-point performances in six of those games. The junior also carries a career-long eight-game point streak into the Frozen Four while the Big Ten regular-season champions have won 11 of their last 12 games and six in a row away from 3M Arena at Mariucci.
With Minnesota, Meyers takes the ice in every game situation and leads a team that ranks fourth nationally in offense (3.6 goals per game) and 10th nationally in defense (2.3 goals against per game) -- all while playing one of the hardest schedules in college hockey. At the NCAA Worcester Regional, Meyers and the Gophers held Ethen Frank (nation's leading goal scorer), Bobby Trivigno (third most points in the nation) and Drew Worrad (sixth most points in the nation) to a combined one assist.
Meyers was named the 2021-22 Big Ten Player of the Year and a unanimous First Team All-Big Ten selection after leading Minnesota to the Big Ten regular-season championship (Minnesota's fifth in the nine-year history of the Big Ten Conference) and an NCAA tournament appearance for the second-straight year.
The Frozen Four won't be the only big stage Meyers has played on this year as the forward made his USA Hockey debut as one of four Gophers on the 2022 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team in Beijing. He proceeded to finish second among U.S. scorers with four points (two goals, two assists) in four games.
A two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection (earning the honor every year he has been eligible), Meyers holds a 3.54 cumulative grade point average while majoring in entrepreneurial management in the Carlson School of Management.
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