Wednesday, February 24, 2010

BCHL Announces 2009/10 Season Award Recipients:

BCHL announces 2009/10 Season Award recipients

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - Submitted by BCHL Media

The British Columbia Hockey League has announced its Coastal and Interior Conference Award Winners for the 2009/10 season.

Leading the way as Most Valuable Players are Mitch MacMillan of the Alberni Valley Bulldogs (Coastal Conference) and Denver Manderson of the Penticton Vees (Interior Conference), who each led their respective clubs to outstanding records while posting impressive offensive numbers.

MacMillan led the BCHL in goals with 61 and paced all Coastal scorers with 93 points. MacMillan's Bulldogs were the Coast's top team, improving by 53 points from last to first in the conference standings. The 20-year old also became the first BCHL player since Kyle Turris to score 50 goals in less than 50 games.

Manderson held a wide lead in the league scoring race before suffering an injury in late January. The Fergus, ON product finished third in BCHL scoring with 113 points despite being out of the line-up for 10 games, and led the league in points-per-game with 2.3. Manderson also captained the Vees to a record of 48-8-0-4, good for second in the Interior Conference and a third-overall finish in the CJHL's National Rankings.

The full list of BCHL Award Winners appears below:

The following awards were voted on by coaches from the British Columbia Hockey League's 17-member teams:

Most Valuable Player (Vern Dye Memorial Trophy):

Coastal Conference: Mitch MacMillan, Alberni Valley Bulldogs
Interior Conference: Denver Manderson, Penticton Vees

Top Defenceman:

Coastal Conference: (Tie) Mat Bodie, Powell River Kings, and Jordan Heywood, Victoria Grizzlies
Interior Conference: Brendan Ellis, Westside Warriors

Rookie of the Year (Bruce Allison Memorial Trophy):

Coastal Conference: Mark MacMillan, Alberni Valley Bulldogs
Interior Conference: Beau Bennett, Penticton Vees

Most Sportsmanlike Player (Bob Fenton Trophy):

Coastal Conference: (Tie) Mike Hammond, Cowichan Valley Capitals, and Kevin Ross, Alberni Valley Bulldogs
Interior Conference: Trever Hertz, Quesnel Millionaires

Coach of the Year (Joe Tenant Memorial Trophy):

Coastal Conference: Nolan Graham, Alberni Valley Bulldogs
Interior Conference: Mark Ferner, Vernon Vipers

The following awards were determined based on accumulated statistics from the 2009/10 British Columbia Hockey League season:

Top Scorer (Brett Hull Trophy):

120 points - (Tie) Beau Bennett, Penticton Vees, and Mark Zengerle, Salmon Arm SilverBacks

Top Goaltender:

Blake Voth, Vernon Vipers

(Awarded to the player with the lowest goals-against average of all goaltenders with a minimum of 1000 minutes played)

Top Goaltending Duo (Wally Forslund Trophy):

Blake Voth and Graeme Gordon, Vernon Vipers

(Awarded to the goaltending duo that combines to post the lowest goals-against average during the British Columbia Hockey League's regular season)

Chevrolet Cup:

Vernon Vipers

(Awarded to the team that accumulates the most points during the British Columbia Hockey League's regular season)

TEAM Radio Broadcaster of the Year:

Todd Miller, Vernon Vipers

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