Hobey Baker Talk (Lamoureux focused)

Our friend Elliot Olshansky has a nice article about a possible Hobey Baker candidate, Air Force hockey player and former Grand Forks Central Knight Jacques Lamoureux. Being from North Dakota It would be a nice story to see a kid from Grand Forks, ND win the Hobey Baker. It would even be more interesting to see back to back brothers be in the running for the Hobey, however it is still early.

So, the last time I blogged, I got a very good question from the crowd - and feel free to leave more of those, by the way…love the comments - asking about Air Force forward Jacques Lamoureux.

After a month and a half of play this season, Lamoureux certainly has an impressive case. He’s leading the undefeated Falcons in scoring, and sharing the national points-per-game lead with teammate Brent Olson and Boston College’s Brock Bradford. Of course, there’s no guarantee he can keep it up - Lamoureux was held off the scoresheet this past weekend at Holy Cross - but watching the way Lamoureux has started the season reminds me of two former Hobey finalists.

One, of course, is his older brother, former North Dakota goaltender Jean-Philippe Lamoureux -more for name reasons than anything else - but we’ll get to him in just a second. The other, more fitting name that comes to mind is Eric Ehn.

Hobey Baker finalist Jones signs with the Wild.

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It will be interesting to see if Ryan Jones can find a place in the Wild line up, they could use some scoring touch. There are not a lot of former college hockey players playing for the Minnesota Wild. It would seem that Wild Coach Jacques Lemaire traditionally seems to favor Canadian major junior players over the college hockey players, this year there have been more ex-college hockey players than I can ever remember playing with the Minnesota Wild. Right now Carney, Hill, Parish Voros and Rolston are ex-college hockey currently playing with the Wild line up. As a Wild fan I hope he Jones finds a home in St. Paul.

Senior left wing Ryan Jones took his team's 4-3 overtime loss to Boston College on Sunday night in the title game of Northeast Regional hockey pretty hard.

Jones came to the postgame press conference in Worcester, Mass., red-eyed, still wearing his Miami (Ohio) jersey and breezers. Even his skates were still on. The two-year RedHawks captain said he was unsure if he could put on another uniform this season.

But Wednesday, the Wild announced they had signed Jones to a one-year contract that included a $293,000 signing bonus. His salary will be $625,000 if he plays a full season in the NHL, or $70,000 if he plays in the minors.

Minnesota selected him in the fourth round of the 2004 NHL draft. He was the 111th pick overall.

Panzer was... I mean JP Lamoureux was robbed...

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The candidates for the Hobey Baker Memorial Throphy were announced today and it seems that they missed a candidate. Apparently Nathan Gerbe's on the ice incidents and his suspension by Hockey East had no impact on Gerbe getting into the Hobey Hat Trick. I wonder if T.J. Hensick feels slighted after seeing the names today?

The Candidates are for the Hobey Hat Trick are:

Kevin Porter Michigan SR F 33-29-62
Nathan Gerbe Boston College JR F 30-30-60
Ryan Jones Miami SR F 31-18-49

I said before; It wouldn't matter if Oshie had 50 goals or Jean-Philippe Lamoureux had 10 shut outs the award is going to go to a player from the CCHA or Hockey East. Gee, I guess I wasn't that far off eh? This just proves that the college hockey media loves Hockey East and the CCHA. They should be happy with the results now, you got your candidates.

I think Kevin Porter from Michigan is a legitimate candidate for the Hobey Baker and I don't have a problem with Ryan Jones from Miami either but it would be interesting to see if Porter and Jones could put up the same numbers with they WCHA defenders drapped all over them. I believe that Jones and Porter would have simular numbers to T.J. Oshie.