Third-year goaltender Reilly Pickard has been named an AUS first team all-star for the first time in his career. The Halifax, N.S. native was second amongst all goalies this year with a save percentage of .921 and third with a goals against average of 2.84.Â
A mechanical engineering major, he started and played in 12 of the Tigers 23 regular season games this season, allowing 34 total goals.
In his 10th season leading the Â鶹´«Ã½ Tigers men’s hockey team, Chris Donnelly has been chosen by his peers as the 2021-22 AUS coach of the year.
After finishing the 2019-20 season in seventh place, with an 8-19-1-2 record, this year Donnelly guided the Tigers to finish third in the conference, with an 11-11-1-0 record.
In the 2021-22 regular season, Â鶹´«Ã½ scored an average of 3.35 goals per game, had the second-best penalty kill percentage in the league (84.7%) and second-highest save percentage (.903). The Tigers also led the conference with four short-handed goals.
Donnelly is the first Tigers coach to win the Bob Boucher Trophy since Fabian Joseph in 2000-01. He now becomes the Atlantic conference nominee for the Father George Kehoe Memorial Award as the U SPORTS coach of the year.