CCHA Best Defensive Forward

The CCHA Best Defensive Forward is an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) regular season to the best defensive forward in the conference as voted by the coaches of each CCHA team.^[1]

CCHA Best Defensive Forward

Sport	Ice hockey
Awarded for	Best Defensive Forward in the CCHA
History
First award	1990
Most recent	Jackson Jutting Connor Milburn

The Best Defensive Forward was first awarded in 1990 and every year thereafter until 2013 when the original CCHA was dissolved as a consequence of the Big Ten Conference forming its men's ice hockey conference.^[2]

The CCHA was revived in 2020, with play resuming in the 2021–22 season, by seven schools that left the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, with an eighth school joining before play started. The revived league folded the Best Defensive Forward award into a new CCHA Forward of the Year award.^[3] The award was revived in 2024.^[4]

Award winners

Year Winner Position School 1989–90 Pete Stauber Left wing Lake Superior State 1990–91 Jeff Napierala Right wing Lake Superior State 1991–92 Pat Ferschweiler Right wing Western Michigan 1992–93 Chris Bergeron Center Miami 1993–94 Mike Stone Center Michigan 1994–95 Wayne Strachan Right wing Lake Superior State 1995–96 Bates Battaglia Left wing Lake Superior State 1996–97 John Madden Center Michigan 1997–98 Terry Marchant Center Lake Superior State 1998–99 Mike York Center Michigan State 1999–00 Shawn Horcoff Center Michigan State 2000–01 John Nail Right wing Michigan State 2001–02 Bobby Andrews Center Alaska-Fairbanks

Year Winner Position School 2002–03 Jed Ortmeyer Right wing Michigan 2003–04 Dwight Helminen Center Michigan 2004–05 Eric Nystrom Left wing Michigan 2005–06 Drew Miller Left wing Michigan State 2006–07 Nathan Davis Center Miami 2007–08 Justin Abdelkader Center Michigan State 2008–09 Tim Miller Left wing Michigan 2009–10 Tommy Wingels Center Miami 2010–11 Carl Hagelin Left wing Michigan 2011–12 Luke Glendening Right wing Michigan 2012–13 Dane Walters Right wing Western Michigan 2023–24 Jackson Jutting Forward Bemidji State Connor Milburn Forward Lake Superior State

Winners by school School Winners Michigan 8 Lake Superior State 6 Michigan State 5 Miami 3 Western Michigan 2 Alaska 1 Bemidji State 1

Winners by position Position Winners Center 11 Right wing 7 Left wing 6 Forward 2

See also

• CCHA Awards

References

General

• "CCHA Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
• "NCAA (CCHA) Best Defensive Forward". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2013-07-23.

Specific

1. "Henderson and Odegard Recipients of CCHA Major Awards". Alaska Nanooks. 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
2. "The CCHA is going away, but its history will have a final resting place". USCHO.com. 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
3. "CCHA to announce annual awards this week" (Press release). Central Collegiate Hockey Association. March 13, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
4. "Forwards Jutting and Milburn Share Defensive Honor". CCHA. March 12, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.

External links

• CCHA awards (incomplete) 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine