Tim Taylor Award (ECAC Hockey)

Not to be confused with Tim Taylor Award (NCAA).

The Tim Taylor Award is an annual award given out at the conclusion of the ECAC Hockey regular season to the best coach in the conference as voted by the coaches of each ECAC team.^[1]

Tim Taylor Award

Sport	Ice hockey
Awarded for	The Coach of the Year in ECAC Hockey
History
First award	1987
Most wins	Mike Schafer (5)
Most recent	Rand Pecknold

The Coach of the Year was first awarded in 1987 and every year thereafter until 2007 when it was renamed in honor of long-time Yale head coach Tim Taylor^[2] after he had retired following the 2005–06 season.^[3]

The vote for the award was split in its second year, but not since. (as of 2020)

Award winners

Year Winner School 1986–87 Tim Taylor Yale 1987–88 Bill Cleary Harvard Mike Gilligan Vermont 1988–89 Joe Marsh St. Lawrence 1989–90 Terry Slater Colgate 1990–91 Mark Morris Clarkson 1991–92 Tim Taylor Yale 1992–93 Roger Demment Dartmouth 1993–94 Bruce Delventhal Union 1994–95 Bob Gaudet Brown 1995–96 Joe Marsh St. Lawrence 1996–97 Stan Moore Union 1997–98 Tim Taylor Yale 1998–99 Joe Marsh St. Lawrence 1999–00 Don Vaughan Colgate 2000–01 Mark Morris Clarkson 2001–02 Mike Schafer Cornell 2002–03 Mike Schafer Cornell 2003–04 Stan Moore Colgate

Year Winner School 2004–05 Mike Schafer Cornell 2005–06 Bob Gaudet Dartmouth 2006–07 Joe Marsh St. Lawrence 2007–08 Guy Gadowsky Princeton 2008–09 Keith Allain Yale 2009–10 Nate Leaman Union 2010–11 Nate Leaman Union 2011–12 Rick Bennett Union 2012–13 Rand Pecknold Quinnipiac 2013–14 Don Vaughan Colgate 2014–15 Greg Carvel St. Lawrence 2015–16 Rand Pecknold Quinnipiac 2016–17 Rick Bennett Union 2017–18 Mike Schafer Cornell 2018–19 Casey Jones Clarkson 2019–20 Mike Schafer Cornell 2020–21 Rand Pecknold Quinnipiac 2021–22 Rand Pecknold Quinnipiac

Winners by school School Winners Union 6 Cornell 5 St. Lawrence 5 Colgate 4 Quinnipiac 4 Yale 4 Clarkson 3 Dartmouth 2 Brown 1 Harvard 1 Princeton 1 Vermont 1

Multiple winners   Five-time winner Mike Schafer of Cornell Recipient Trophies Mike Schafer 5 Joe Marsh 4 Rand Pecknold 4 Tim Taylor 3 Rick Bennett 2 Bob Gaudet 2 Nate Leaman 2 Stan Moore 2 Mark Morris 2 Don Vaughan 2

References

General

• "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2013-08-04.
• "ECAC Awards and Honors" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Retrieved 2013-08-04.
• "NCAA (ECAC) Coach of the Year". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2013-08-04.

Specific

1. "Gostisbehere, Bodie, Carr earn spots on ECAC Hockey All-League Teams". Union Athletics. 2013-03-21. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
2. "ECAC Hockey Loses Legendary Coach". Union Athletics. 2013-04-28. Retrieved 2013-08-04.
3. "Tim Taylor Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2013-08-04.

External links

• ECAC Hockey Awards (Incomplete)