NCHC Defensive Forward of the Year

The NCHC Defensive Forward of the Year is an annual award given out at the conclusion of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference regular season to the best defensive forward in the conference as voted by the coaches of each NCHC team.^[1]

NCHC Defensive Forward of the Year

Sport	Ice hockey
Awarded for	The Best Forward in the NCHC
History
First award	2014
Most recent	Noah Laba

The Defensive Forward of the Year was first awarded in 2014 and is a successor to the Best Defensive Forward which was discontinued after the conference dissolved due to the 2013–14 NCAA conference realignment.^[2][3][4]

Award winners

Year	Winner	School
2013–14	Nic Dowd	St. Cloud State
2014–15	Mark MacMillan	North Dakota
2015–16	Sean Kuraly	Miami
2016–17	Dominic Toninato	Minnesota–Duluth
2017–18	Rhett Gardner	North Dakota
2018–19	Justin Richards	Minnesota Duluth
2019–20	Justin Richards	Minnesota Duluth
2020–21	Shane Pinto	North Dakota
2021–22	Connor Ford	North Dakota
2022–23	Jami Krannila	St. Cloud State
2023–24	Noah Laba	Colorado College

Winners by school School Winners North Dakota 4 Minnesota Duluth 3 St. Cloud State 2 Colorado College 1 Miami 1

See also

• NCHC Awards
• Best Defensive Forward

References

1. "Archibald, Dowd, LaLeggia Headline NCHC Award Winners". NCHC Hockey. 2014-03-20. Retrieved 2014-04-19.
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. "NCHC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. March 6, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
4. "Prow, Berry Capture NCHC's Top Honors at Awards Celebration". 17 March 2016.

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