{"id":31279,"date":"2010-04-09T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2010\/04\/09\/merrimacks-da-costa-named-hockey-commissioners-rookie-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:57:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:57:58","slug":"merrimacks-da-costa-named-hockey-commissioners-rookie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2010\/04\/09\/merrimacks-da-costa-named-hockey-commissioners-rookie-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrimack’s Da Costa Named Hockey Commissioners’ Rookie of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
Merrimack forward Stephane Da Costa has been named the 2010 winner of the Hockey Commissioners’ Association Rookie of the Year award.<\/p>\n
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Stephane Da Costa (photo: Melissa Wade)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Da Costa helped lead the Warriors to their best finish since the 1993-94 season, with their first Hockey East appearance since 2004 and their first playoff victory since 1998. Da Costa amassed a team-high 45 points, and led Merrimack with 29 assists. He was also the first five-time Hockey East rookie of the month.<\/p>\n
Nationally, Da Costa’s 1.32 points per game was top among rookies and seventh overall.<\/p>\n
The HCA Rookie of the Year is selected by a vote of the 58 assistant coaching staffs in NCAA Division I hockey. Players receive five points for a first-place vote, three points for second and one for third. Rookies of the year in all six conferences were the nominees for the award.<\/p>\n
Runners-up were Jerry D’Amigo, Rensselaer\/ECAC; Jordan George, Bemidji State\/CHA; Danny Kristo, North Dakota\/WCHA; Andy Taranto, Alaska, CCHA; Chris Tanev, RIT\/Atlantic Hockey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Merrimack forward Stephane Da Costa has been named the 2010 winner of the Hockey Commissioners’ Association Rookie of the Year award. Stephane Da Costa (photo: Melissa Wade) Da Costa helped lead the Warriors to their best finish since the 1993-94 season, with their first Hockey East appearance since 2004 and their first playoff victory since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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