{"id":86670,"date":"2018-04-06T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=86670"},"modified":"2020-08-24T14:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:44:43","slug":"minnesota-duluths-perunovich-gets-tim-taylor-award-as-nations-top-rookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2018\/04\/06\/minnesota-duluths-perunovich-gets-tim-taylor-award-as-nations-top-rookie\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Duluth&#8217;s Perunovich gets Tim Taylor Award as nation&#8217;s top rookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018032319-55-562341-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Perunovich led the nation&#8217;s corps of freshmen defensemen with 36 points (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scott Perunovich&#8217;s impressive rookie season at Minnesota Duluth has added a national award.<\/p>\n<p>Perunovich was named the winner of the 2018 Tim Taylor Award for the top first-year player in Division I men&#8217;s hockey.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s only the second defenseman to win the award in its 12-year history.<\/p>\n<p>Perunovich, who has helped the Bulldogs to the national championship game Saturday against Notre Dame, has 11 goals and 36 points in 40 games.<\/p>\n<p>He ranks eighth nationally among defensemen in scoring and tops among freshmen defensemen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We certainly knew he had the offensive ability and I&#8217;m not surprised that he is where he is,&#8221; Bulldogs coach Scott Sandelin said in a statement. &#8220;He does surprise me with some of the plays he makes game in and game out. 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Overall, it&#8217;s probably a little more than we expected as far as the kind of year, but I&#8217;m not surprised he&#8217;s done what he&#8217;s done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota State forward Jake Jaremko was the runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>The award, presented by the Hockey Commissioners Association, is selected from among the six conference rookies of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s only the second defenseman to win the award in its 12-year history (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":111942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[812],"coauthors":[901],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minnesota Duluth&#039;s Perunovich gets Tim Taylor Award as nation&#039;s top rookie - 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