CCHA Best Offensive Defenseman

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| sport = Ice hockey

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| givenfor = Best Offensive Defenseman in the CCHA

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| first = 1990

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| last = 2013

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| mostrecent = Jacob Trouba

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The CCHA Best Offensive Defenseman was an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) regular season to the best offensive defenseman in the conference as voted by the coaches of each CCHA team.{{cite news|title=Henderson and Odegard Recipients of CCHA Major Awards|url=http://www.alaskananooks.com/news/2013/3/23/MHOCKEY_0323132240.aspx|publisher=Alaska Nanooks|date=2013-03-22|accessdate=2013-07-23}}

The Best Offensive Defenseman 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.{{cite news|title=The CCHA is going away, but its history will have a final resting place|url=http://www.uscho.com/2013/03/06/the-ccha-is-going-away-but-its-history-will-have-a-final-resting-place/|publisher=USCHO.com|date=2013-03-06|accessdate=2013-07-23}}

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 chose to fold its previous awards for Best Offensive and Best Defensive Defenseman into a single CCHA Defenseman of the Year award.

Four players received the award two separate times, each doing so in consecutive years. Additionally, Andy Greene is the only defenseman to win both the 'Best Offensive' and 'Best Defensive' Defenseman in the same year (2005–06).

Award winners

=Winners by school=

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Michigan State6
Miami4
Bowling Green3
Michigan3
Ferris State2
Lake Superior State2
Northern Michigan2
Alaska1
Nebraska-Omaha1

See also

References

=General=

  • {{cite news|title=CCHA Awards|url=http://www.augenblick.org/chha/ccha_awd.html|publisher=College Hockey Historical Archives|accessdate=2013-07-24}}
  • {{cite news|title=NCAA (CCHA) Best Defensive Defenseman|url=http://www.eliteprospects.com/awards.php?award=NCAA%20%28CCHA%29%20Best%20Offensive%20Defenseman|publisher=Elite Prospects|accessdate=2013-07-24}}

= Specific =

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