Lake Forest College’s Giacomin and Argiropoulos
Sweep NCHA Men’s Hockey Weekly Honors
Lake Forest College freshman Josh Giacomin (F - Calgary, Alberta) is the NCHA Men’s Offensive Player of the Week and senior teammate George Argiropoulos (G - Toronto, Ontario) is the NCHA Men’s Defensive Player of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday.
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Giacomin is the NCHA Offensive Player of the Week after recording back-to-back two-point performances to help Lake Forest win a pair of games and climb into first place in the NCHA South Division standings. Giacomin scored one goal, assisted on another, and was +4 in a 6-0 victory over #7/#6 Adrian Friday. He then scored the first two goals of Saturday’s 4-1 triumph over Trine, with the second-period tally standing up as the game-winner. The Foresters were short-handed for his assist on Friday and first score on Saturday.
Argiropoulos repeats as the NCHA Defensive Player of the Week against another deep field of nominees. Helping him rise to the top of the list was a shutout of #7/#6 Adrian College, snapping a streak dating back to January of 2015 (117 games) since the last time the Bulldogs were shut out. It was also the first win for the Foresters in the all-time series. Argiropoulos nearly posted a perfect weekend as Lake Forest won twice and moved into first place in the division standings. After stopping all 19 shots on goal in Friday’s 6-0 blanking of Adrian, he recorded 19 more saves in a 4-1 triumph over Trine. The only tally against him on the weekend was a 5-on-3 score with 4:05 remaining Saturday, giving him a 0.50 GAA and a .974 save percentage for the weekend.
2018-19 NCHA WEEKLY TOP PERFORMERS
Nikita Babintsev, Adrian
Despite an injury to his finger sustained in the USNTDP U-18 exhibition game, Babintsev made 14 saves in a 3-1 road win at Aurora in his season debut. It was his first career start on the road and third overall. He made three saves during a five-minute AC penalty-kill to help preserve a 2-1 lead late in the third period.
Trevor Boyd, Adrian
Boyd scored a power play goal and another shorthanded in Adrian’s 3-1 comeback win at Aurora. The school’s active career goal-scorer moves into fifth place on the school’s all-time list with 62--passing former two-year captain and 2018 All-American Mathew Thompson.
Clay Cross, Marian
Cross scored on the power play and then assisted Marian’s second goal as the Sabres tied with Finlandia.
Bo Didur, Concordia Wisconsin
Didur had 58 saves to help Concordia Wisconsin to two wins over the weekend. The freshman had 26 saves in the Falcons 4-2 win over St. Scholastica and had another 32 saves in the overtime 4-3 win over Northland. Didur had a save percentage of .921 on the weekend.
Rock Boynton, MSOE
Boynton was unbeaten in a pair of starts between the pipes for MSOE last week. He stopped 24 shots in 2-2 draw at Lawrence Tuesday and made 33 saves in win over St. Scholastica Saturday.
Marcus Gloss, Finlandia
Gloss stopped 34 shots and held Lawrence to 0-8 on the power play. On Saturday, he stopped 44 shots in a 2-2 OT tie with Marian.
Nick Guiney, Concordia Wisconsin
Guiney had three points in two games for the Falcons in wins over St. Scholastica and Northland. The sophomore had an assist in the 4-2 win over the Saints on Friday before assisting with the overtime game-winner against the Lumberjacks on Saturday. Guiney also had a goal of his own in the 4-3 win over Northland.
Brent Jones, Trine
Jones led Trine offensively over the weekend with three points as the team picked up an NCHA weekend split. On Friday, he helped cement the Thunder’s victory over Aurora with a goal and an assist. On Saturday, he added another assist on the team’s lone goal of the contest.
Hunter Kero, Finlandia
Kero had a goal and assist in Friday night’s 4-0 win. He then followed up with a solid game Saturday, finishing with 4 shots, plus/minus 1 and solid on special teams all weekend.
Stian Owens, MSOE
Owens scored a goal in each of the Raiders’ three games last week as MSOE went 1-1-1. He had a power-play go-ahead goal at Lawrence Tuesday and tallied the game-winner against St. Scholastica Saturday.
Hunter Vorva, Marian
Vorva put together a 1.44 goals against average to go with a .950 save percentage as Marian earned three points on the weekend. Vorva opened with a 32-save performance to defeat No. 6 St. Norbert at home for the first time in program history. He then made 25 saves to lead Marian to a tie against Finlandia. He also helped lead the penalty kill unit to a perfect weekend killing off 11 power plays.