DU hockey’s Will Butcher wins the Hobey Baker Award
Butcher is a 2013 Avalanche draft pick.

Will Butcher is up for the Hobey. (Kim Klement/USA Today Sports)
University of Denver hockey captain and defenseman Will Butcher won the Hobey Baker Award, given every year to the top NCAA hockey player.
The announcement was made Friday during a ceremony at Navy Pier in Chicago, where the NCAA hockey championship is being held.
Butcher was chosen from 10 nominees and three finalists by a 27-person committee from three finalists. The other finalists were Northeastern University’s Zach Aston-Reese and Union College’s Mike Vecchion.
As the Denver Post’s Mike Chambers pointed out, a defenseman hasn’t won the Hobey Baker Award since 2009, and Butcher has certainly earned it. As of March 30, his 36 points 36 points were second nationally by a defenseman.
Butcher is a 2013 Avalanche draft pick, so maybe Denver will keep him around.

These five people will help select Denver’s next police and sheriff watchdog

Denver will open three more city-sponsored vaccination sites next week

Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan wrote the song of the pandemic four years ago

Denver is trying to produce ‘handshakes’ between people, cars and traffic signals

DIA wants $40 million in upgrades to its elevators, escalators and those things that help you move faster through terminals

It’s prime rib night at the local municipal golf course

Denver Public Library will reopen nine branches on March 9

You’ll have another 450 acres of prime Colorado real estate to frolic on when Denver adds its newest mountain park

One block in Denver’s COVID economy: The largely Latinx Westwood got help late in the pandemic, but businesses are holding strong

How Denver’s city elections might change

How can Denver recognize its once-thriving Chinatown?

Things to do in Denver this weekend, Feb. 26-28

Denver’s music venues, libraries, rec centers: Here’s what we know about what’s opening when

The Broadway bike ‘superhighway’ might be done sometime in 2023?

The city is considering funding an apartment complex that would offer services to unhoused people who have brain injuries

A pretty big tree comes down in Cherry Creek

Aurora police chief said trust between cops and residents is broken but declined to comment on punishment for officers involved in Elijah McClain’s death

How the CRUSH investigation came together, and why we reported it

Police will continue to patrol homeless sweeps, but Mayor Hancock wants civilians to play a larger role
