{"id":31244,"date":"2010-03-31T09:04:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2010\/03\/31\/butler-geoffrion-nyquist-form-2010-hobey-hat-trick\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:57:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:57:57","slug":"butler-geoffrion-nyquist-form-2010-hobey-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2010\/03\/31\/butler-geoffrion-nyquist-form-2010-hobey-hat-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler, Geoffrion, Nyquist Form 2010 Hobey Hat Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"
The nation’s scoring leader, the nation’s goals leader and the captain of one of the teams at the Frozen Four are the final three standing for the 2010 Hobey Baker Award.<\/p>\n
New Hampshire’s Bobby Butler, Wisconsin’s Blake Geoffrion and Maine’s Gustav Nyquist — all forwards — were announced as the Hobey Hat Trick finalists on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The award will be presented on April 9 at Detroit’s Ford Field, site of the Frozen Four.<\/p>\n
Butler, a senior, leads the country with 29 goals. Also a finalist for the Hockey Humanitarian Award, he was the winner of the Walter Brown Award as the top American-born player in New England and was Hockey East’s player of the year.<\/p>\n
At 53 points, he ranks behind only Nyquist on the national scoring list. He recently signed a free-agent contract with the NHL’s Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n