Brown's coach Bob Gaudet took a little bit more of low-key approach, talking about how his team has been banged-up for the last month of the season.
"We've been smelling exhaust fumes in the last month of the season," he said, "but we still got some good hockey left in us."
Brown's junior Mike Taggio also won honors as the ECAC's best defensive defenseman.
The banquet's keynote speaker was Joe Bertagna, the Executive Director of ECAC Hockey and Team USA's Assistant General Manager and Goaltending Coach during the recent Lillehammer Olympiad. He had some interesting things to says about America's Olympic hockey effort.
"We did fail," he said of Team USA. "But I still couldn't exactly tell you what went wrong."
Most relevant to Harvard, he noted his team's inability to avoid stupid penalties, and that even when the U.S. showed flashes of brilliance, it was still never able to put 60 solid minutes of hockey together.
This evening, whoever avoids committing those two flaws should win.