Western Collegiate Hockey Association

Bruce M. McLeod Commissioner Sara R. Martin Associate Commissioner Carol LaBelle-Ehrhardt Assistant Commissioner of Operations ™ Greg Shepherd Supervisor of Officials February 2, 2010/For Immediate Release Administrative Office Western Collegiate Hockey Association Denver’s Colborne and Cheverie, Minnesota’s Budish MSC 8302 University of Denver named Red Baron® WCHA Players of the Week for Feb. 2 2211 S. Josephine Street Denver, CO 80208-8302 MADISON, Wis. – The Western Collegiate Hockey Association today announced the players of the week for p: 303 871-4491. f: 303 871-4770 February 2, 2010. They are University of Denver forward Joe Colborne on offense, Denver goaltenderMarc email: [email protected] Cheverie on defense, and University of Minnesota forward Zach Budish as rookie.

Doug Spencer Associate Commissioner for Red Baron® WCHA Offensive Red Baron® WCHA Defensive Red Baron® WCHA Public Relations Player of the Week Player of the Week Rookie of the Week Public Relations Office Western Collegiate Hockey Association Joe Colborne Marc Cheverie Zach Budish 559 D’Onofrio Drive, Ste. 103 So., F, Denver JR., G, Denver Fr., F, Minnesota Madison, WI 53719-2096 p: 608 829-0100. f: 608 829-0200 University of Denver right winger Joe For the third time this , - Zach Budish, a first-year forward at email: [email protected] Colborne, who scored both game- tender Marc Cheverie of the Univer- the University of Minnesota, has been winning goals as the Pioneers fash- sity of Denver has been named the honored as the Red Baron® WCHA Home of a Record 36 Men’s ioned a two-game conference road Red Baron® WCHA Defensive Player Rookie of the Week for Feb. 2, 2010 sweep at North Dakota last weekend of the Week, this time for Feb. 2, 2010. as a result of his efforts in a two-game National Championship has been named Red Baron® WCHA He also earned the weekly honor on road series at league rival Alaska Teams Since 1951 Offensive Player of the Week for Feb. Oct. 27 (vs Minnesota) and on Nov. Anchorage last weekend. 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 2, 2010. Colborne also earned the 24 (vs North Dakota). A 6-3, 220-pound freshman from 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, weekly honor back on Nov. 24 when A 6-3, 180-pound junior from Cole Edina, Minn., and a draftee of the 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, DU won twice at home over UND. Harbour, Nova Scotia and a draftee of NHL’s Nashville Predators, Budish had 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, A 6-5, 195-pound sophomore from the NHL’s Florida Panthers, Cheverie five points in the Golden Gophers’ 1982, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1997, , Alberta, Colborne is in the backstopped visiting Denver to 2-0 split at Alaska Anchorage, includ- 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 midst of a career-best, eight-game and 4-2 victories over WCHA-rival ing the first four-point game by any point-scoring streak during which he North Dakota on Jan. 29-30 in Grand Gopher player this season. men’s Member teams has produced 12 points on five goals Forks. He stopped 55 of 57 shots on Budish had the game-winning University of Alaska Anchorage and seven assists. goal in the series for a .964 saves goal in last Friday’s 7-4 Minnesota Colorado College In the visiting Pioneers’ 2-0 shutout percentage, posted four shutout win and also had the first three-as- University of Denver victory over North Dakota last Friday periods, and blanked the Sioux on sist game by a Minnesota player this Michigan Tech University (Jan. 29) night, Colborne netted the all 13 of their weekend power-play season. He also scored the team’s University of Minnesota game-winner at 1:23 of the first pe- chances. lone goal in Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the University of Minnesota Duluth riod. He then came back in the series Last Friday night, Cheverie stopped Seawolves. Minnesota State University finale last Saturday (Jan. 30) evening all 33 shots he faced en route to In addition to his five scoring University of North Dakota to again score the game-winning goal Denver’s 2-0 victory over UND for his points in the series, Budish finished St. Cloud State University – this time at 17:52 of the second NCAA Div. 1-leading sixth shutout of with a +1 plus/minus rating and also University of Wisconsin period – and add one assist as Denver the season. He also stopped all nine fired five shots on goal. rallied from a 2-0 deficit to claim a 4-2 opponent power-play attempts. Through 28 games played this sea- 2010 Red Baron™ triumph over UND. His assist came on Then last Saturday (Jan. 30), Chev- son, Budish has seven goals and eight a goal that tied the game at 2-2 and it erie came back to stop 22 of 24 shots assists for 15 points to rank tied for WCHA Final Five was his seventh multiple-point game on goal in the Pioneers’ 4-2 win over fifth in scoring among Western Col- March 18, 19, 20 of the season. host North Dakota, giving Denver its legiate Hockey Association freshmen Xcel Energy Center • St. Paul, MN In addition to his three points, first four-game, regular-season series overall. He also leads the Minnesota Colborne finished the weekend vs the Fighting Sioux since 1992-93. team with a +7 plus/minus rating. visit us on the web at: with a team-best +3 plus/minus rat- On the season, Cheverie (14-3-3, Also nominated this week were: wcha.com ing, added eight hits, and had two 2.01 GAA, .932 Sv%) leads the WCHA Andrew Hamburg, F, CC; and Drew blocked shots. in goals-against average, saves per- Shore, F, DU. On the season, the centage and shutouts, and is second (NHL) draftee has 26 points (11g, 15a) in winning percentage (.775). in 24 games played, an average of Also nominated this week were: 1.08 points per game. Jon Olthuis, G, UAA; Ryan Lowery, D, Also nominated this week were: CC; and Kenny Reiter, G, UMD. Kevin Clark, F, UAA; Bill Sweatt, F, CC; Jordan Schroeder, F, UM; and Garrett Roe, F, SCSU.