Elliott Earns Fourth WCHA Award in Five Weeks
December 06, 2005 | Men's Hockey
Goaltender Brian Elliott (Newmarket, Ontario) continued his spectacular play last weekend for the No. 1 Badgers and earned his fourth WCHA Defensive Player of the Week honor in the last five weeks. He shares this week's award with Denver junior defenseman Matt Carle.
Already the CSTV/Hockey Commissioners' Association National Player of the Month for November, Elliott continued his stellar stretch by stopping 67 of Minnesota's 70 shots (.957 save percentage) in the Badgers road sweep last weekend. Elliott allowed a season-high three goals in the Badgers' 4-3 win last Friday, but tied his season-high with 35 saves. Then Elliott earned his second shutout of the season and the fifth of his career with 32 saves in the UW's 4-0 win to complete the sweep on Saturday.
The sweep was Wisconsin's first over Minnesota in Minneapolis since Feb. 25-26, 2000 and his shutout was the first for a UW goaltender at Minnesota since Nov. 12, 1983, a span of 100 games.
Elliott is now 13-1-2 on the season for the first place Badgers, and leads both the nation (Div. 1) and the WCHA in goals-against average at 1.42 and save percentage at .945 over 970:13 minutes of playing time. He was also named the league 's defensive player of the week on Nov. 7 (co-), Nov. 14 and Nov. 28.
Carle collected assists on seven of Denver's nine goals in a sweep over Colorado College to share the award.
Also nominated this week were: Jordan Parise, G, UND and Bobby Goepfert, G, SCSU.
