Sellar and O'Connor Earn ECAC Hockey Weekly Honors

ALBANY, N.Y. – Two members of the Dartmouth men's hockey team were honored with weekly league awards as announced by the ECAC Hockey office Monday afternoon.

Junior Shane Sellar was named the Player of the Week, while Drew O'Connor was tabbed as the Rookie of the Week for their strong performances against Harvard in the season-opening 7-6 overtime win on Saturday night.

Sellar posted a three-point night in the win, scoring the team's first goal of the game on the power play and then at the 3:40 mark of the third period to give Dartmouth the 5-4 lead. His biggest play of the evening, though, was his first assist of the season as he picked up the puck inside the Harvard blueline after a takeaway and fired a centering feed across the low slot to linemate Quin Foreman for the winner just 18 seconds into the overtime period.

For O'Connor, his first collegiate game could not have gone any better. Like Sellar, the freshman also recorded a three-point effort in the win as he dished out a pair of assists and had his first collegiate goal during a second-period breakaway. His first career point came on an assist of Will Graber's power-play goal with his second assist coming in the third period on a Clay Han point shot. His breakaway goal on a great breakout pass from classmate Harrison Markell with 7:11 remaining in the second period made it a 4-3 game heading into the third period and set up for the wild third that followed.

For Sellar, this was his second time winning ECAC Hockey Player of the Week after also being recognized last Feb. 13 after a six-point night (2-4-6) at RPI.

Sellar, O'Connor and the rest of the Big Green are back at home this week for ECAC Hockey games against No. 19 Princeton and No. 15 Quinnipiac.

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