Clark, Yau and O'Connor Earn 2018-19 All-Ivy League Honors

HANOVER, N.H. – Three members of the Dartmouth men's hockey team were named as 2018-19 All-Ivy League selections, the conference office announced Wednesday afternoon.

Junior goaltender Adrian Clark was named to the First Team, while senior defenseman Connor Yau and freshman forward Drew O'Connor were named to the Second Team.

Clark becomes the first Big Green goalie since James Mello in 2011 to earn first-team honors in the Ancient Eight. He did so after a strong junior campaign, his first as the Dartmouth starter.

No goalie played more in Ivy League play this season than Clark, who was between the pipes for 532:15 of action over a league-high nine games. His five wins were more than any other netminder in the 10 Ivy games this season, while his 2.25 goals-against average and .924 save percentage were top-three and led all starters.

Clark finished with a league-best three shutouts over the course of the Ivy season with two on the road. He became the first Dartmouth goalie to ever post a pair of shutouts against Yale in the same season and the first to do so in New Haven in nearly seven decades when he stopped everything the Bulldogs threw at him in November. It was also the first shutout of Yale by the Big Green anywhere since a 1979 game in Hanover.

Yau was named to the second team on the back of a solid season as Dartmouth's top blueliner, anchoring the defense and quarterbacking the power play. Through the regular season, Yau was the Big Green's leader in assists and plus/minus, all while logging heavy minutes across all facets of the game. Heading into the league quarterfinals, the Illinois native has a career-high 15 points and 13 assists. He is two points shy of 50 for his career, a feat last accomplished by a Dartmouth defenseman in 2010 when Evan Stephens reached the total.

O'Connor earned second-team honors for his impressive rookie season in Hanover. The only freshman to earn a spot on either the first or second team, the New Jersey native and Dartmouth power forward was a force in 2018-19. His 16 goals this season are second nationally amongst Division I freshmen, while the most in ECAC Hockey. That goal-scoring touch is coming at the perfect time, as his six goals in March are the most by anyone in the nation and twice as many as any other rookie in the country.

His 16 goals are tied for third-most ever by a Big Green freshman and the highest total by a Dartmouth rookie in more than a decade (Nick Johnson: 18 in 2004-05).

Heading into the Harvard series, O'Connor is on a five-game goal-scoring streak with six markers in that stretch. He is currently the two-time reigning ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week, an honor he has claimed three times in his first season, the most of any first-year player in the conference.

Three players earning All-Ivy League recognition is the most since Tyler Sikura (1st), Mike Keenan (1st) and Matt Lindblad (2nd) were honored in 2012-13.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Adam Fox (Jr., D – Jericho, N.Y.)

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Casey Dornbach, Harvard (Fr., F – Edina, Minn.)

COACH OF THE YEAR
Mike Schafer, Cornell

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
Morgan Barron, Cornell (So., F – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Ryan Kuffner, Princeton (Sr., F – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
* Joe Snively, Yale (Sr., F – Herndon, Va.)
Yanni Kaldis, Cornell (Jr., D – Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
* Adam Fox, Harvard (Jr., D – Jericho, N.Y.)
Austin McGrath, Cornell (So., G – Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada)
Adrian Clark, Dartmouth (Jr., G – Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Tommy Marchin, Brown (Sr., F – Algonac, Mich.)
Drew O'Connor, Dartmouth (Fr., F – Chatham, N.J.)
Max Véronneau, Princeton (Sr., F – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Connor Yau, Dartmouth (Sr., D – Algonquin, Ill.)
Josh Teves, Princeton (Sr., D – Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Sam Tucker, Yale (Sr., G – Wilton, Conn.)

HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Mitch Vanderlaan, Cornell (Sr., F – Hanwell, New Brunswick, Canada)
Cam Donaldson, Cornell (So., F – Pittsboro, N.C.)
Casey Dornbach, Harvard (Fr., F – Edina, Minn.)
Zach Giuttari, Brown (Jr., D – Warwick, R.I.)
Reilly Walsh, Harvard (So., D – Andover, N.H.)

* Unanimous Selection
^ First Team Expanded Due To Tie In Voting

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