Third-year goaltender Reilly Pickard has been named an AUS first team all-star for the first time in his career. The Halifax, N.S. native was second amongst all goalies this year with a save percentage of .921 and third with a goals against average of 2.84.
A mechanical engineering major, he started and played in 12 of the Tigers 23 regular season games this season, allowing 34 total goals.
In his 10th season leading the Dalhousie Tigers men’s hockey team, Chris Donnelly has been chosen by his peers as the 2021-22 AUS coach of the year.
After finishing the 2019-20 season in seventh place, with an 8-19-1-2 record, this year Donnelly guided the Tigers to finish third in the conference, with an 11-11-1-0 record.
In the 2021-22 regular season, Dalhousie scored an average of 3.35 goals per game, had the second-best penalty kill percentage in the league (84.7%) and second-highest save percentage (.903). The Tigers also led the conference with four short-handed goals.
Donnelly is the first Tigers coach to win the Bob Boucher Trophy since Fabian Joseph in 2000-01. He now becomes the Atlantic conference nominee for the Father George Kehoe Memorial Award as the U SPORTS coach of the year.