ANNVILLE, Pa. – For the second straight week and the third time in the last four weeks, the Manhattanville College men’s hockey team swept the Middle Atlantic Conference Men’s Hockey weekly awards. Junior Bryan Platt (Trumbull, Conn./Springfield Pics (USPHL)) earned his first career MAC Offensive Player of the Week award, while junior Tyler Feaver (Whitby, Ont./Whitby Fury (OJHL)) was named the MAC Defensive Player of the Week for the fourth time in eight weeks.
Manhattanville did not lose in a 2-0-1 week, starting off 2018 by extending its unbeaten streak to five games. On Tuesday, the Valiants came back to defeat Connecticut College by a 2-1 score at Playland. The team then headed north and captured the Pathfinder Bank Classic title, advancing in a shootout after a 3-3 (OT) tie with #7/6 Hobart College on Friday before dominating host #4/2 Oswego State, 4-1, in the championship game on Saturday.
Platt led Manhattanville with three points in three games last week, scoring twice with one assist. He single-handedly led the Valiants to a win on Tuesday against Connecticut College, scoring once in the second and third periods of the team’s 2-1 comeback victory, and then added an assist on Manhattanville’s first goal in Friday’s 3-3 (OT) tie with #7/6 Hobart.
Through 11 games this season, Platt ranks fifth on the team in scoring with three goals and five assists for eight points. In his first three years with Manhattanville, Platt has scored 14 goals with 11 assists for 25 points in 42 career games.
Feaver went 2-0-1 with a 1.62 goals against average and .947 save percentage as Manhattanville went unbeaten in three games. He started the week on Tuesday by saving 25-of-26 shots in a 2-1 comeback win over Connecticut College, allowing just one power-play goal. He then was named Most Valuable Player at the Pathfinder Bank Classic after making 32 saves in a 3-3 tie with #7/6 Hobart before stopping all three shootout attempts to reach the title round, where he stopped the first 32 shots he faced in the Valiants’ impressive 4-1 win over #4/2 Oswego State.
The junior is having a breakout year in the crease for the Valiants, currently ranking 16th in Division III in save percentage (.934) and 20th in goals against average (a MAC-best 1.88). In less than three full seasons with the team, Feaver is already fourth in school history in both wins (24) and saves (1,314) as well as seventh in goals against average (2.92) and ninth in save percentage (.901).
Manhattanville will look to extend its unbeaten streak to six games tomorrow, when the Valiants continue non-conference play against SUNY Cortland beginning at 7 p.m. at Playland Ice Casino.
