Just before the championship game , team captain Will Butcher was announced as the winner of the 2017 Hobey Baker Award joining a slew of other awards by Denver players including the Mike Richter Award ( Tanner Jaillet ) , NCHC Player of the Year ( Butcher ) , NCHC Rookie of the Year ( Henrik Borgström ) , NCHC Goaltender of the Year ( Jaillet ) , NCHC Offensive Defenseman of the Year ( Butcher ) and the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player Jarid Lukosevicius . Additionally Butcher was named to the All-American First Team while Jaillet made the second team . Both players made the NCHC First Team , Henrik Borgström and Dylan Gambrell each made the conference Second Team while Borgström and Michael Davies both made the All-NCHC Rookie Team
NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player
List of NCAA Division I Ice Hockey Tournament Most Outstanding Player
2016–17 Denver Pioneers men's ice hockey season