Dyment Named League's Player of the Week
October 31, 2001 | Men's Ice Hockey
Senior captain Chris Dyment (Reading), whose two power play goals and assist helped lead the Terriers to a 4-0 Hockey East win over Merrimack College last Sunday night (October 28th), has been named the league's Koho Player of the Week.
The win kept the Terriers undefeated in the young season as they are now 3-0-0 overall, while they are 1-0-0 in the league.
Their early-season success has catapulted them to number six in the nation in this week's USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Top-10 poll. It marked a jump of four spots for B.U., which had been number 10 the week before.
This also marks the first time since the 1997-98 season that the Terriers have opened the season with three straight wins. That year, the team went on to finish with a 28-8-2 record and advanced to the NCAA East Regionals. There, they lost to New Hampshire, 4-3, in overtime.
Two years ago, when the team posted a 25-10-7 record and again advanced to the NCAA tournament, they were 2-1-0 at this point in the season.
For Dyment, his performance against Merrimack put aside frustrations that lasted all last season.
"I know that it is early in the season, and we have played just three games," Dyment said after the Merrimack win. "But, I can sleep well tonight."
Two years ago, Dyment was one of the top offensive defensemen not just in Hockey East but in college hockey. In 42 games, he had 11 goals and 20 assists. He was the team's top-scoring defenseman, while he was sixth on the team overall in point totals. What's more, he was 20th in scoring among all Hockey East players.
He earned Second Team JOFA All-American honors as well as First Team All-Hockey East, All-New England, the team's Most Improved Player, and was voted New England's Most Improved Player in a vote of the New England sportswriters, coaches, and officials.
It was a different story last year, as his totals fell off to one goal and 10 assists for 11 points in 37 games. This season also started off slowly as he did not have a point in the first two games.
It all changed against Merrimack with his three-point game. First, he assisted on what proved to be the game-winning goal by sophomore Frantisek Skladany (Martin, Slovakia) at 8:07 of the second period.
Then, Dyment scored his team's first two goals of the third period. The first came at 11:49 and the second at 14:05, and both came with the Terriers skating a man up.
This marks the second time in his collegiate career that Dyment has won a weekly award from Hockey East. As a sophomore, he was named the Defensive Player of the Week after scoring 4-3-7 in a sweep of Harvard, Denver, and Colorado College during the week of November 23-27, 1999.
