March 21, 2007
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Curry Wins Walter Brown Award
CHN Staff Report
BOSTON — Boston University goaltender John Curry is the winner of the 55th Walter Brown Award, the nation's oldest college hockey honor. Presented annually to the best American-born college hockey player in New England, the Walter Brown Award was established in 1953 by the members of the 1933 Massachusetts Rangers, a team coached by Brown to America's first world championship in ice hockey.
Curry, a Terrier senior from Shorewood, Minn., currently ranks third in the nation with a 1.92 goals against average and leads the country in shutouts with seven. His save percentage of .931 places him second in the country in that category. He posted a 17-9-8 record in backstopping BU to a third-place regular season finish in Hockey East.
Curry is Boston University's all-time leader in goals-against average with 2.05 and in save percentage with .924. He was a semifinalist for the Walter Brown Award in both his sophomore and junior years.
Earlier this month Curry was named to Hockey East's first all star team and was selected the league's Player of the Year. He is the only Hockey East Player to be named a finalist for the 2007 Hobey Baker Award. Curry is the 10th Boston University player to win the Walter Brown Award and the first since Chris Drury in 1998.
Curry edged out Quinnipiac senior defenseman Reid Cashman and New Hampshire junior goaltender Kevin Regan in the final balloting.
"Once again, we had a superb field of candidates for the Walter Brown Award. This was no surprise; it was a tremendously competitive and defense-oriented year in eastern hockey," selection committee chairman Tim Costello said. "With John Curry in net, BU gave up the fewest goals in Hockey East. New Hampshire, which had a much more potent offense than BU, wasn't far behind the Terriers defensively thanks to Kevin Regan. And because of Reid Cashman's play, this season and over his entire career, Quinnipiac has proven that it not only belongs in the ECACHL, but that it has also become one of the East's best Division One programs."
Curry will receive the 2007 Walter Brown Award at the New England Hockey Writers' Dinner on Wednesday, April 11 in Saugus, Mass.
