March 15, 2010
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Union's Leaman Wins ECAC COTY
CHN Staff Report
ALBANY, N.Y. — Union's Nate Leaman has been named the league’s recipient of the Tim Taylor Award for Coach of the Year.
Under the direction of Leaman, Union’s 20 overall victories and 12 in-conference this year are the most in program history. Selected to finish sixth in both the coaches’ preseason and media polls, the Dutchmen earned a No. 3 seed in the league’s postseason tournament.
Leaman guided Union to a 10-game unbeaten streak (Nov. 6 - Dec. 9), tied for longest in team history — the 1993-94 team had gone 8-0-2. Union also opened the conference schedule with a 7-0-3 mark, which was the best start and longest ECAC Hockey unbeaten streak in team history.
The Dutchmen were solid at both ends of the ice, finishing second in team scoring offense (3.68 G/GM) and third in scoring defense (2.73 G/GM) in conference action.
A 7-0 win at Connecticut on Dec. 12 gave Leaman his 100th victory of his career — all at Union. Previously, Leaman was an assistant coach at Maine, and was with that program when it won a national championship in 1999.
The 17th-ranked Dutchmen advanced to the ECAC Hockey Championship weekend for the first time in the team's 19-year Division I history. Union will play fifth-seeded St. Lawrence at 7 p.m. Friday Mar. 19 in the Times Union Center in Albany.
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