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Massachusetts Hockey Announces 2010's All-Decade Team - Presented by Milton CAT
February 27, 2024 | Hockey
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts hockey announced its third of three All-Decade Teams, presented by Milton CAT, unveiling the fan vote winners of the 2010's era during last Friday night's game against New Hampshire. Fans selected forwards Mitchell Chaffee, John Leonard and Bobby Trivigno, defensemen Matthew Kessel and Cale Makar and goaltender Matt Murray.
Meet the Massachusetts hockey 2010's-Present All-Decade Team:
Mitchell Chaffee – Rockford, Mich. – Forward – 2017-20
Mitchell Chaffee was a three-year letterwinner with the Minutemen finished his collegiate career with 95 points on 47 goals and 48 assists over 109 games at UMass and served as co-captain in 2019-20. The Rockford, Michigan native was second for the Minutemen in scoring in his final season in Amherst with 29 points on 16 goals and 13 assists and was +16 over 30 games, including three power-play goals, one shorthanded goal and three game winners. Chaffee ranked 17th nationally in goals per-game (0.53) and tied for seventh in Hockey East in goal scoring overall and for game-winning goals in 2019-20. He enjoyed a breakout sophomore season in 2018-19 which saw him garner CCM/AHCA Hockey First-Team All-America honors and earn the title of Hockey East Scoring Champion in addition to receiving the Herb Gallagher Award (New England's best forward) along with New England All-Star and Hockey East First-Team All-Star recognition, while helping UMass reach the NCAA title game for the first time and win the Hockey East Regular Season title with a program-record 31 wins. Overall in 2018-19, he registered 42 points over 40 contests on a team-high 18 goals with 24 assists and a plus/minus rating of +21.
John Leonard – Amherst, Mass. – Forward – 2017-20
John Leonard left UMass in the spring of 2020 with his name etched throughout the program's record book after three seasons, ranking fourth all-time in program history for career goals (56), tied for fifth in career plus/minus (30), tied for eighth in career points (105) and tied for eighth in career power-play goals (16) over 106 career contests at the time of his departure. In 2019-20 the Amherst, Mass., native set the program's single-season Division I era goals record, which ranks fourth all-time, and became just the sixth member of the 50-goal, 100-point club in UMass history, the first to reach the milestone as a junior in the Division I era. Leonard knocked off both the single-season (6) and career records for game-winning goals (10), as well. Leonard led the nation with 27 goals in 2019-20 and paced the Minutemen with 37 points. He had 10 assists to his credit and was +17 in 33 games with five power-play goals. The First-Team Hockey East All-Star's 21 goals in league games were not only a program record but also marked the most by any Hockey East player since Cam Atkinson had 24 for Boston College in 2010-11. In total, 29 of Leonard's 37 points came in Hockey East contests and included five game-winning goals over 23 league games. He became UMass' first-ever winner of the Hockey East PNC Bank Three Stars Award, as well and was a three-time Hockey East Player of the Week in 2019-20. Nationally, Leonard also ranked first in goals per-game in 2019-20 at 0.82, tied for first in game-winning goals with six and was one of just three players to record two hat tricks last season. He finished in the top-20 in points per-game, coming in at 16th in the nation at a 1.12 clip. Having a reputation for coming through in the clutch, Leonard led the nation in third period goals (16), third period points (21) and game-winning goals (four) scored in the final frame in 2019-20. He tied for the nation's lead in game-winning goals (six) overall and hat tricks (two) and posted a nation's-best seven multi-goal games, 21 even strength goals and 21 goals in UMass wins. Having become the 18th Massachusetts hockey alum to reach the NHL in January 2021 with the San Jose Sharks, Leonard is currently playing in the AHL with the Tucson Roadrunners.
Bobby Trivigno – Setauket, N.Y. – Forward – 2018-2022
The first player in program history to become a two-time All-American at the Division I level and just the second overall, Bobby Trivigno was a four-year letterwinner at UMass and undoubtedly helped usher in the most successful era in the history of Massachusetts hockey as a member of the winningest class in program history, at 94-39-8 (.695) with four-straight seasons of 20 wins or more, which included UMass' first National Championship and Hockey East Tournament Championship in 2021-22. Trivigno etched his name into the UMass record books, becoming just the seventh player in program history to join UMass' 50-goal, 100-point club when he scored his 50th career goal on February 26, 2022 at Vermont. He finished his collegiate career as the all-time leading scorer of the program's Hockey East era with 131 points in addition to holding the school record for career plus-minus (+75), ranking second in career game winning goals (9), fourth in assists (78) and tied for fifth in goals (53). His 2021-22 points total (49) tied for fifth in program history, while his 29 assists ranked seventh on the school's single-season list. The 2021-22 College Hockey News Player of the Year, was the recipient of the Walter Brown Award for a second-straight year in 2022 and named the Leonard Fowle Award winner as the New England Division I Men's Most Valuable Player and earned the Herb Gallagher Award as the top forward in New England. In addition to back-to-back All-America and Walter Brown Award nods, Trivigno also repeated as a member of the Hockey East All-Tournament Team and Hockey East Tournament MVP in 2022 after helping UMass to its second consecutive Hockey East Tournament title. Continuing his laundry list of accolades, Trivigno was a Top-10 Finalist for the 2022 Hobey Baker Award and was crowned the 2021-22 Hockey East Player of the Year. In addition, Trivigno was named a unanimous 2021-22 Hockey East First Team All-Star selection, his second career Hockey East First Team recognition. Trivigno finished third in the nation in points with 49 on 20 goals and 29 assists, all career highs for the forward over 37 games in 2021-22. He was fifth nationally in points per-game (1.32), tied for eighth in assists and was 11th in goals. Trivigno was crowned the 2021-22 Hockey East Scoring Champion with an average of 1.33 points per game, nearly .20 higher than his closest competitor, putting up a league-best 32 points over 24 contests on 14 goals and 18 assists, ranking second in both categories. As a freshman in 2018-19, he was a pivotal contributor to the Minutemen's first Hockey East Regular Season Title and NCAA Runner-Up finish with a program-record 31 wins. In his sophomore season, which was cut short due to the COVID 19 pandemic, UMass was in position to earn another NCAA Tournament berth as the team finished eighth in the final Pairwise rankings. The free agent forward became the 12th player in head coach Greg Carvel's UMass tenure to ink and NHL deal and the eighth to do so after coming to Amherst undrafted in April 2022 and is currently in his second full season with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the AHL.
Matthew Kessel – Bloomfield Hills, Mich. – Defenseman – 2019-22
Matthew Kessel ended his three-year collegiate career at UMass having appeared in 100 games with 23 goals and 28 assists for 51 points, nine power-play goals, two game winners and a +37 rating. The two-time Hockey East All-Star and 2021-22 assistant captain helped the Minutemen to the 2020-21 National Championship and back-to-back Hockey East Tournament titles (2021 and 2022). Kessel earned a spot as a Hockey East Third Team All-Star for a second straight year in 2021-22 after receiving the honor for the first time in 2020-21. He appeared in all 37 games for the Minutemen in 2021-22, totaling 17 points on six goals and 11 assists and was +9 with two power-play goals and one game winner. As a sophomore he was a 2021 Hockey East Third-Team All-Star and registered 23 points on 10 goals and 13 assists over 29 games in 2020-21 with a +15 rating and a team-best six power-play goals. He led all defensemen nationally in goals, goals per-game (.34) and power-play goals. An All-Tournament Team selection at the 2021 Frozen Four, Kessel ended the year tied for fourth nationally in points by a defenseman, ninth in points per-game (.88) and tied for 10th in power play points (9). The St. Louis Blues draft pick signed with the club in the spring of 2022 and made his NHL debut with St. Louis in April, 2023. Kessel has split time between the AHL and the NHL this season, appearing in 22 games thus far for the Blues in 2023-24.
Cale Makar – Calgary, Alberta – Defenseman – 2017-19
During his two-year collegiate career, Cale Makar was named the winner of the 2019 Hobey Baker Award, the first-ever winner from UMass, and helped elevate Massachusetts hockey to unprecedented success in 2018-19 with the program's first-ever Frozen Four appearance. He finished his collegiate career with 70 points on 21 goals and 49 assists over 75 career contests and as the record holder for career plus-minus at +41, signing with the Colorado Avalanche at the conclusion of the 2018-19 campaign. Chosen as the Hockey East Player of the Year by unanimous selection, Makar also received the Leonard Fowle Award as New England Player of the Year and the Bob Monahan Award (New England's best defenseman) in addition to being named a Hockey East First-Team All-Star, a New England All-Star and a 2018-19 CCM/AHA Hockey First Team All-American. Makar was at the center of a historic run for Massachusetts hockey in 2018-19, including program records in wins, conference wins and the team's first-ever Hockey East Regular Season Championship. The first defenseman in history to lead Hockey East in overall scoring with 49 points in 40 games, Makar finished the year eighth in the nation in points per-game (1.20), sixth in assists per-game (0.80), third in defenseman scoring and second in plus-minus (+32). He was voted the Most Outstanding Player at the NCAA Ice Hockey Northeast Regional after leading UMass to a Northeast Regional Championship with a goal, an assist and a +3 rating in 4-0 shutouts of Harvard and Notre Dame. In the national semifinal, Makar logged his 33rd assist of the season and helped the Minutemen earn a spot in the NCAA Championship game for the first time in program history. Makar broke UMass' single-season records for points by a defenseman and assists by a defenseman in 2018-19, marks previously held by UMass Hall of Famer Thomas Poeck. He is second in program history for single-season assists and fifth for single-season points. The three-time NHL All-Star won his first Stanley Cup in 2022 and was the recipient of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. 2019-20, Makar captured the Calder Trophy as NHL's top rookie as well as the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2022. He has set numerous franchise and NHL records and recently eclipsed 300 career points in less than 300 career NHL games.
Matt Murray – St. Albert, Alberta – Goaltender – 2017-22
Matt Murray played five seasons with the Minutemen, winning a National Championship, two Hockey East Tournament titles and a Hockey East Regular Season crown. He appeared in 121 in his collegiate career and registered a 2.23 goals against average and a .917 save percentage with 2,850 career stops. He is UMass' all-time leader in wins (73) and shutouts (14) and first set the program's single-season wins record with 20 in 2018-19 before breaking that in 2021-22 with his 21st win in the Hockey East Championship game. In 2020-21 Murray finished 11th nationally in goals against average (1.97), eighth in winning percentage (.714, 10-4-0) and tied for eighth in shutouts (3), while holding a .917 save percentage. He capped his 2020-21 campaign with a 36-save performance against Minnesota Duluth in the National Semifinal, sending the Minutemen to the National Championship game with the 3-2 overtime victory over the Bulldogs. As a graduate student in 2021-22, Murray received his first Hockey East All-Star nod of his career and went 14-7-2 in league action over 24 games with a 2.19 goals against average over 1,400 minutes in net and a 920 save percentage. The 2022 Hockey East All-Tournament Team honoree ended his final campaign in Amherst with a 21-12-2 record, 2.31 GAA and a .917 save percentage with three shutouts. Murray became the 13th player in Carvel's UMass tenure to ink an NHL deal and the ninth to do so after coming to Amherst undrafted when he signed with the Dallas Stars in the Fall of 2022 and made his NHL Debut with Dallas on March 2, 2023. He is currently playing in the AHL with the Texas Stars.
Meet the Massachusetts hockey 2010's-Present All-Decade Team:
Mitchell Chaffee – Rockford, Mich. – Forward – 2017-20
Mitchell Chaffee was a three-year letterwinner with the Minutemen finished his collegiate career with 95 points on 47 goals and 48 assists over 109 games at UMass and served as co-captain in 2019-20. The Rockford, Michigan native was second for the Minutemen in scoring in his final season in Amherst with 29 points on 16 goals and 13 assists and was +16 over 30 games, including three power-play goals, one shorthanded goal and three game winners. Chaffee ranked 17th nationally in goals per-game (0.53) and tied for seventh in Hockey East in goal scoring overall and for game-winning goals in 2019-20. He enjoyed a breakout sophomore season in 2018-19 which saw him garner CCM/AHCA Hockey First-Team All-America honors and earn the title of Hockey East Scoring Champion in addition to receiving the Herb Gallagher Award (New England's best forward) along with New England All-Star and Hockey East First-Team All-Star recognition, while helping UMass reach the NCAA title game for the first time and win the Hockey East Regular Season title with a program-record 31 wins. Overall in 2018-19, he registered 42 points over 40 contests on a team-high 18 goals with 24 assists and a plus/minus rating of +21.
John Leonard – Amherst, Mass. – Forward – 2017-20
John Leonard left UMass in the spring of 2020 with his name etched throughout the program's record book after three seasons, ranking fourth all-time in program history for career goals (56), tied for fifth in career plus/minus (30), tied for eighth in career points (105) and tied for eighth in career power-play goals (16) over 106 career contests at the time of his departure. In 2019-20 the Amherst, Mass., native set the program's single-season Division I era goals record, which ranks fourth all-time, and became just the sixth member of the 50-goal, 100-point club in UMass history, the first to reach the milestone as a junior in the Division I era. Leonard knocked off both the single-season (6) and career records for game-winning goals (10), as well. Leonard led the nation with 27 goals in 2019-20 and paced the Minutemen with 37 points. He had 10 assists to his credit and was +17 in 33 games with five power-play goals. The First-Team Hockey East All-Star's 21 goals in league games were not only a program record but also marked the most by any Hockey East player since Cam Atkinson had 24 for Boston College in 2010-11. In total, 29 of Leonard's 37 points came in Hockey East contests and included five game-winning goals over 23 league games. He became UMass' first-ever winner of the Hockey East PNC Bank Three Stars Award, as well and was a three-time Hockey East Player of the Week in 2019-20. Nationally, Leonard also ranked first in goals per-game in 2019-20 at 0.82, tied for first in game-winning goals with six and was one of just three players to record two hat tricks last season. He finished in the top-20 in points per-game, coming in at 16th in the nation at a 1.12 clip. Having a reputation for coming through in the clutch, Leonard led the nation in third period goals (16), third period points (21) and game-winning goals (four) scored in the final frame in 2019-20. He tied for the nation's lead in game-winning goals (six) overall and hat tricks (two) and posted a nation's-best seven multi-goal games, 21 even strength goals and 21 goals in UMass wins. Having become the 18th Massachusetts hockey alum to reach the NHL in January 2021 with the San Jose Sharks, Leonard is currently playing in the AHL with the Tucson Roadrunners.
Bobby Trivigno – Setauket, N.Y. – Forward – 2018-2022
The first player in program history to become a two-time All-American at the Division I level and just the second overall, Bobby Trivigno was a four-year letterwinner at UMass and undoubtedly helped usher in the most successful era in the history of Massachusetts hockey as a member of the winningest class in program history, at 94-39-8 (.695) with four-straight seasons of 20 wins or more, which included UMass' first National Championship and Hockey East Tournament Championship in 2021-22. Trivigno etched his name into the UMass record books, becoming just the seventh player in program history to join UMass' 50-goal, 100-point club when he scored his 50th career goal on February 26, 2022 at Vermont. He finished his collegiate career as the all-time leading scorer of the program's Hockey East era with 131 points in addition to holding the school record for career plus-minus (+75), ranking second in career game winning goals (9), fourth in assists (78) and tied for fifth in goals (53). His 2021-22 points total (49) tied for fifth in program history, while his 29 assists ranked seventh on the school's single-season list. The 2021-22 College Hockey News Player of the Year, was the recipient of the Walter Brown Award for a second-straight year in 2022 and named the Leonard Fowle Award winner as the New England Division I Men's Most Valuable Player and earned the Herb Gallagher Award as the top forward in New England. In addition to back-to-back All-America and Walter Brown Award nods, Trivigno also repeated as a member of the Hockey East All-Tournament Team and Hockey East Tournament MVP in 2022 after helping UMass to its second consecutive Hockey East Tournament title. Continuing his laundry list of accolades, Trivigno was a Top-10 Finalist for the 2022 Hobey Baker Award and was crowned the 2021-22 Hockey East Player of the Year. In addition, Trivigno was named a unanimous 2021-22 Hockey East First Team All-Star selection, his second career Hockey East First Team recognition. Trivigno finished third in the nation in points with 49 on 20 goals and 29 assists, all career highs for the forward over 37 games in 2021-22. He was fifth nationally in points per-game (1.32), tied for eighth in assists and was 11th in goals. Trivigno was crowned the 2021-22 Hockey East Scoring Champion with an average of 1.33 points per game, nearly .20 higher than his closest competitor, putting up a league-best 32 points over 24 contests on 14 goals and 18 assists, ranking second in both categories. As a freshman in 2018-19, he was a pivotal contributor to the Minutemen's first Hockey East Regular Season Title and NCAA Runner-Up finish with a program-record 31 wins. In his sophomore season, which was cut short due to the COVID 19 pandemic, UMass was in position to earn another NCAA Tournament berth as the team finished eighth in the final Pairwise rankings. The free agent forward became the 12th player in head coach Greg Carvel's UMass tenure to ink and NHL deal and the eighth to do so after coming to Amherst undrafted in April 2022 and is currently in his second full season with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the AHL.
Matthew Kessel – Bloomfield Hills, Mich. – Defenseman – 2019-22
Matthew Kessel ended his three-year collegiate career at UMass having appeared in 100 games with 23 goals and 28 assists for 51 points, nine power-play goals, two game winners and a +37 rating. The two-time Hockey East All-Star and 2021-22 assistant captain helped the Minutemen to the 2020-21 National Championship and back-to-back Hockey East Tournament titles (2021 and 2022). Kessel earned a spot as a Hockey East Third Team All-Star for a second straight year in 2021-22 after receiving the honor for the first time in 2020-21. He appeared in all 37 games for the Minutemen in 2021-22, totaling 17 points on six goals and 11 assists and was +9 with two power-play goals and one game winner. As a sophomore he was a 2021 Hockey East Third-Team All-Star and registered 23 points on 10 goals and 13 assists over 29 games in 2020-21 with a +15 rating and a team-best six power-play goals. He led all defensemen nationally in goals, goals per-game (.34) and power-play goals. An All-Tournament Team selection at the 2021 Frozen Four, Kessel ended the year tied for fourth nationally in points by a defenseman, ninth in points per-game (.88) and tied for 10th in power play points (9). The St. Louis Blues draft pick signed with the club in the spring of 2022 and made his NHL debut with St. Louis in April, 2023. Kessel has split time between the AHL and the NHL this season, appearing in 22 games thus far for the Blues in 2023-24.
Cale Makar – Calgary, Alberta – Defenseman – 2017-19
During his two-year collegiate career, Cale Makar was named the winner of the 2019 Hobey Baker Award, the first-ever winner from UMass, and helped elevate Massachusetts hockey to unprecedented success in 2018-19 with the program's first-ever Frozen Four appearance. He finished his collegiate career with 70 points on 21 goals and 49 assists over 75 career contests and as the record holder for career plus-minus at +41, signing with the Colorado Avalanche at the conclusion of the 2018-19 campaign. Chosen as the Hockey East Player of the Year by unanimous selection, Makar also received the Leonard Fowle Award as New England Player of the Year and the Bob Monahan Award (New England's best defenseman) in addition to being named a Hockey East First-Team All-Star, a New England All-Star and a 2018-19 CCM/AHA Hockey First Team All-American. Makar was at the center of a historic run for Massachusetts hockey in 2018-19, including program records in wins, conference wins and the team's first-ever Hockey East Regular Season Championship. The first defenseman in history to lead Hockey East in overall scoring with 49 points in 40 games, Makar finished the year eighth in the nation in points per-game (1.20), sixth in assists per-game (0.80), third in defenseman scoring and second in plus-minus (+32). He was voted the Most Outstanding Player at the NCAA Ice Hockey Northeast Regional after leading UMass to a Northeast Regional Championship with a goal, an assist and a +3 rating in 4-0 shutouts of Harvard and Notre Dame. In the national semifinal, Makar logged his 33rd assist of the season and helped the Minutemen earn a spot in the NCAA Championship game for the first time in program history. Makar broke UMass' single-season records for points by a defenseman and assists by a defenseman in 2018-19, marks previously held by UMass Hall of Famer Thomas Poeck. He is second in program history for single-season assists and fifth for single-season points. The three-time NHL All-Star won his first Stanley Cup in 2022 and was the recipient of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. 2019-20, Makar captured the Calder Trophy as NHL's top rookie as well as the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2022. He has set numerous franchise and NHL records and recently eclipsed 300 career points in less than 300 career NHL games.
Matt Murray – St. Albert, Alberta – Goaltender – 2017-22
Matt Murray played five seasons with the Minutemen, winning a National Championship, two Hockey East Tournament titles and a Hockey East Regular Season crown. He appeared in 121 in his collegiate career and registered a 2.23 goals against average and a .917 save percentage with 2,850 career stops. He is UMass' all-time leader in wins (73) and shutouts (14) and first set the program's single-season wins record with 20 in 2018-19 before breaking that in 2021-22 with his 21st win in the Hockey East Championship game. In 2020-21 Murray finished 11th nationally in goals against average (1.97), eighth in winning percentage (.714, 10-4-0) and tied for eighth in shutouts (3), while holding a .917 save percentage. He capped his 2020-21 campaign with a 36-save performance against Minnesota Duluth in the National Semifinal, sending the Minutemen to the National Championship game with the 3-2 overtime victory over the Bulldogs. As a graduate student in 2021-22, Murray received his first Hockey East All-Star nod of his career and went 14-7-2 in league action over 24 games with a 2.19 goals against average over 1,400 minutes in net and a 920 save percentage. The 2022 Hockey East All-Tournament Team honoree ended his final campaign in Amherst with a 21-12-2 record, 2.31 GAA and a .917 save percentage with three shutouts. Murray became the 13th player in Carvel's UMass tenure to ink an NHL deal and the ninth to do so after coming to Amherst undrafted when he signed with the Dallas Stars in the Fall of 2022 and made his NHL Debut with Dallas on March 2, 2023. He is currently playing in the AHL with the Texas Stars.
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