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Adding to the list of top players in their conferences (Tony Lee and Sade Logan in the NEC) Ryan Cruthers has been awarded the top honor in the CHA, Player of the Year. His teammate Joel Gasper took home the CHA Student-Athlete of the Year as well. Congrats guys!

From rmucolonials.com

"Moon Township, Pa. - March 13, 2008 - Senior Ryan Cruthers
(Farmingdale, N.Y. / Army) of the Robert Morris University men’s ice
hockey team was selected as the College Hockey America Player of the
Year Thursday afternoon, marking the first time in the programs
four-year history a Colonial has been named the player of the year. Also
garnering a major individual award was senior Joel Gasper (Crookston,
Minn. / Billings Bulls). Gasper becomes the first Colonial to garner
student-athlete of the year honors.

Cruthers earns his honor after rewriting the RMU single-season record
book for the second straight season. RMU’s first Hobey Baker nominee,
set single-season marks for points (48), goals (22), assists (26),
points per game (1.45), shorthanded goals (4) and shots on goal (139).
He also is currently a plus-7, which ties the single-season mark.

He currently ranks first in the CHA in points and goals, while ranking
second in assists. Cruthers ranks in the top-10 in five different
categories nationally. He ranks second with 1.45 points per game, tied
for third with 48 points and four shorthanded goals, eighth with 0.67
goals per game and tied for eighth with 0.79 assists per game.

Gasper, a manufacturing engineering major, was named student-athlete of
the year having maintained a 3.92 cumulative grade point average through
three plus years at Robert Morris. On the ice, Gasper was promoted to
captain this season after serving as an alternate captain last season,
while being named RMU’s most inspirational player and student-athlete
of the year the past two seasons. Gasper missed a portion of the 2007-08
season but has tallied seven points, all assists, in 22 games while
playing a significant role in RMU’s defensive zone.

Gasper has been named to seven consecutive dean’s lists and is a two
time Dean’s Scholar Award Winner. He has been named to three-straight
CHA All-Academic squads and in 2007 was named ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-District At-Large First Team.

The player of the year award is selected by a poll of league coaches,
while the student-athlete of the year award is decided upon by the
leagues athletic directors.

After being named to the All-CHA First Team, Cruthers is now eligible
for All-American status."