College Hockey America Player of the Month

Bailey Bram - Mercyhurst

Senior, Forward, Ste. Anne, Manitoba

Bram leads the team with 15 points on the season and currently leads the team with nine goals, five of which have come on the power play (also leading the team). Her five power play goals is tied for tops in the nation, but first in the nation in power play goals per game. Bram was twice named CHA Player of the Week this month, winning the honors for her performance against Providence and against Lindenwood. She scored  a career-high seven points (two goals and five assists) against Lindenwood last Saturday. She is tied for the team lead with two game-winning goals. She is second on the team with a +12.

OTHER PLAYERS NOMINATED: Holly Carrie-Mattimoe, Syracuse; Kelsey Welch, Niagara

College Hockey America Goaltender of the Month

Hillary Pattenden - Mercyhurst

Senior, Goaltender, Surrey, British Columbia

Pattenden has started seven of eight games for the Lakers and has posted four shutouts in her seven starts, including three consecutive shutouts (two vs Providence and one vs Lindenwood). Also shutout Quinnipiac in the opening game of the season. Is third in the country in goals against average (1.13) and tops in the nation in save percentage (.957). Has a career record of 85-14-3. Her 85 wins is now six shy of tying the all-time NCAA record for career wins, currently held by Wisconsin’s Jessie Vetter, who finished with 91. Pattenden has not allowed a goal since the 8:25 mark of the third period in a 5-4 win over Minnesota State-Mankato on October 8 - a span of 191:25. 

OTHER GOALIES NOMINATED:  Kallie Billadeau, Syracuse; Kristen DiCiocco, Robert Morris 

College Hockey America Rookie of the Month

Rebecca Vint - Robert Morris

Freshman, Forward, Caledon, Ontario

Vint burst onto the scene in her opening month of collegiate competition by scoring at record rates to lead Robert Morris to the best eight-game start in program history (6-1-1). She tallied three points, on two goals and an assist, in the first 31 minutes of the season opener and never looked back. After tallying two points in her second game, Vint showed a flair for the dramatic early in her career--after notching an assist to pull RMU within one goal, she scored the game-tying goal with fewer than three minutes remaining in regulation against Minnesota State in a contest the Colonials would win in overtime. In her third weekend, Vint became just the second Colonial in program history to tally at least four points in a road game while simultaneously collecting her third multi-goal game in her first five outings. Vint scored in each of her first six games, the first time any Colonial had ever scored in six consecutive contests, while finishing the month with 17 points and nine goals, both new Robert Morris records for the first eight games of a season. She remains on an eight-game point streak, tied for the second longest in RMU history, as she enters November with a +10 plus/minus. Vint led the CHA in points per game (and tied for the league lead in goals per game) in October while ranking ninth nationally in points per game and finishing first among all rookies nationally that competed in at least five games.

OTHER ROOKIES NOMINATED:  Allie LaCombe, Syracuse; Abby Ryplanski, Niagara, Shelby Bram, Mercyhurst