Word: grumet
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...fact, the leading vote getter, Northern Michigan’s goaltender Tuomas Tarkki, has received 14.3 times as many votes as Grumet-Morris as of 9 p.m. last night...
...Grumet-Morris’ isn’t the name most frequently bandied about in relation to first-team All-American or the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, presented annually to college hockey’s top performer. Not even in the ECAC. That distinction would appear to belong to Cornell’s David McKee, who leads the country in both GAA and shutouts while trailing only Grumet-Morris in save percentage. As recently as Tuesday, pundits from insidecollegehockey.com named the Big Red sophomore as one of their five current favorites for the Hobey Baker, while relegating Grumet-Morris...
...Grumet-Morris isn’t faring much better in the preliminary fan vote for the award either. He’s not only trailing McKee, but is also, at least in the eyes of the self-selecting group of voters, worthy of no better than 10th place. Among goaltenders...
Particularly dedicated Michigans with an excess of free time on their hands aside, the consistent and widespread downplaying of Grumet-Morris’ performance this season is mind boggling. That’s not to say, of course, that Tarkki, Northeastern’s Keni Gibson, Bowling Green’s Jordan Sigalet—curently trailing only Tarkki in fan voting—and a host of other goaltenders from around the country aren’t having fine seasons. Many of them are, of course, as is the case each year. But a cursory glance...
...then, does Grumet-Morris’ name not immediately precede or follow McKee’s in discussion of the nation’s top netminders? I’d speculate the answer is twofold. First, Cornell has something of a reputation as a goaltender factory—remember Ken Dryden or, more recently, David LeNeveu?—and Harvard doesn’t. The reputation of a Big Red netminder, independent of his stats, is automatically enhanced by the fact that he attends Cornell. I’d hazard to guess that if Grumet-Morris and McKee...