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Clark Wins Award

Published on March 8, 2012 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
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(HALIFAX, N.S.) - Atlantic University Sport is pleased to announce the 2011-12 AUS men's hockey major award winners and all-stars as selected by the conference's eight head coaches following regular season play.

Third-year Acadia forward Andrew Clark was named the Atlantic University Sport most valuable player, Wednesday.

Other AUS major award winners announced today were StFX's Michael Kirkpatrick of North Sydney, N.S., who was named rookie of the year; Dean Ouellet of the Moncton Aigles Bleus, who was selected as the most sportsmanlike player; UNB's Kyle Bailey of Ponoka, Alta., who received the student-athlete community service award; and Moncton head coach Serge Bourgeois, who was named the AUS coach of the year for the first time in his career.

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER (Kelly Trophy): Andrew Clark, Acadia

The Atlantic University Sport men's hockey most valuable player is Andrew Clark of the Acadia Axemen.

Clark, a third-year forward from Brandon, Man., led the Atlantic conference in scoring this season with 39 points in 28 games played. Andrew, also named a first team all-star today, netted 15 goals and added 24 assists this year, including tying for the league lead with four game-winning goals. He becomes the fourth Axemen player to claim the Kelly Trophy since 1979-80 and the first Acadia league MVP since Kevin Baker was named the conference's top player in 2005-06.

In just three seasons of university hockey, Clark, a former star with the WHL's Brandon Wheat Kings, has already accumulated 99 career points in 83 career regular season games played.

"We are very proud of Andrew's accomplishments this year and he is a tremendous leader for our hockey club," said Acadia head coach Darren Burns. "To be in on over 40 percent of our goals is truly a remarkable statistic. His approach to the game is very refreshing as he is a very unselfish player who's only concern is team success. Even more impressive was his ability to help so many first year players get acclimatized to university life and the game itself."

Andrew will represent the conference at the CIS Championship banquet this month as the AUS nominee for the Senator Joseph A. Sullivan Trophy as the nation's top player. The Atlantic conference has claimed the past three of the past four CIS player of the year awards, with UNB's Hunter Tremblay as the most recent recipient in 2009-10.

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