List of NCAA Division I Ice Hockey Tournament Most Outstanding Player
Year Winner Position School
1972 Tim Regan Goaltender Boston University
1973 Dean Talafous Right Wing Wisconsin
1974 Brad Shelstad Goaltender Minnesota
1975 Jim Warden Goaltender Michigan Tech
1976 Tom Vannelli Center Minnesota
1977 Julian Baretta Goaltender Wisconsin
1978 Jack O'Callahan Defenceman Boston University
1979 Steve Janaszak Goaltender Minnesota
1980 Doug Smail Right Wing North Dakota
1981 Marc Behrend Goaltender Wisconsin
1982 Phil Sykes Left Wing North Dakota
1983 Marc Behrend Goaltender Wisconsin
1984 Gary Kruzich Goaltender Bowling Green
1985 Chris Terreri * Goaltender Providence
1986 Mike Donnelly Left Wing Michigan State
1987 Tony Hrkac Center North Dakota
1988 Bruce Hoffort Goaltender Lake Superior State
1989 Ted Donato Left Wing Harvard
1990 Chris Tancill Right Wing Wisconsin
1991 Scott Beattie Center Northern Michigan
The Tournament Most Outstanding Player is an annual award given out at the conclusion of the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship to the player to be judged the most outstanding. The award has been in effect since the adoption of a national championship tournament for the 1947-48 season. In recent years the award has usually gone to the most outstanding player of the team that won the Division I NCAA Tournament. During the first five years of the tournament the most outstanding player did not come from the winning squad but since 1953 the MOP has not been on the victorious school in only three years (1955, 1960 and 1985). Only two players have been named MOP more than once (Lou Angotti and Marc Behrend), however neither was able to do so in consecutive years. In 1960 the MOP was awarded to multiple players for the first time when it was awarded to three separate people, none of whom played for the National Champion. It has not been awarded to more than one player in a single year since.