Peyton Jones Named to Mike Richter Award Watch ListPeyton Jones Named to Mike Richter Award Watch List

Peyton Jones Named to Mike Richter Award Watch List

Oct. 5, 2017

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Sophomore goaltender Peyton Jones (Langhorne, Pa.) joins 19 others as part of a 20 man watch list for the 2017-18 Mike Richter Award as announced by Let's Play Hockey and the Herb Brooks Foundation earlier Thursday afternoon.

The Mike Richter Award is in its fifth season and is presented to the most outstanding goaltender in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey.

Jones is joined by two other Big Ten goalies in Minnesota's Eric Schierhorn and Wisconsin's Kyle Hayton who was a finalist for the award in 2015 back with St. Lawrence. Also on the list is 2016-17 winner Tanner Jaillet from the University of Denver and another 2016-17 finalist Michael Bitzer from Bemidji State.

Jones started in 36 games last season posting a 23-10-2 record with a .904 save percentage and a 2.60 goals against average while making 884 saves. His 36 games played, 23 wins and 884 saves are all single-season Penn State records.

Jones was also named an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention and a member of the All-Freshman Team during his first season in Hockey Valley. Jones helped lead Penn State to it's first-ever Big Ten Tournament Championship last season and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Jones had a career-high 51 saves in a 2-1 championship game victory over Wisconsin.

The Nittany Lions open their 2017-18 slate at Clarkson on Friday at 7 p.m. where Jones will battle another Richter Award watch list member in Golden Knight sophomore Jake Kielly.

Full 2017-18 Watch List

Name School Year

Michael Bitzer * Bemidji State Senior

Ben Blacker Western Michigan Sophomore

Hayden Hawkey Providence Junior

Kyle Hayton ^ Wisconsin Senior

Adam Huska Connecticut Sophomore

Tanner Jaillet $ Denver Senior

Cam Johnson ! North Dakota Senior

Peyton Jones Penn State Sophomore

Justin Kapelmaster Ferris State Sophomore

Jake Kielly Clarkson Sophomore

Merrick Madsen # Harvard Senior

Francis Marotte Robert Morris Sophomore

Jake Oettinger # Boston University Sophomore

Jason Pawloski Minnesota State Junior

Aidan Pelino Bentley Sophomore

Eric Schierhorn Minnesota Junior

Andrew Shortridge Quinnipiac Sophomore

Atte Tolvanen Northern Michigan Junior

Tyler Wall UMass Lowell Sophomore

Joseph Woll Boston College Sophomore

$ 2017 Mike Richter Award winner

* 2017 finalist

# 2017 semifinalist

! 2016 finalist

^ 2015 finalist