Ditto with one more bonus.
The NCAA yappers (can't call them really commentators because that means they'd actually have to pay more attention to the game than they have been) all are saying Carle. He's very deserving but I love upsets. So I hope Ryan gets it. I think Carle really does deserve it, but even so, Ryan lead his team deeper into the postseason (even if it was by losing the last three games) than Carle did. He did do everything he could do to beat SCSU. It's not his fault that Briggs and the Gopher D decided that it was an optional game. He did not get squat against Holy Cross, but he certainly was trying hard. He wasn't coasting like...say...Wheeler was in most respects (How many of you Gopher lurkers expected me to say Kessel? ).
I think Ryan getting the award would be a great thing for Grand Forks, Minnesota, and the WCHA. When it comes down to it, the WCHA needs to win all of the awards, IMO. If not the Sioux, the WCHA I always say.