University of Minnesota Athletics
Raty Named WCHA Defensive Player of the Week
1/27/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Hockey
Minnesota goaltender Noora Räty, a freshman from Espoo, Finland, earned back-to-back shutouts last weekend to help the Golden Gophers to a two-game WCHA series sweep over visiting North Dakota last weekend. For her performance, she was named the conference's defensive player of the week.
Räty had 18 saves in last Friday’s (Jan. 22) 3-0 Minnesota victory. She kept the Gophers in the game for a majority of the time, including stopping a shorthanded breakaway attempt in the second period. Then last Saturday (Jan. 23), Räty backstopped Minnesota to another shutout win over the Fighting Sioux, this time 2-0. She had some key saves in the game, including multiple odd-man rush attempts by North Dakota. She stopped all 19 shots on goal, including 13 in the second period.
Räty now has seven shutouts this season and is just one away from tying the school record of eight held by Jody Horak. She also sports a league-best 14-2-4 overall record, a league best 0.80 goals-against average, and a league-best .967 saves percentage over 1,197 minutes of action.
Minnesota and WCHA Player of the Week Honors
Offensive:
Chelsey Jones (Oct. 7 vs. Syracuse)
Sarah Erickson (Oct. 14 at Ohio State)
Sarah Erickson (Jan. 12 vs. Ohio State)
Defensive:
Noora Räty (Oct. 21 vs. Minnesota Duluth)
Anne Schleper (Nov. 18 at Minnesota State)
Noora Räty (Dec. 2 vs Clarkson)
Noora Räty (Dec. 9 at Harvard)
Noora Räty (Jan. 27 vs. North Dakota)
Rookie:
Noora Räty (Oct. 28 vs. St. Cloud State)
Megan Bozek (Nov. 25 vs. Bemidji State)
Megan Bozek (Dec. 16 at North Dakota)
