{"id":550085,"date":"2026-04-11T06:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:05:24","slug":"minnesota-duluths-plante-captures-hobey-baker-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550085\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Duluth’s Plante captures Hobey Baker Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr 11, 2026, 02:01 AM ET<\/p>\n

Minnesota Duluth sophomore forward Max Plante was crowned the 2026 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner on Friday night as the nation’s best college hockey player.<\/p>\n

Plante, a Detroit Red Wings<\/a> prospect, beat out Denver defenseman Eric Pohlkamp, a San Jose Sharks<\/a> prospect, and Michigan forward T.J. Hughes, an undrafted free agent.<\/p>\n

“I, obviously, had a great year, but a lot of props to my linemates,” Plante said. “They made a bunch of plays for me, and I was the beneficiary of it.”<\/p>\n

A second-round pick in the 2024 NHL draft, Plante, 20, was second in the nation with 25 goals and third with 52 points. He ended the season on a five-game point streak, including an assist in the Bulldogs’ 4-3 loss to Michigan in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

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Plante is expected to return to Minnesota Duluth next season to play alongside his two brothers: older brother Zam, a Minnesota Duluth teammate who was a fifth-round pick of the Penguins in 2022, and younger brother Victor, who is committed to play for the Bulldogs next season.<\/p>\n

“That was a huge motivator,” Plante said. “Just the fact to have a chance to play with two brothers at that high of a level, and to try and achieve something that I haven’t achieved yet — a national championship.”<\/p>\n

Plante is Minnesota Duluth’s seventh Hobey Baker winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 11, 2026, 02:01 AM ET Minnesota Duluth sophomore forward Max Plante was crowned the 2026 Hobey Baker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[5,4,60,14,104,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-550085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-playoffs","8":"category-stanley-cup-playoffs","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-playoffs","12":"tag-stanley-cup","13":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","14":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116384573963375200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}