Gladiator Custom Mouthguards Best Defensive Forward Award For Hockey East

Hockey East has announced the Gladiator Custom Mouthguards Best Defensive Forward Award for the 2016-2017 season. Gladiator has been a proud sponsor of Hockey East since 2009 and annually presents the Best Defensive Forward Award.

This year’s winner, Austin Cangelosi, helped Boston College finish the 2016-17 campaign in a three-way tie for first in Hockey East standings. The senior from Estero, Fla. registered the most face-off wins in the league with a winning percentage of 65%, good enough for league best. His 575 face-off wins were nearly one hundred more than that of his next counterpart. Austin also proved to have a scoring touch, finishing third in short handed goals and registering the best goals per shots on goal percentage in Hockey East.

Gladiator congratulates all of the student-athletes winning awards this year and is proud to be associated with Hockey East and their student-athletes.

The full press release can be found here.

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Author Bio

Travis Armideo, marketing manager at Gladiator Custom Mouthguards, is a lifelong ice hockey player. He began playing for various clubs at a young age and continued onto junior teams, while also playing lacrosse at the collegiate level. Travis is still heavily involved in athletics, coaching high school and youth ice hockey athletes, as well as playing men’s league ice hockey on a regular basis.