Mar 14, 2025
Photo courtesy of Michigan Tech University Michigan Tech forward Elias Janssen celebrates a goal scored in a semifinal game against Massachusetts-Lowell Friday, Jan. 3, in Coachella Valley, California. Janssen was named CCHA Rookie of the Year Wednesday.
HOUGHTON — The Michigan Tech Huskies hockey team’s Elias Jansson has been named the CCHA Rookie of the Year the league announced on Wednesday. It’s the third year in a row a Tech player has received the award after Isaac Gordon in 2024 and Kyle Kukkonen in 2023.
Jansson, a forward from Oulu, Finland, played in all 36 games in his first season and led the Huskies with 12 goals. He added 11 assists for 23 points which ranked fourth on the team. Jansson scored six power-play goals and scored game-winners against Alaska (Oct. 11) in overtime and against Northern Michigan (Jan. 24). He scored a hat trick against Bemidji State (Feb. 8) in Winter Carnival.
In CCHA games, Jansson led CCHA rookies with 10 goals and 10 assists while scoring five power-play goals. He ranked fourth in power-play goals and sixth in goals while having five multi-point games, and was one of six players with a hat trick. Jansson was named the CCHA Rookie of the Month for February and earned four CCHA Rookie of the Week honors.
Voting for the 2024-25 All-CCHA Teams and year-end awards was conducted by the nine head coaches at each CCHA member institution, based on CCHA conference games only. Coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players.
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