His Statistics: 2 GP, 4-0—4, +3, SHG, GWG

His Impact: If you saw Saturday's Denver-St. Cloud State game in person or live on television, or caught the YouTube video of Rakhshani's incredible performance over the last six minutes of the third period that night, you get the sense that you're witnessing a pair of simultaneous transformations. One is the Pioneers making the leap from very good to great based on their unwillingness to pack it in against a Huskies team that had stymied them all night.

The other is Rakhshani's metamorphosis from a good player to an impact player, one with the knack for making a key play at a crucial moment — be it a great individual effort on DU's first goal, a shorthanded tally; recognizing the SCSU goaltender was out of position and trying to thow the puck into the crease area (it would carom off the goaltender and across the goal line); or finding a sliver of open space in the slot and muscling a one-time feed into the net with less than 30 seconds in regulation. Luckily for the Pioneers, Rakhshani did all three.

His Runners-Up: Tim Crowder (Michigan State), Ben Nelson (Quinnipiac), Alexandre Parent (Sacred Heart), Jon Rheault (Providence), Tyler Scofield (Bemidji State), Mike Zacharias (Minnesota State).

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