Rochester, New York – On Tuesday, the league’s best six RIT men’s hockey players were named to the 2023-24 All-Atlantic Hockey Team.
5th year defensive player Gianfranco Cassarosenior forward Cody Laskoskyjunior goaltender tommy scarphone and junior forward carter wilkie Earned first-team recognition as a senior defenseman Aiden Hansen-Bukata and graduate student forward Elijah Gonsalves They were selected as 2nd and 3rd team award winners, respectively.
Gianfranco Cassaro – 1st team
- Cassaro was named a first-team All-Star for the second consecutive year. He is the nation's top scoring defenseman with 16 goals to date, and is a two-time Hobey Baker Award nominee who was named the top defenseman for the second straight year after the regular season. Ranked 1st in the nation in goals scored.
- The four-time Atlantic Hockey Defensive Player of the Week, the league's best, also scored a team-high eight goals on the power play this season, which ranks 10th nationally among all skaters entering the postseason. It is Thailand.
- He also totaled 18 assists this winter and currently ranks eighth in the nation in scoring with a career-high 34 points, including goals in two games in last weekend's Atlantic Hockey quarterfinal win over Robert Morris. He has become a highly skilled defenseman.
- Cassaro never missed a game in his three seasons at RIT, appearing in 113 games for the Tigers, totaling 74 points, 33 goals and 41 assists.
Cody Laskosky – 1st Team
- Laskosky finished the regular season with a team-high 40 points on 13 goals and 27 assists, ranking second in Atlantic Hockey in scoring and tied for second in assists.
- Laskoski, who was named Atlantic Hockey Player of the Month for February, finished the regular season with a team-high eight-game scoring streak, totaling 14 points on three goals and 11 assists.
- He scored multiple points in a team-high 11 games this season, earning his second career hat trick with an assist in a 7-1 win over Robert Morris (January 20).
- In 123 games over the past four years, Laskoski has 31 goals and 52 assists for 83 points, ranking him 25th in program history in the D1 era and becoming just the 12th player to reach 40 points.
- Laskosky was named Atlantic Hockey Defensive Forward of the Year for the 2022-23 season after ranking fourth on the Tigers with 28 points and third with 13 points, scoring 66 points in the defensive zone.
Tommy Scarfone – 1st team
- Scarfone finished the regular season as one of only four goaltenders in the country with at least 20 wins, and currently ranks fourth in the nation with a 22-8-2 record.
- A Richter Trophy semifinalist and Hobey Baker Award nominee for the second year in a row, the four-time Atlantic Hockey Goaltender of the Week currently ranks fourth nationally with a .926 save percentage and a 2.23 goals-against average with 12 goals against. is ranked first. His four shutout games this season are tied for third in total.
- A two-time Hockey Commissioners Association and Atlantic Hockey Goaltender of the Month, Scarfon became the first Tiger in the D1 era to achieve multiple 20-win seasons and the first Tiger to record multiple 900-save seasons. became. He has moved to the top of the program's all-time wins list with a record of 52-28-4 and second place with 2,380 total saves, including 901 this season.
- Scarfone finished the 2022-23 season by tied for fourth in the nation in wins (22-11-1) and tied for 15th in save percentage with a .918 save percentage, earning All-Atlantic Hockey first-team honors. He also broke the Tigers' Division I-era single-season program record with 934 saves.
Carter Wilkie – 1st Team
- Wilkie was named first team all-conference for the second consecutive season. The two-time Atlantic Hockey Player of the Year finished the regular season fifth in the conference with 34 points, becoming the fifth D1 Tiger to score 30 points in three seasons.
- He also became the fourth-fastest Tiger in the D1 era to reach 100 points and the 15th RIT player to reach the 100-point mark with 106 points (42G/64A) to date.
- The two-time Hobey Baker Award nominee currently ranks 10th on the Tigers' D1 scoring list with 42 goals and 64 assists for 106 points over the past three seasons.
- Wilkie finished the regular season third in Atlantic Hockey in points per game, fifth in points, tied for fourth in goals, and seventh in assists.
- He currently ranks second in the nation in faceoff wins with 506 and is tied for second in short-shooting goals with three.
- Wilkie, who was named the Atlantic Hockey Player of the Year for the 2022-23 season, has been named the Atlantic Hockey Preseason Player of the Year the past two seasons.
Aiden Hansen Bukata – 2nd team
- Hansen-Bukata finished the regular season ranked second in Atlantic hockey in assists and 11th in points, and now has four goals and 25 assists, one point shy of reaching 30 points for the second straight season.
- He was named Atlantic Hockey Defensive Player of the Week in two of the final four weeks of the season. That includes after the Bentley series (Jan. 21), when he scored the tying goal with 41.6 seconds left in regulation in a 2-1 OT win. 27) He assisted on the game-winning goal and the next night he blocked five shots in a 3-0 shutout victory.
- Since returning from a two-game injury absence, he has scored a total of 16 points (3G/13A) in 14 games, with only two scoreless innings. He played in 31 games this winter and was held scoreless just nine times.
- Hansen-Bukata was named Atlantic Hockey Defenseman of the Year and First Team All-Conference for the 2022-23 season after ranking 10th nationally with 30 assists and tied for sixth among defensemen with a career-high 32 points. .
Elijah Gonsalves – 3rd Team
- Goncalves finished the regular season tied for sixth in the conference in goals and 10th in points, earning him his first all-conference honor.
- He has a career-high 30 points and 15 goals this winter, including his 100th career point in last Saturday's win over Robert Morris, and has scored 42 goals and 58 goals so far. He became the 16th D1-era Tiger to hit the century mark in assists.
- The 2019-20 Atlantic Hockey All-Rookie Team selection was a two-time co-captain and bounced back from an injury-shortened junior season, appearing in all 39 games a season ago, and this season. He also appeared in all but four games.
This Friday through Sunday (March 15-17), top-seeded RIT takes on seventh-seeded Niagara in a best-of-three semifinal series in the Atlantic Hockey Tournament. Friday and Saturday games are scheduled for a 7:05 p.m. faceoff, with Sunday's game starting at 5:05 p.m. if necessary.
