Denver sophomore defenseman Zeev Buium has been acknowledged because the USCHO Participant of the Yr for the 2024-25 season.
Voting was carried out amongst USCHO.com employees members.
Buium was named a First Crew All-American, the NCHC Participant of the Yr and led all NCAA defensemen in scoring this season with 48 factors whereas rating second amongst all skaters with 35 assists. One in every of two unanimous choices on the NCHC All-Convention First Crew, Buium recorded a career-high 13 targets this season and registered a number of factors 13 occasions. He picked up factors in 30 of 41 video games he performed and tallied 38 factors (13 targets, 25 assists) within the last 31 outings.
The San Diego, Calif., native, additionally a Hobey Hat Trick finalist, ranked third on the Pioneers in scoring and blocked pictures (50), second in penalty minutes (44), and his plus-17 score was tied for the fourth highest on the squad.
Named the NCAA Northeast Regional Most Excellent Participant, Buium mixed for 5 factors on two targets and three assists in victories towards No. 2-seed Windfall and No. 1 Boston School on March 28-30 to assist Denver safe its second 24straight Frozen 4 berth and its sixth journey to the ultimate weekend within the final 9 seasons. The rearguard tallied in each outings of regionals to stretch his objective streak to a personal-best three video games. Denver finally fell in double extra time to Western Michigan within the nationwide semifinals.
He helped the US win its second straight gold medal on the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship. Serving as an alternate captain on Crew USA, Buium averaged the second-most ice time amongst all gamers on the event (25:13) and had assists on each the game-tying and overtime-winning targets within the championship last towards Finland.
A repeat winner of the NCHC Offensive Defenseman of the Yr award in 2024-25, Buium ranks tenth all-time in scoring by a Pioneers blueliner with 98 profession factors (24 targets, 74 assists).
Buium was picked within the first spherical (twelfth general) by the Minnesota Wild within the NHL Draft in June 2024, two months after serving to Denver win its NCAA-record tenth nationwide championship. He signed his entry-level cope with Minnesota final week.
