ALBANY, N.Y. -- Cornell seniors Ben Scrivens, Justin Krueger and Colin Greening were each the recipient of one of the annual ECAC Hockey awards, handed out at the annual pre-tournament banquet on Thursday night. Krueger was named the league's top defensive defenseman, while Scrivens earned the league's Ken Dryden Award as the top goaltender. Greening, meanwhile, was recognized for his efforts on the ice and in the classroom as the league's Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

Krueger is the first Cornell blueliner to win the top defenseman award since Brian McMeekin and Douglas Murray claimed the honor in back-to-back years in 2002 and 2003. He finished third on the Big Red and tops among Cornell defensemen in +/- with 15, and is one of the team leaders in blocked shots while also serving a critical role on the Big Red's penalty-killing unit, the best in the league at 87.3 percent. Krueger also matches up against the opposition's top offensive line on a nightly basis and anchors the defense that has only surrendered 61 goals in 31 games this season.

Scrivens, meanwhile, ran away with the Ken Dryden Award as the top goaltender in the league, the first time a Cornell goaltender has won the award since David McKee in 2005. Scrivens posted a 1.89 goals-against average and a .933 save percentage to lead the league and rank second in the nation. He has five shutouts this season to raise his career total to 17, one shy of McKee's school record of 18. He also ranks fourth all-time in NCAA history with his 17 shutouts, while also appearing in the top 10 all-time in both career save percentage and goals-against average.

The complete student-athlete, Greening was recognized for his work both on the ice and in the classroom as the ECAC Hockey Scholar-Athlete of the Year. An applied economics and management major, he earned second-team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America honors last year in the highly competitive at-large category. This season, he is second on the team in scoring with 34 points in 31 games, scoring 15 goals and adding in 19 assists this season. He has appeared in every game during his Cornell career, needing just four more to tie the school record of 138 games played. Greening also became the 45th player in school history to record 100 career points when he did so against Colorado College on Dec. 29.

Cornell will begin play for its first ECAC Hockey championship since 2005 when it takes on Brown in the first of two semifinal games on Friday at 4 p.m. at the Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y.