List of Hockey East Best Defensive Defenseman

The Hockey East Best Defensive Defenseman is an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Hockey East regular season to the best defensive defenseman in the conference as voted by the head coaches of each Hockey East team.
The Best Defensive Defenseman was first bestowed in 1999 and every year thereafter.
Brian Dumoulin is the only defenseman to have won the award more than once, doing so in 2010–11 and 2011–12. The award has been shared once, in 2003–04 between Andrew Alberts of Boston College and Prestin Ryan of Maine. (As of 2021)
==Award winners==
Year 	Winner 	School
1998–99	Steve O'Brien 	New Hampshire
1999–00	Mike Mottau 	Boston College
2000–01	Bobby Allen 	Boston College
2001–02	Chris Dyment 	Boston University
2002–03	Cliff Loya 	Maine
2003–04	Andrew Alberts	Boston College
2003–04	Prestin Ryan 	Maine
2004–05	Tim Judy 	Northeastern
2005–06	Peter Harrold 	Boston College
2006–07	Sean Sullivan 	Boston University
2007–08	Joe Charlebois	New Hampshire
2008–09	Louis Liotti 	Northeastern
Year 	Winner 	School
2009–10	Justin Braun 	Massachusetts
2010–11	Brian Dumoulin 	Boston College
2011–12	Brian Dumoulin 	Boston College
2012–13	Patrick Wey 	Boston College
2013–14	Josh Manson 	Northeastern
2014–15	Mike Paliotta 	Vermont
2015–16	Steve Santini 	Boston College
2016–17	Dennis Gilbert 	Notre Dame
2017–18	Casey Fitzgerald 	Boston College
2018–19	Vincent Desharnais	Providence
2019–20	Wyatt Newpower 	Connecticut
2020–21	Drew Helleson 	Boston College
===Winners by school===
School 	Winners
Boston College 	10
Northeastern 	3
Boston University	2
Maine 	2
New Hampshire 	2
Connecticut 	1
Massachusetts 	1
Notre Dame 	1
Providence 	1
Vermont 	1
==See also==
*Hockey East Awards
== References ==
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==External links==
*Hockey East Awards (Incomplete)
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