BOSTON – Three players whose teams earned sweeps captured Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) men’s player of the week honors, while the fourth scored five goals in his team’s win and overtime loss for the week ending Nov. 8.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Forward of the Week: Matthew Wilde, RIT (Sr., Mississauga, Ont.)
Defenseman of the Week: Aiden VanRooyan, Sacred Heart (Jr., Dakota Dunes, S.D.)
Goaltender of the Week: Charlie Schenkel, Robert Morris (So., Toronto, Ont.)
Rookie of the Week: Emmanuel Vermette, Sacred Heart (F, Quebec City, Que.)

FORWARD OF THE WEEK
Matthew Wilde led all AHA skaters and tied for the national lead with five goals last week, scoring all three RIT goals in Friday’s 4-3 overtime loss and two more in the Tigers’ 3-0 win on Saturday, both at Bentley. Two of his goals came on the power play and he had a +3 rating for the weekend. Friday’s hat trick was the first of his collegiate career.

Wilde has six goals through nine games on the season in his return to RIT after transferring to UMass last season. The 2024-25 First-Team All-Atlantic Hockey selection scored 37 goals in his first two seasons with the Tigers.

This marks the second AHA Forward of the Week selection of Wilde’s career (also Feb. 25, 2025).

DEFENSEMAN OF THE WEEK
Aiden VanRooyan continued a strong start to his junior campaign with a goal and an assist, a +3 rating and three blocked shots in Sacred Heart’s sweep of Canisius. His goal on Friday was an unassisted effort that proved to be the game-winner, as he stole the puck off a Golden Griffin’s stick and raced the length of the ice to score with just 3.2 seconds remaining in the second period.

VanRooyan has seven points (four goals, three assists) through nine games, along with a +7 rating. He has points in three straight, all wins for the Pioneers.

The honor is the first AHA weekly award of VanRooyan’s career.

GOALTENDER OF THE WEEK
Charlie Schenkel posted his second and third consecutive wins last weekend at Long Island, including his first shutout of the season on Saturday. He stopped 79 of 81 shots on the week, and his .975 save percentage was the best in the nation among goaltenders who played more than one game. 

Schenkel had lost his first six starts of the season, but had made 34 or more saves in three of those games, including 42 stops in a 1-0 loss at #1 Wisconsin. He has a 2.86 goals-against average and .911 save percentage on the year, including a .964 save percentage in his current winning streak.

Schenkel has two previous AHA weekly awards, recognized as Goaltender of the Week on March 11, 2026, and Rookie of the Week on Dec. 2, 2025.

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Emmanuel Vermette is the second straight Sacred Heart freshman to claim Rookie of the Week honors, following Ethan Semeniuk (Fort St. John, B.C.) last week. Vermette had two points in each game of the Pioneers’ sweep of Canisius, and his four points (one goal, three assists) trailed only Wilde among AHA skaters for the week. Vermette’s 10 shots on goal led the league for the week.

Vermette has played in all 10 games for Sacred Heart and recorded five points (two goals, three assists). This is the first AHA weekly honor of his career.

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