On the eve of the national championship game, Massachusetts sophomore defenseman Cale Makar captured the 2019 Hobey Baker Award as the top player this year in college hockey.

Makar’s honor headlined the Friday at the Frozen Four awards ceremony at Buffalo’s HarborCenter. Also honored:

• Mike Richter Award: Cayden Primeau, Northeastern
• Hockey Humanitarian Award: Jake Bunz, Wisconsin
• Tim Taylor National Rookie of the Year: Joel Farabee, Boston University
• Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award: Brendon Kearney, Ohio State
• AHCA All-America Teams – listed below

Makar enters the national championship game with 49 points, one shy of the national scoring lead. He beat out two other defensemen, Harvard’s Adam Fox and St. Cloud State’s Jimmy Schuldt, who were the other members of the Hobey Hat Trick.

The Calgary native was also named a first-team All-American along with teammate Mitchell Chaffee. St. Cloud State led all schools with four All-America selections.

Wisconsin’s Jake Bunz claimed the Hockey Humanitarian Award as “college hockey’s finest citizen.” After a mission trip to benefit an orphanage in Haiti, Bunz became actively involved in the development of the Fond Blanc Foundation to further assist the orphanage.

“As we got on the bus to leave, I’m seeing all the kids and it just hit me, we’re going to go back and live this comfortable life back in the States and nothing is going to change for these kids,” Bunz said. “They’re going to stay in these same conditions. I looked at my mom and said, ‘You always told us not to turn our head from people in need. We need to do something about this.’ That was the catalyst and when the foundation started.”