EDMONTON, AB - What a month for Oilers forward prospect Dylan Holloway.
The 2020 first-round draft pick has been selected as the Hockey Commissioners Association National Player of the Month after he scored 17 points in eight games with the Wisconsin Badgers.
Due in large part to his six goals and 11 assists in February, Holloway now leads the entire NCAA in points per game among players with more than eight appearances at 1.83.
The 14th-overall selection has 11 goals and 22 assists in 18 total games this season.
"From the second he stepped on campus this season, there was a confidence with him that you knew this was going to be the year he was going to pop," Wisconsin Head Coach Tony Granato told Bob Stauffer on Tuesday's episode of Oilers Now on 630 CHED. "I knew he would be an impact player offensively, but since he got back from World Juniors he's been lights-out."
Holloway is one of three Wisconsin players on the preliminary
2021 Hobey Baker Award ballot
alongside Montreal Canadiens prospect Cole Caufield and Buffalo Sabres pick Linus Weissbach.
The fifth-ranked Badgers will play a pair of road games against Michigan State this weekend.
FUTURE WATCH: Holloway named National Player of the Month
Oilers 2020 first-round draft pick scored 17 points in eight games last month to earn the NCAA honour for February
