By By Jared Sugerman, News Staff

For years, Brad Thiessen has been here, there and everywhere, according to Northeastern hockey fans. Now, their words ring more truthfully than ever.
Thiessen39.com, a website devoted to Northeastern’s junior goaltender and national player of the year award candidate, the Hobey Baker Award, launched March 4, thanks to a collaborative effort between Northeastern’s Sports Information Department and The Pack Network.
The website features an introductory video highlighting some of Thiessen’s more notable statistics and on-camera moments, as well as a few of his accumulated awards and honors. Additionally, visitors to Thiessen39.com can peruse his player biography, read comments from opposing players and coaches who have watched Thiessen play first hand and view photographs of the goalie during play.
‘When someone is up for a national award like this, that’s going to be voted on by a committee, the point is to put together a site with compelling information for that committee to put our candidate in the best position possible,’ said Northeastern Sports Information Director and project manager Jon Litchfield. ‘For the Hobey Baker Award specifically there’s people from all around the country that are going to vote on this thing.’
Litchfield added that many of the voters haven’t seen Thiessen play.
Thiessen has played the most minutes in Division 1 college hockey this year, and he is among the Division 1 leaders in total saves made, earning him the monicker ‘College Hockey’s Iron Man.’ His .931 save percentage and 2.12 goals-against-average rank sixth and 11 in the nation, respectively.
‘I think if you kind of get caught up in it, and are searching on the web for different things and reading about it, it can take over,’ Thiessen said. ‘But you try not to read anything, not to go on the Internet looking at different college hockey sites talking about that kind of stuff. I think, if I keep my focus on the task at hand and the on-ice performance and the team, I think it will be alright.’
Thiessen has also been featured on insidecollegehockey.com‘s ‘Hobey Tracker,’ alongside the likes of Boston University sophomore forward Colin Wilson, a top-10 pick in last year’s NHL draft.
Senior forward and captain Joe Vitale has also been nominated for the Hobey Baker award, which will be handed out April 10 at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C., the site of this season’s Frozen Four.