Two University of Minnesota Duluth men's hockey players were named 2025-26 CCM/AHCA Hockey All-Americans Friday night at the NCAA Frozen Four Award ceremony part of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award. Sophomore winger Max Plante was named a 2025-26 CCM/AHCA Hockey West First Team All-American, while sophomore defenseman Ty Hanson was named a 2025-26 CCM/AHCA Hockey West Second Team All-American.

The duo becomes the first pair of Bulldog All-Americans since UMD had four players selected – Scott Perunovich (First Team), and three Second Team selections in Noah Cates, Cole Koepke, and Hunter Shepard.

Plante, a Hobey Baker Hat Trick Finalist who will find out whether or not he is college hockey's biggest winner shortly, was also named the College Hockey News Player of the Year earlier this week and was named an NCAA Tournament Albany Regional All-Tournament selection. A native of Hermantown, Minn., Plante was chosen the 2025-26 National Collegiate Hockey Conference Player of the Year – just the second Bulldog ever to land the honor, and became UMD's first NCHC Forward of the Year en route to earning a All-NCHC First Team selection. Plante finished the season with 52 points – the most by a Bulldog since 2011-12 – and his 26 goals – the second most in the NCAA to date – is the most since Mike Connolly put up 28 in 2010-11. One of just 28 players to have compiled 51 or more points in a single season in UMD program history (82 seasons,) Plante ranked third in the NCAA in total points (52), game-winning goals (6), eighth in power play goals (8) and points per game (1.30 ppg). 15 games this season Plante registered two or more points, including five with three or more. With a time on ice average of 21:50, Plante also owned a plus/minus rating of +19 and had his first career hat against the University of Omaha on Nov. 14.

Against teams in the 2026 NCAA Tournament, Plante had 15 points (6g, 9a) in 14 games, a 1.04 ppg, and that included three points in two NCAA Tournament games.

Hanson, named to the NCAA Tournament's Albany Regional All-Tournament Team, is coming off an incredible sophomore season, was a finalist for the 2025-26 NCHC's Offensive Defenseman of the Year. The Hermantown, Minn. was a All-NCHC Second Team honoree after spending most of the season as one of the most offensive-defenseman in the nation. Hanson finished the season with the second-most points in all of the NCAA with 36 points (10g, 26a). The alternate captain had a team-high on ice time average of 25:37 (also the sixth most ice time average in the nation), and eight multiple point games, including four contests with three points. On Nov. 14 against Omaha, Hanson became the first Bulldog defenseman in 25 years to score a hat trick, and he has three games with three or more assists and six games with two or more blocks. Also a critical part of UMD's NCAA second-best power play, he had 10 assists on the power play to pair with two power play goals for 12 power play points.  A three-time NCHC Defenseman of the Week award winner this season (Jan. 13, Nov. 11 and Oct. 7), Hanson was also named the NCHC Defenseman of the Month for October. An alternate captain, Hanson has never missed a game in two seasons at UMD, now having played in 76 consecutive games. 

The Bulldogs were one of four programs that had two or more selections, and Hanson and Plante were two of five sophomores named to teams. As a program, UMD now has 44 All-American selections in program history.