Ottawa's Derian Plouffe earns Hobey Baker Award nomination after comeback from brain injury

When he was lying in the intensive care unit of a Buffalo hospital 14 months ago, Derian Plouffe wasn’t thinking about hockey awards.
The Shawville native and Ottawa resident hoped to be able to play the game again.
That was all.
In his wildest fantasies, Plouffe couldn’t have envisioned a comeback from a brain injury that would have him among the top 20 vote-getters in the early nominations for the 2018 Hobey Baker Award, presented to the NCAA’s top men’s hockey player.