title: MAAC Defensive Player of the Year
text: # MAAC Defensive Player of the Year
  
  The MAAC Defensive Player of the Year was an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season to the best defensive men's ice hockey player in the conference as voted by the coaches of each MAAC team.
  
  The award was discontinued after 2002-03 when the MAAC ice hockey conference was dissolved and all remaining programs reformed in Atlantic Hockey.
  
  ## Award winners
  
  | Year | Winner | Position | School |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1998–99 | Dan Ennis | Defenceman | Quinnipiac |
  | 1999–00 | Paul Colontino | Defenceman | Mercyhurst |
  | | Steve Tobio | Defenceman | Bentley |
  | 2000-00 | Nathan Lutz | Defenceman | Iona |
  | 2001-02 | Steve Tobio | Defenceman | Bentley |
  | 2002-03 | Wade Winkler | Defenceman | Quinnipiac |
  