Hurricanes prospect Jamie McBain has been named one of the 10 finalists for the 2009 Hobey Baker Award given to the nation's top college hockey player.

A junior defenseman at Wisconsin, McBain was named WCHA player of year. He has 36 points in 38 games (7 goals, 29 assists) — second in the nation in points by a defenseman. McBain has 24 of power-play points, fourth-best in the country.

The three finalists will be named April 2 and the Hobey Baker Award winner April 10 during the NCAA Frozen Four.

With all the fuss over recent draft picks Zach Boychuk and Zac Dalpe and soon-to-be Hurricanes fourth-line center Brandon Sutter, Jamie McBain has kind of slipped through the cracks this week.

Don't forget: The on-ice portion of this week's prospect conditioning camp starts at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday at the RecZone.

They'll be out there Thursday, Friday and Saturday as well. That group includes Brandon Sutter, Jamie McBain, Zach Boychuk and seven others who will get a crash course in Canes trainer Pete Friesen's lofty fitness expectations.

Michael Leighton is also a possibility to participate, harkening back to a different goalie at a different prospect conditioning camp. In August 2001, after taking a year off of hockey, a 36-year-old Tom Barrasso celebrated his return to the NHL by outrunning a bunch of kids almost 20 years his junior on the track at Cardinal Gibbons.

The previously posted RecZone ice times for next week's prospect conditioning camp have been changed.

Carolina's prospects will now be on the ice from 4:45-5:45 p.m. each day, Wednesday through Saturday.

Fans can get a look at four of the Hurricanes' blue-chip prospects during their annual conditioning camp, which starts next week and runs through July 12.

Brandon Sutter, the Hurricanes' first-round pick in 2007 and their expected fourth-line center this season, headlines a group that also includes Wisconsin defenseman Jamie McBain, 2008 first-round pick Zach Boychuk and 2008 second-round pick Zac Dalpe.