2023-24 Calder Memorial Trophy finalists: Connor Bedard, Brock Faber, Luke Hughes | Winner: Connor Bedard

[clydesdale line]

Wild fans in shambles.

 

[Hattrick Kane]

 

[Wally1112pac]

Sorry, Faber. You never had a chance.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

The obvious and no duh choice.

 

[Obvious Fabertism]

Pretty satisfied with the results, 42 first place votes is nothing to slouch at for a defenseman with Faber's playstyle. It was an incredible season that no one can take away.

Remember, the Calder prediction topic here didn’t even have him as a mention, expectations for him were not high in the general sphere.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Full voting results:

The voters who had Bedard and Hughes anywhere but 1-2 should have to explain themselves

Idiotiic nonsense

 

[Fraser28]

The voters who had Bedard and Hughes anywhere but 1-2 should have to explain themselves

Idiotiic nonsense

What’s wrong with Faber at 2?

 

[Mrfenn92]

The voters who had Bedard and Hughes anywhere but 1-2 should have to explain themselves

Idiotiic nonsense

Faber was great this year

 

[Regal]

What’s wrong with Faber at 2?

Don’t see how anyone could have had Hughes over Faber tbh.

 

[William H Bonney]

Anyone who would put Hughes over Faber this season wasn't watching any games

 

[nbwingsfan]

This was always going to be Bedard

 

[rynryn]

knew this would happen. disagree but it's not like when Brodin got robbed. Bedard totally deserving.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Full voting results:

Seems right.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Seems right.

Yep. Bedard was going to win but it wasn't a blow out.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Honestly surprised it was that close between Bedard and Faber.

 

[wetcoast]

Honestly surprised it was that close between Bedard and Faber.

The injury made it close and Faber did have an exceptional year.

Minny fans should be happy with Faber being the cornerstone on their backend for a decade.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Honestly surprised it was that close between Bedard and Faber.

I am surprised they voted it that way but it reflects the actual season results. Bedard was good but nothing earth shattering, plus he missed time

 

[FLAMESFAN]

This was always going to be Bedard

Ya, but a whole group of people just wouldn't accept that.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Ya, but a whole group of people just wouldn't accept that.

It really depended on when Bedard came back and what shape he was in.

 

[kingsfan28]

Yep. Bedard was going to win but it wasn't a blow out.

152-42 first place votes wasn't a blow out? Faber picked up all his votes as 2nd . Solid year for both.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

152-42 first place votes wasn't a blow out? Faber picked up all his votes as 2nd . Solid year for both.

Maybe relatively.

Matthews won 164-3
Barzal won 160-2
Kaprizov won 99-1

 

[thestonedkoala]

Maybe relatively.

Matthews won 164-3
Barzal won 160-2
Kaprizov won 99-1

And you could argue that Kaprizov and Robertson was a lot more even - yet Kaprizov blew him out. The fact that Faber got 46 first place votes is a huge win - most second place winners get like 20-25 at most.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Congrats Fabe....I mean Bedard. Lol

Wasn't even in question

 

[State of Hockey]

Honestly surprised it was that close between Bedard and Faber.

At first look it does seem pretty close when you look at the total points. But when there's no strong 3rd-place contestant, 1st and 2nd will still look fairly close even if 1st wins nearly all 1st place votes. Bedard was first place in over 3 of 4 ballots, so it was a convincing win for him considering the high media hype creation for Faber.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Congrats to Conner but Faber will end up having the better career.