Hutson is great but I just don't see a world where he's a serious threat to Mack. Like most small defensemen, he's pretty solid positionally and has a good stick, but he just gets lost too many times on cycles and obviously struggles mightily in front of the net.
It's little things like this play last night:
He's defending his guy, guy easily shakes him off, makes the pass to the center easily because the forward who should have been defending Miller was drawn to Hutson's man because he lost coverage. Not solely Hutson's fault by any means, but this is the area where he struggles a lot.
I agree but voters do like numbers and big markets. Karlsson won the Norris with gaudy point totals.
If Hutson outscores Celebrini wouldn't shock me if he gets it