Epic Calder Battle in 2024-25 Season

[Bizz]

Celebrini is carrying his linemates. Michkov is being carried.

 

[wetcoast]

It's going to be an awesome race with Michkov ending up with more points (slightly more GP advantage with 8 at this point) versus the 200 way game of Celebrini and a small part of me wants Celebrini to win because there will be more false outrage from their side than if Celebrini loses.

Either way we have 2 excellent players here who are going to be stars and perhaps superstars for a long time.

I thought that Stank might have a chance before the season but he simply doesn't get enough PP TOI compared to the 2 front runners and Hutson just doesn't have the 2 way game to be in the race like faber did last year.

Wolf probably rounds out my top 5 if I had a ballot.

 

[HeadLiceHatty]

It's going to be an awesome race with Michkov ending up with more points (slightly more GP advantage with 8 at this point) versus the 200 way game of Celebrini and a small part of me wants Celebrini to win because there will be more false outrage from their side than if Celebrini loses.

Either way we have 2 excellent players here who are going to be stars and perhaps superstars for a long time.

I thought that Stank might have a chance before the season but he simply doesn't get enough PP TOI compared to the 2 front runners and Hutson just doesn't have the 2 way game to be in the race like faber did last year.

Wolf probably rounds out my top 5 if I had a ballot.

Both players will be superstars, no one would be this pissed or aggressive on the board if only they had 1st line upside lol

 

[wetcoast]

Both players will be superstars, no one would be this pissed or aggressive on the board if only they had 1st line upside lol

That wasn't my point but thank you for making my point for me.

 

[HeadLiceHatty]

That wasn't my point but thank you for making my point for me.

That’s what I’m here for, although you post was better than mine . Definitely one of my favorite years watching hockey, should be a great finish. I highlighted/bolded in the quote what I was referring to lol

 

[OverTheLine]

Don't say this to the 8 sharks fans in here, they're going to go banana's lmaoo. Michkov will continue to widen the gap, I watch both players, its easy to catch Sharks games in an Asia time zone. It's so obvious even beyond the advanced stats that absolutely back it up lol. I just found out the other day someone saying how they have a whole thread dedicated to talking about people who support Michkov on main boards, but we're the copers hahahaha. Celebrini will be a great player but he will never win a Hart or a Ross imo, it is what it is, even his durability is in question and he's only 18, these things matter.

I still think Michkov is going to win the Calder, but you can't seriously be ragging on Sharks fans for having a pro-Celebrini thread in their own board? When you're posting about how Demidov (?!) is better than Celebrini... inside the Lane Hutson thread?

Celebrini is a near PPG 18 year-old with excellent analytics and a nearly 50% face-off win percentage while playing as a 1C against top-level competition. You've said you don't have a personal vendetta or anything against him but I find it hard to believe given you seem to think so poorly about him (despite his objectively impressive resume to date) that you're going out of your way to call him worse than a player who's never seen NHL ice in a thread that has nothing to do with either of them.

I'm not even one of these Sharks fans who doesn't like Michkov. I have a soft-spot for Russian wingers (I was, embarrassingly, one of those delusional Ovechkin-is-better-than-Crosby 'copers' back in the day) and think he has the potential to be the best wing in the league since Kucherov.

 

[Acallabeth]

Wow, Michkov with a defensive play of the year, saves a 100% goal with his stick on the goal line!

 

[SjMilhouse]

Dude is going to be a selke contender as a rookie. What can't he do?

 

[hohosaregood]

Dude is going to be a selke contender as a rookie. What can't he do?

Only rookie skater to actually stop a sure fire goal so far.

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

lol whoops . Was likely getting ready to tip it in but was entirely unnecessary

 

[Barrie22]

lol whoops . Was likely getting ready to tip it in but was entirely unnecessary

The way he puts his stick down and angles it makes it look like he did it on purpose also lol.

 

[Fraser28]

The way he puts his stick down and angles it makes it look like he did it on purpose also lol.

Part of me thinks he wanted a freebie goal for himself. Oops.

-2 today, accidentally took a sure goal away from his own team, and now 2 in a row without a point. None of those are a big deal at all and Michkov is awesome, but I do know what a couple Michkov fans would be saying if Celebrini had this outcome (based on how they’ve acted in the past).

 

[Juxtaposer]

lol whoops . Was likely getting ready to tip it in but was entirely unnecessary

I'm sure it was just a momentary brain fart, but optically it absolutely looks like he was trying to steal Konecny's goal.

 

[SjMilhouse]

Celebrini: .95ppg
Michkov: .93ppg

Michkov continues his magic of being the vastly superior offensive talent despite a lower PPG.

 

[matt trick]

Perhaps we could chill? Just enjoy two spectacular rookies. No one is winning or losing the calder tonight.

 

[CHALUPA]

Perhaps we could chill? Just enjoy two spectacular rookies. No one is winning or losing the calder tonight.

Not with that attitude

 

[Patty Ice]

I'm not even one of these Sharks fans who doesn't like Michkov.

There aren't many Sharks fans that dislike Michkov. The majority wanted to draft him in 2023. There hasn't even been any hate thrown his way. Most just have an issue that there's been a couple Philly fans that have to diminish Celebrini's game as a means of cope.

EDIT: I should have finished reading the thread of course...it was more a symptom of humbling Philly fans than any Michkov hate.

 

[SjMilhouse]

There aren't many Sharks fans that dislike Michkov. The majority wanted to draft him in 2023. There hasn't even been any hate thrown his way. Most just have an issue that there's been a couple Philly fans that have to diminish Celebrini's game as a means of cope.

EDIT: I should have finished reading the thread of course...it was more a symptom of humbling Philly fans than any Michkov hate.

I have no issue with Michkov, I wish we took him and he's having an incredible season.

 

[Barrie22]

There hasn't even really been any shark fans that have said that Celebrini should win it right now. Just people fighting the notion of michkov being miles ahead of every other rookie in this years class that it is laughable to even try and have a conversation about it.