Epic Calder Race 2024-25

[Jurivan Demidovsky]

Hutson another measly 1 point game.. do better.

 

[tiburon12]

Man i wanted Hutson to go end-end when he stripped Kreider in OT. You could see it coming too. Would have been $$$

 

[MangoX]

Hutson is on an amazing 8 game point streak with 12 points! (one goal, 11 assists).

 

[Crosby2010]

In almost any scenario, a defenseman who has as many points as a forward is going to win the award. So right now it is Hutson leading the race here. Michkov and Celebrini are the other candidates. I'm taking Celebrini over Michkov simply because Celebrini missed more time and is still right with him. Hutson is the leading guy here though I think. Unless Celebrini puts on a clinic in the 2nd half of the season and Hutson cools off. So it is between those two for sure. Bedard and Faber last year were the two guys but Bedard had several more points in less games since he missed 13 games. So for a forward to win over a defenseman I think he needs to do that pretty much. Celebrini still could do it though.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

I'm going to guess that Hutson having his worst game of the season after playing like a superstar for an extended stretch wasn't because Toronto cracked the code on him but because Hutson just had a really bad game.

All players have strengths and weaknesses. His was on display. Believe it or not, it is entirely possible for other players to influence the outcome.

Reminds me of when Chara was in his prime. I forget which team it was against but I had said before the series started if I was the coach I would tell my players to dump it in his corner every time and forecheck and hit him hard over and over again. Make him hear footsteps, make him feel pain.....wear him down. Everyone mocked and babbled about rushes the other way blah blah blah. Turns out the team in question did exactly that and completely neutered him from that series.

 

[Dondini3]

All rookies had bad games once in a while. No big deal. The Habs should have lost against the Rangers. Hutson made a rush that allowed Slaf to score to tie the game and then Laine won it in OT. So the Habs lost two points against the Leafs because of Hutson bad play. But he made up for that with the game against the Rangers.

Not really sure what game you are watching but the habs were the much better team against the rangers. Rangers had the lead most of the game yes but that third period was insane and quick was bailing them out all game. Bad luck on the bounce goal. Some lazy plays on goals 1 and 4 and terrible reffing on goal 3. But the habs had many more high danger chances than the rangers. Dobes was a bit shaky and didn’t really need to do much until overtime

 

[Frank Drebin]

eminds me of when Chara was in his prime. I forget which team it was against but I had said before the series started if I was the coach I would tell my players to dump it in his corner every time and forecheck and hit him hard over and over again. Make him hear footsteps, make him feel pain.....wear him down

brilliant, wonder if nhl teams have ever thought of this

 

[JustAHabFan]

Not really sure what game you are watching but the habs were the much better team against the rangers. Rangers had the lead most of the game yes but that third period was insane and quick was bailing them out all game. Bad luck on the bounce goal. Some lazy plays on goals 1 and 4 and terrible reffing on goal 3. But the habs had many more high danger chances than the rangers. Dobes was a bit shaky and didn’t really need to do much until overtime

I know the Habs dominated the Rangers but Quick played so well that Habs could lose 3-4 if Hutson didn’t make that rush to allow Slaf to tie game. Dominating the game doesn't mean you win the game. When Slaf tied the game, there were less than 7 minutes remained in the game.

 

[Dondini3]

I know the Habs dominated the Rangers but Quick played so well that Habs could lose 3-4 if Hutson didn’t make that rush to allow Slaf to tie game. Dominating the game doesn't mean you win the game. When Slaf tied the game, there were less than 7 minutes remained in the game.

Yes the way you explained it, I agree 100%. Happy to get the win. I had a game myself Saturday night and only watched the first period. My team got pumped and the habs got pumped that night so I haven’t looked much into what went wrong for the habs Saturday night lol. All I seen was Hutson -5 and that Woll played great

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

The closer Hutson gets to reach rookie D records, the least likely the other candidates will win it.

He's 25 assists away from tying the record. 17 ES points from tying the record. 38 total points from the record.

He has 27 points in his last 25 games. 24 assists in 25 games. 16 ES points in 25 games.

He has 36 games left to play.

It's looking more and more likely like he'll be only the 3rd rookie dman in NHL history to reach 70 points. More and more likely he'll get to 60+ assists. More and more likely he'll get to 40+ ES points.

If the betting line is still high for Hutson, take the bet.

 

[Essenege]

All players have strengths and weaknesses. His was on display. Believe it or not, it is entirely possible for other players to influence the outcome.

I mean your kind of right, although let’s not blow this out of proportion. McMann and Nylander goals were kind of weird turnovers, 80% of Ds get caught there. Matthews goal was from the outside and it’s a shot you give the forward all day (xgoal on that shot was .03)

Hutson has not been bad at all this year defensively but he still has learning to do against top offensive forwards and the leafs have a few of them…There’s no players like this in college….

 

[wetcoast]

I mean your kind of right, although let’s not blow this out of proportion. McMann and Nylander goals were kind of weird turnovers, 80% of Ds get caught there. Matthews goal was from the outside and it’s a shot you give the forward all day (xgoal on that shot was .03)

Hutson has not been bad at all this year defensively but he still has learning to do against top offensive forwards and the leafs have a few of them…There’s no players like this in college….

Matthews goal was form a turnover from Hutson at the Leaf line and then he was lost defensively, he had a horrible game, maybe not as bad as the +/- indicates but it is what it was just horrible.

Saturday was a really bad game for Hutson, no way to sugar coat it and Sunday not so great either but it will be interesting what the voters are leaning next time some good information comes out because Celebrini has been playing with garbage for a while now and while Wolf has made progress he seems unlikely to be in the top 2 any time soon.

Michkov will be lucky to be a finalist IMO.