Epic Calder Race 2024-25

[Great Panda 2]

The chasm between Hutson and Lidstrom's defensive play is.... from here to Mars.

As rookies? Not really. The talk back 30 years ago was that Lidstrom showed a lot of potential to be a great dman defensively in his rookie year, the radio often talked about how he demonstrated his future elite defensive skills.

He became an absolute stud defensively but it took a few years. It wasnt until his 3-4th year in the league that he really had that elite defensive skills, he was always good but he didn't just come into the league elite defensively. He was well insulated defensively early in his career and slowly given more responsibility. He played with Konstantinov, Chiasson, Racine, McCrimmon... not to mention Yzerman, Carson, Federov, Sheppard, Probert, Primeau (well, okay. He was a rookie so he wasn't prime yet).

It's weird to compare a 20 year old to a player in his prime, comparing 20 year olds are better.

 

[CaptnNemo]

51 points for Lane now. I hope he can reach 61 points. To beat Lidstrom's rookie production!

He's at 53 not 51.

EDIT * My bad you are right! 51

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

I thought this thing was locked up for Celebrini, but gotta give Wolf a ton of credit. I'm kinda leaning towards him at this point.

Celebrini, Wolf, Hutson.. We're talking about future elite players here (if they aren't already) and that's not even mentioning Michkov & his immense potential.

Outstanding year for rookies. All 3 have a great case for the Calder, its tough to vote on this year.

 

[Star Platinum]

The question ain't about if Hutson will Win or not the Calder;

The real question is: aside of winning the Calder, will he also be nominated for either the Norris and/or the Hart?

 

[Barrie22]

Since montreal looked lost on that faceoff from the beginning, i am going to guess that was a set play by the kraken. So my only question is what in the world was the montreal players/coaching staff thinking lining up for the faceoff like that.