Epic Calder Race 2024-25

If you take out the 70s and 80s Hutson is about the put up the best rookie season in dman history. Only lidstrom is ahead of him for guys not from that era.
I think it would be more accurate to say that among the top 10 rookie dmen's seasons, Hutson has among the very the highest point percentage of total goals scored by the team.

As an example, Larry Murphy had 76 points on a Kings team that scored 337 goals, or points on 22.6% of his teams goals.

The commonly referenced Nick Lidstrom rookie season, he scored 60 points on 320 Red wings goals that season (18.75%).

Chelios had 64 points on a team that scored 309 (22.4% when accounting for missed games)

Hutson has 56 points on 216 habs goals (25.9%)

A more modern comparison, Cale Makar scored 50 points in 57 games on a team that scored 3.38 gf/gp, or approximately 193 goals in those 57 games (25.9%).

Quinn Hughes that same season accounted for 53 in 68 games on a team that scored 228 in 69, or about 23.5%.
 
There was a good chunk of the season where Michkov was getting 10 min a night. Many argued it was bc he was tired and struggling, so Torts had to limit his ice time.
By good chunk do you mean the 4 games with less than 12 Minutes (3 were under 10 and the other one was 11:27)?


We now can see that argument was BS. Michkovs lack of production durimg that stretch was bc of Torts limiting his ice time.

Anytime he plays 17+ minutes he shines.
Also not really true by why let facts get in the way eh?

Anyone can look up his game logs here.

 
By good chunk do you mean the 4 games with less than 12 Minutes (3 were under 10 and the other one was 11:27)?



Also not really true by why let facts get in the way eh?

Anyone can look up his game logs here.


...or you can actually watch the games?

Anyone who has watched the Flyers all season knows the damage Torts did to Michkovs game.
 
If you take out the 70s and 80s Hutson is about the put up the best rookie season in dman history. Only lidstrom is ahead of him for guys not from that era.
This is beyond funny to me

Shayne Gostisbehere easily had a better rookie season than Hutson, both offensively and by far defensively

17 goals
29 assist (14 secondary)
46 points in 64 games
Points per 60: 2.71

VS

5 goals
51 assist (30 secondary)
56 points in 72 games
Points per 60: 2.06

As far as the rookie race goes, it's hard to really compare Hutson to wolf to the forwards. On paper and on paper alone it's easy to say Hutson but when you watch the games it's easy to eliminate Hutson.

What I don't understand is how player A with the same amount of assist, 3 more goals, 3 more points, same total minutes, 1st in ESP, 1st in primary points can be a +4400 to win a Calder vs player B who is a +160. There's a clear Canadian boy #1 overall pick hype agenda and a bad man Russian hype agenda going on when you compare the apples to apples being the two forwards.

Calder if it ended today

1. Michkov
2. Celebrini
3. Wolf

A player playing defense cannot be considered for any awards when he doesn't do his job and play defense.
 
While it's close, Hutson is still clearly ahead. It's like the 99th percentile vs the 98th percentile - it is very close, but one is just ahead. And that's no slight on Celebrini, or Wolf for that matter, or even Michkov who I thought was going to win coming into this season. Hutson is the best player on a team that is holding onto the WC2 spot, and could potentially break records and is scoring at a pace that only HOF/future HOFers have done.
Hutson is nowhere near the best player on the Habs, he's not 2nd best either.
 
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One is having a historical rookie season and breaking records, the others are having great rookie seasons similar to what hundreds of other rookies have had.
Zero of them are having historic seasons or breaking records.

Only record I've seen so far is NHL record for percentage of points coming by way of secondary assist for a player scoring 50 or more points at 56%, which was previously held at 53% and that was from a random blue Twitter check account so who knows if that's even a record
 
sixgiev did his thing, let in 3 MD and 2 LD chance goals. celebrini had 66% xGF, 65% SCF, led the team in individual offense, comes away with nothing. story of his season.
Maybe he should work on his leadership skills to inspire his teammates to play better :sarcasm:
Calder is the most useless award in the league. I mean Tyler Myers won it, and McDavid didn't..
Doesn't it increases player's pay day?
 
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Hutson is on a much better team - a team that doesn't seem to want to play defense even when they are on the verge of a playoff spot. :facepalm: Praising a D-Man on a team that's given up 20 goals in the last 4 games (all losses) while trying to make the post season seems "off" to me but we ALL have our biases - myself included.

Celebrini is an 18 year old on the worst team in the NHL. He plays a terrific 200 foot game. He is close to PPG. He has also played 12 / 13 less games.

Celebrini would have my vote.
You don't get points for missing games you lose them in terms of the voting

Identical players that put up 30 goals and 30 assist but one plays 82 games VS the others 70, the player playing 82 games would get the nod. That's been explained at length during the Panarin vs McDavid vs Gostisbehere year from the voters and articles.
 
Soo I know people aren't arguing in good faith but let's look at what the stats actually say. Individual vs on-ice is a proxy for how much the individual impacts the game vs how good the team is overall:

Celebrini

Hutson

Michkov

It is hard to compare defensemen to forwards directly, the ranges are different, but you can see that Celebrini leads almost all the individual stats in far fewer games, and you can see Philly and Montreal are both significantly better teams than SJ. Hutson has about 45% more ice time on the season than either forward as well.
1.. playing less games significantly helps Celebrini with these stats

2. SJ isn't significantly worse than philly
 
He's definitely not excellent defensively, but he's been passable in his own zone for a while now. He had a rough first 5-6 weeks learning what he could get away with, but his underlying numbers are actually quite good since then. He's still a limited player in obvious ways, but he's done a really good job adjusting. And his offensive game more than makes up for any deficiencies in his defensive play.

He leads all Habs dmen in 5v5 goal differential this year (+6) and is 3rd on the team in scoring. Hard to argue he's not a big reason for their success this year.

Celebrini is awesome BTW. What a gem. I severely underrated how good his skating would translate.
Passable in JUCO college maybe where they just push F GPA students through for athletic programs.

It's okay to be honest, he is brutally bad defensively
 

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