The Race for the Calder Trophy

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Meh, I see nothing heretical about it.
When you get old, "change" scares you. See the sign...

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Faber has been playing 30 minutes a night with Middleton, and the broken corpses of Merrill and Goligoski around. Not to mention...uhhh Damon Hunt another rookie and Mermis who is a AHLer at this point. Let's not pump the tires on Bedard playing with no body when Faber is doing this.

Dude has 2 goals in 31 games...
 
Unfortunately the award has become a scoring title for rookies. It's a bit unfair, there should be a defensive & offensive rookie of the year award. It's hard to compare Bedard to Faber, you can find a legit argument for both to win the Calder trophy.

So we shouldn't consider Gretzky to be the greatest?
 
Faber has been great and made it at least close. But it is Bedard and not just because omg points. Bedard is just the best rookie and the most impactful rookie as well.

The Hawks are brutal and have zero scoring talent to help out and teams know it. Perfect example tonight against St Louis. Hawks pull the goalie and even with a 6 on 5 St Louis sent two guys after Bedard everytime he touched the puck. They basically said we won't let Bedard get anything and leave 3 guys to defend these other 5 shmucks. Other teams are game planning to stop Bedard every game. No other rookie gets that type of attention from the other team/coachs.

If this kid was on a decent NHL team with some skill at forward and a NHL level PP, he is a 100 point center right now.
 
People get upset about these types of goals but you never hear them complain about assists off the gloves or skates of players.
yeah it's a real demonstration of hand/eye and shows a confidence people should want in a player. i do not understand why people don't like it. As with anything, the more players pull this off, the sooner tendies will find a way to train to shut it down and we'll be back to applauding a bunch of people for "being in the right place at the right time" and having pucks ping off their pads into the net.
 
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