The National Hockey League held their annual NHL Awards Show on Thursday (June 27) in Las Vegas, the day before the 2024 NHL Draft (June 28 and June 29). To absolutely no one’s surprise, the Chicago Blackhawks 2023 No. 1 overall draft pick Connor Bedard was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy, given once a year
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Owen Power, Mason McTavish, Matty Beniers, Kent Johnson, Jack Quinn. These are the names that continue to get mentioned when discussing potential Calder Trophy candidates, and rightfully so. All of these players are incredible young talents and are expected to make significant impacts with their respective clubs in their rookie seasons. One player who is
The chatter around the Detroit Red Wings almost exclusively pertains to one of two topics: the team’s vacant head coach position, and newly-crowned Calder Trophy winner Moritz Seider. So let’s catch up with all that chatter and see what else is happening regarding the team from Motown. Trotz, Quinn Confirmed to Interview with Red Wings
The 2021-22 NHL season is in full swing and several rookies have already jumped out as Calder Trophy contenders. To keep you up to date, we at The Hockey Writers have created the Calder Trophy Tracker, a veritable who’s who of the NHL’s top rookies this season. This will be updated and published monthly and
Oh, what must have been going through Dale Hawerchuk’s mind on Aug. 13, 1981. The 18-year-old stood at the corner of Winnipeg’s Portage and Main — the site supreme for public spectacles in the city — in front of nearly 1,000 Winnipeg Jets’ fans, who’d flocked to the heart of downtown over the lunch hour
Dallas Stars rookie winger Jason Robertson is finally being considered a finalist for the Calder Trophy. His first 10 games were uneventful. He recorded six points, including his first career NHL goal against the Chicago Blackhawks in February. He then exploded in March, scoring 16 points in 17 games and was quietly moved up to
The Minnesota Wild are off to one of their best starts in franchise history thanks to a couple of first-year NHLers. We are still in the early goings of the 2020-21 season but the first-year pros on the Wild have already made a name for themselves. In previous years, the Wild were characterized as a
The Calder Memorial Trophy is awarded to the best rookie every season. Next season, Gabriel Vilardi could become the Los Angeles Kings’ first Calder Trophy winner in over 30 years. The norm isn’t for Kings to win the Calder Trophy, however, Vilardi could carry on a trend that’s developed in the past three seasons that’s
Everyone loves when a young, exciting star comes into the NHL and dominates right out of the gate. The Calder Memorial Trophy is given out each year to the league’s best rookie, with many winners later taking home other hardware, such as the league’s Hart Memorial Trophy. Which Calder Trophy-winning seasons have been the best
Combine a gritty style of play with quick hands and fast feet, throw in a swagger that sat well with his movie-star good looks, mix well with his fair share of nastiness and you have the young Derek Sanderson, better known by his friends and teammates as “Turk”. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario,
report this ad Rookies (or “first-year players” as captain Zdeno Chara prefers) figured to play an integral role this season for the Boston Bruins. Eschewing the big-name free agent signings of years past and opting instead to ride the youth wave, success was to be largely predicated on the readiness of several promising prospects within
report this ad On March 19, Jared Clinton of The Hockey News wrote that the Vancouver Canucks’ Elias Petterson had a chance to become the first unanimous Calder Trophy winner since Teemu Selanne in 1992-93. That season, Selanne broke every rookie goal-scoring record in NHL history by collecting 76 goals and 56 assists, for an