Calder/Vezina Trophy Question (Hutchinson)

[Jets4Life]

How many games does a goaltender have to play, in order to be in the running for either the Calder or Vezina Trophies? Would 45 be enough?

Hutchinson has been lights out for the Jets. Leading the league in GAA and save %. It's only a matter of time becomes the #1 starting goalie in the organization, as he is 7-2-2 this year. 1.73 GAA, 0.940%

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[Eisen]

How many games does a goaltender have to play, in order to be in the running for either the Calder or Vezina Trophies? Would 45 be enough?

Hutchinson has been lights out for the Jets. Leading the league in GAA and save %. It's only a matter of time becomes the #1 starting goalie in the organization, as he is 7-2-2 this year. 1.73 GAA, 0.940%

I doubt it. 45 seems low.

 

[njdevils1982]

I doubt it. 45 seems low.

brodeur won the calder playing 47 games in 94…..ya ya, 2 more than 45

terreri played 44…..sidorkiewicz 3

 

[StaticPrevails]

I doubt it. 45 seems low.

Yeah there's no way Hutch will get up to 45 games this season. Pavelec would be limited to 15 games for the rest of the season and with the Jets love affair with him that won't happen.

 

[Paris in Flames]

45 might be enough to get consideration for the Calder assuming his numbers stay up there.

No chance for the Vezina unless Rinne's play plunges off a cliff.

 

[TrillMike]

Probably not, but you never know.

 

[sharks9]

Not enough for the Vezina, probably not enough for the Calder either with the way Forsberg is playing

 

[almostawake]

If he maintained .940 and 1.73 and go to 45 games he'd win the Calder.

For the Vezina, he'd be in tough. If no starter (say 55+ games) had a save percentage greater than 93% then he'd have a shot.

IMO there is literally no chance he maintains those numbers though. As a Jets fan I'd be more than happy if he finished with .930 and 2.20.

 

[Jets4Life]

Yeah there's no way Hutch will get up to 45 games this season. Pavelec would be limited to 15 games for the rest of the season and with the Jets love affair with him that won't happen.

I think Jets management has seen the light. Hutch has been getting more starts than Montoya did last year, as both are outplaying Pavelec. The fans love Hutch too. I'm actually expecting Jets management to play Hutch for more games than Pavs in the second half, as historically Pavelec fizzles out by late January.

 

[HydroF]

If he could get 45 games, ya that would be enough for both. However, when choosing Vezina number of games played has value, and a goalie putting up similar numbers playing 60+ games is easily going to be chosen over a guy who plays 45. I highly doubt if he gets 45 games his numbers are going to end up being so far above some of the front runners that his low number of starts will be over looked.

Calder is definitely a possibility though.

 

[GoAwayDanCleary]

If he maintained .940 and 1.73 and go to 45 games he'd win the Calder.

For the Vezina, he'd be in tough. If no starter (say 55+ games) had a save percentage greater than 93% then he'd have a shot.

IMO there is literally no chance he maintains those numbers though. As a Jets fan I'd be more than happy if he finished with .930 and 2.20.

I'd hope you'd be happy with that because that'd be a ridiculous stat line for a goalie, let alone a rookie.

 

[TCIH]

I'm not sure what the official cutoff is, but I've always considered a reasonable minimum to be two-thirds of the team's games. That's 54 in an 82 game season.

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Vezina winner GP since lockout:

05/06 Kiprusoff 74
06/07 Brodeur   78
07/08 Brodeur   77
08/09 Thomas    54
09/10 Miller    69
10/11 Thomas    57
11/12 Lundqvist 62
12/13 Bobrovsky 38 (65)*
13/14 Rask      58

* prorated for 82 game season[/FONT]

 

[613Leafer]

I'd say 55+ for the Vezina. Most winners have been quite a bit higher than that, so that would be on the low-end.

For the Calder, Mason won with 61 games, Raycroft with 57, and Nabokov with 66. So again, seems to be 55+. Carey Price didn't win in 2007-2008, and the main criticism I recall being that he had only played 41 games.