Heavy Dee
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Speculation: Can Stu win he Calder?
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He should be the Calder winner but the noise has been all Beniers all season, especially with the severely out of touch US based eastern hockey media who believe everything in Edmonton is tainted because of the so called McDavid effect.
bone
5-14-6-1
Matt Murray went 32-10-4 with 2.41 GAA and .923 save percentage in his rookie season and only finished 4th, so I'm doubtful he wins, but could make the nomination cut off. That said, Murray had tougher competition with Matthews (40 goals), Laine (36 goals) and Werenski (47 points as a rookie dman)
It would be funny if this factored in considering everyone likes to say McDavid is trash defensively, but now he's the reason a rookie goalie is having a good year.
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Seravali said Skinner is getting his vote so it will be interesting I see how many others feel the same.
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VainGretzky
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Come on we all know Skinner is a product of McDavid
He probably should be in the conversation if only because the rookie class this year is so pedestrian. His numbers don’t really jump out as Calder worthy in other years.
It seems like it’s been Matty Berniers predestined to win it the whole year though regardless of if he deserves it or not.
It seems like it’s been Matty Berniers predestined to win it the whole year though regardless of if he deserves it or not.
Media group think might work in our favour this time. Usually it takes one establishment media guy to declare his vote and the rest go along.
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I believe media writes vote on the trophy.
I think Skinner should be in consideration. Berniers has been good but not really anything special. But fact that no one in the media has overly talked about him, I cant see him winning (but Seravelli has mentioned him so who knows). Probably be a finalist though.
I think Skinner should be in consideration. Berniers has been good but not really anything special. But fact that no one in the media has overly talked about him, I cant see him winning (but Seravelli has mentioned him so who knows). Probably be a finalist though.
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bone
5-14-6-1
It's an interesting year. The last two goalie Calder winners were Steve Mason and Andrew Raycroft and they did so with much better stats than Stu's.
However, this year is the highest scoring season since 1993-94 with many 100 point scorers yet, the best scoring rookie this year wouldn't have been top 3 in most of the recent years, and the fact that scoring is up so much may help Stu's case when comparing to past Calder winning goalies (Brodeur was 27-11-8 and .915 in that aforementioned 93-94 season in winning the Calder)
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It's a 2 horse race between Berniers and Skinner but forwards usually win this award.
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If Nuge and McDavid couldn't win it...ehhh it's tough. Although theres a lot of league wide angst surrounding Nuge and McDavid going to Edmonton. Skinner is just a damn good story.
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Skinner has been more impressive than Beniers. The month Skinner pulled off blows anything Beniers has done all season. Skinner also might end up with 30 wins. You can't present the calder to a rookie with less than 60 points over a rookie goaltender who took over the starting role and will play an important role on a team looking to win the cup.
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bone
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Eberle.... pumps up Barzal's value before being found expendable (Barzal settles down a little)Bah! Beniers is just a function of Eberle!
Eberle.... now pumping up Benier's value. He sure likes playing with young Matthew's.
Maybe he wasn't the best option to move out after all. (Granted Ebs away from Beniers isn't that great either).
He seems to be the perfect complementary player to other good players. Even though I couldn't see how the cap could work but picture him as the 6th forward on this team playing the right side (only $2.4 more than KYs cap hit).
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It's a good year for him to win it. He's been great, and there hasn't been any obvious choices for the Calder.
guymez
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Good to see that the board is finally recognizing Skinner for what he has done this year.
Many of the posts on here the last 3 months clearly didnt factor in the reality that Skinner is a rookie.
I personally dont care if he wins the Calder or not. As this team approaches game 83 I just want him to continue to build on what he has accomplished so far.
Many of the posts on here the last 3 months clearly didnt factor in the reality that Skinner is a rookie.
I personally dont care if he wins the Calder or not. As this team approaches game 83 I just want him to continue to build on what he has accomplished so far.
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I prefer if Skinner was the Stanley Cup winner rather than the Calder winner. 
guymez
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My thoughts exactly.I prefer if Skinner was the Stanley Cup winner rather than the Calder winner.
bone
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I was going to say, I'd settle for a Conn Smyth rather than Calder. If he's has a great playoff run, I have hard time seeing Edmonton being knocked out.I prefer if Skinner was the Stanley Cup winner rather than the Calder winner.
