Half-Season Awards: Calder Memorial

[amnesiac]

Who is the league's best rookie UP TO NOW? (not who you think it will be at season's end)

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[amnesiac]

boooooooooring

 

[CP4]

boooooooooring

Yep

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Pettersson should win it, but he seems to keep getting hurt and might end up missing too many games to win it by season's end.

Hopefully this latest leg injury is minor and he doesn't miss much time. He's been phenomenal.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Pettersson is going to win the Calder, but I think the award should go to Dahlin.

 

[CP4]

Pettersson is going to win the Calder, but I think the award should go to Dahlin.

I respect your opinion, but I disagree.

 

[WonderTwinsUnite]

Pettersson is going to win the Calder, but I think the award should go to Dahlin.

Genuinely curious as to why? Especially given the way the question was phrased in the OP, upto this point in the season, I can't see an argument for Dahlin given Pettersson's start.

Don't get it twisted in that I think Dahlin isn't a phenom alongside Heiskanen - those two are having the best rookie seasons by defenders in recent memory

On that note, even assuming Pettersson didn't exist, what separates Dahlin from a guy like Heiskanen, given their near-identical scoring paces and the latter's signigicantly higher ice time?

 

[ESH]

Not that I would vote for him ahead of Pettersson, but Heiskanen should be an option. He's battling it out for 2nd with Dahlin right now.

 

[chewbaccaman]

Literally not one reason for this poll. It’s not a close race at all.

 

[SotasicA]

Well, Pettersson got assassinated by a brutal premeditated leg-lock, and died, so this thread is moot. Dahlin is all that matters, even if he wasn't the best so far.

 

[amnesiac]

Who is the league's best rookie UP TO NOW? (not who you think it will be at season's end)

just a reminder

 

[Future GOAT]

Pettersson, not close.

 

[Rubi]

Well, Pettersson got assassinated by a brutal premeditated leg-lock, and died, so this thread is moot. Dahlin is all that matters, even if he wasn't the best so far.

I hear the NHL is renaming the trophy as the Pettersson Memorial Trophy. RIP.

 

[Rowlet]

EP but poll needs more heskanen

 

[mouz135]

Pettersson is going to win the Calder, but I think the award should go to Dahlin.

Given Pettersson’s play so far, it should not.

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

Why isnt Heiskanen an option?

 

[Ace of Hades]

I have it as:

1) EP40
2)Dahlin/Heiskanen

The rest.

 

[Mestaruus]

Pettersson wins but come on, give Heiskanen a nomination and drop Dahlin or Tkachuk.

 

[M88K]

I was going to vote Pettersen because come on, but then i noticed you excluded the 2nd/3rd best option so i went other. You know who you excluded

 

[LaMasquerade]

There's an NHL team in Dallas too...

 

[Addison Rae]

Pettersson is going to win the Calder, but I think the award should go to Dahlin.

Come on now.

 

[JFG]

Who cares about missing options? This poll should only have one option.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Pettersson
Dahlin/Heiskanen
Tkachuk
The Rest

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Genuinely curious as to why? Especially given the way the question was phrased in the OP, upto this point in the season, I can't see an argument for Dahlin given Pettersson's start.

Don't get it twisted in that I think Dahlin isn't a phenom alongside Heiskanen - those two are having the best rookie seasons by defenders in recent memory

On that note, even assuming Pettersson didn't exist, what separates Dahlin from a guy like Heiskanen, given their near-identical scoring paces and the latter's signigicantly higher ice time?

Rookie of the year should not only be the best statistical performance, it should regard the best performance taking into account age and talent. I know a lot of people disagree with that, but thats my opinion. I think its not just an award about who has the best statistical performance in a given season. I think its an award about who you want representing the league in that category for that given year.

I also think you could make a good case that what Dahlin is doing this season has less precedent than what Pettersson is doing. Dahlin's having one of the 2-3 best 18 year old seasons for a defenseman. Pettersson's 20 year old season probably doesn't even reach the top 30 of 20 year old seasons. He'll score a lot more points, but I don't think thats all the award should be.

 

[NyQuil]

Rookie of the year should not only be the best statistical performance, it should regard the best performance taking into account age and talent.

Nope.

Too arbitrary.

There’s already an age limit thanks to Makarov.