I love what Binny has done, but I can't give a season-long award to a guy who will play less than 35 games when there is a candidate who has played as well as Pettersson has. Even for a goalie, who isn't expected to play 82, less than 35 games just isn't a big enough sample size for me. Especially since his start total will likely be 29 or 30.
Pettersson is just under a point per game player through 68 games. His drop in production after the 50 game mark illustrates why I don't think it is fair to give Binny the award based on 30 starts. Part of the difficulty of being an NHL rookie is adjusting to the grind in the best league in the world. Pettersson's 65 points in 68 games take the effect of that grind into consideration. Taking just his first 50 games into consideration, he had 54 points. 35 points in his first 30. While there has been a drop in production, he has maintained a 75+ point pace, which is pretty damn remarkable.
Binny has also seen a dip in production from his other-worldy numbers, sporting a .913 over his last 10 starts. That's absolutely not bad, but it suggests that he would likely be posting 'good-but-not-elite' numbers over a 50+ game sample size.
FWIW, my Calder top 5 is identical to Halak Ness Monster's. Binny's great play through 30 games was enough to overcome the other rookies, but not a kid who is just shy of PPG in his first NHL season and doing it with a pretty underwhelming supporting cast.
Shame we don't have 'not like' button