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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
This may be tuff to answer, but does anyone know the criteria for rookie of the year? Is it purely numbers driven, or do they look at the team on which the rookie plays, ie: the supporting cast around the player. Hertl has a bit of a stronger team and Monahan for example.
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It's voted on by the same people who voted Ovechkin as First All-Star Team right wing and Second All Star Team left wing last year. A lot of these people obviously don't do their homework, so name recognition is important. In that case higher scoring has always been favourable, but even playing in a big hockey crazed city could help the cause. And this is the case for pretty much every award they vote on
For the voters who know their stuff, the actual voting criteria is best rookie. That should mean the team they play for, supporting cast, defense, minutes, role, anything and everything (with the exception of age) playing a role. Age is a bit iffy, it's suppose to go to the best rookie regardless of age.
But the last forward to win the Calder and not lead the rookie scoring race I believe was Drury in 1999 (44 points in 79 games) who beat out his teammate Hejduk (48 points in 82 games). Last year Yakupov and Huberdeau tied with 31 points and the year before that when Landeskog and Hopkins tied in points but Hopkins missed a lot of games, but again I believe Drury was the last forward to win it and not at least tie for points.