Regarding goalies winning the Calder - there is no bias against them. Only 10% of an NHL roster is goalies, so we should expect that 10% of the Calder trophies are won by goalies. However, in every time frame you look at, goalies have lifted more than 10% of the trophies.
There has been a drought lately (it's been 15 years), but even with that drought, there have been 3 winners since the turn of the century (24 years). That's 12.5%. There have been 6 in the last 50 years (12%), and 16 in the history of the Calder (17.5%)
All pretty much as expected, statistically.
And if you think about how goalies are typically brought into the league (slowly and carefully), vs talented forwards (typically play full minutes right away), one would expect that goalies would have fewer Calders than expected statistically, not more.
tl/dr: goalies can win the Calder, and they're due to get one.
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