[News] Canadiens D Hutson wins Calder Trophy, Wolf #2

[FanSince'01]

I'm okay with this. Wolfie's a gamer and this will only add fuel to the fire

[Kipper_3434]

Wolf is my Fav player but Hutson deserved it 100%

[Freeway]

From my personal experience, it was a two-horse race in voting.

[ResAlien]

Sets the bar for Parekh's campaign next year. Need a snake prolly

[Remember1989]

Was Hutson drafted with the pick the Coilers sent in exchange for Kulak?

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

Wolf padded his stats against bottom feeders. Got the job done but his deployment was curated

Is this true? I just manually counted his starts against bottom feeders and I counted 20 of his 56 starts only.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/player/game...52/dustin-wolf

[JD]

To not vote for Wolf in the top 5 is absurd. Like was said, the voting totals got it right in the end, but every year stuff like this happens.

[FBI]

Wolf wasn't doing bottom feeders at the end of the season that's for sure..

[Yamer]

Not even mad. Without Hutson having the unreal season he did, Wolf would have walked away with it.

[Locke]

Who let the French vote? They did that a few hundred years ago and it hasnt gone well ever since!

[Steve's Stick]

Originally Posted by Remember1989

Was Hutson drafted with the pick the Coilers sent in exchange for Kulak?

Yes, which is good.

Then you remember the Wiz traded Kulak to MTL for Rinat Valiev and Matt Taormina...

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Tbull8

Not shocking, especially since the Flames didnt make the playoffs and the Habs did

I hope this wasnt a factor considering the point totals

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

Well deserved

Hutson was very impressive to watch. The Habs are going to have a good core to build on for a while now, with him anchoring the D. (Still can’t believe Tre traded a first with Monahan, then they got another first when they traded him, but that’s another story)

Wolf padded his stats against bottom feeders. Got the job done but his deployment was curated

Not sure I agree on the word "padded" ...

I have the splits like this

Opponent
.500 or worse Wolf 73% Vladar 70%
.600 or better Wolf 27% Vladar 30%

or pretty even

Results vs Opposition (% of wins)
.500 or worse Wolf 75% Vladar 83%
.600 or better Wolf 25% Vladar 17%

Vladar with a greater % of wins against non playoff teams

I think they started that way for sure, but it leveled off.

In the end Wolf had 14 starts against elite teams to Vladar's 9

[Steve's Stick]

Originally Posted by activeStick

Is this true? I just manually counted his starts against bottom feeders and I counted 20 of his 56 starts only.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/player/game...52/dustin-wolf

No, it's not. October yes, but after that, no.

Wolf and Hutson had the two best rookie seasons in the last five years, they just happened to coincide.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Remember1989

Was Hutson drafted with the pick the Coilers sent in exchange for Kulak?

Hope so.

Part of the Flames secret plan to prevent the Oilers from winning the cup. Trade Kulak to the Canadiens, who will then deal him to the Oilers in exchange for Hutton. Goes along with the Flames trading their best players to Florida.

[the-rasta-masta]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

And was drafted 214th overall.

4th last pick of the draft. I just hope we don't live to regret not picking Arvid Costmar, Massimo Rizzo, or Jeremy Michel instead.

[HighLifeMan]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

Wolf padded his stats against bottom feeders. Got the job done but his deployment was curated

While I agree Hutson was very deserving, I don't see how that applies negatively to Wolf. You could make that argument for a ton of starting goaltenders. Vladar typically received the harder starts on the tail end of back to backs but that's a common strategy that coaches use to bank points, and not a reflection on Wolf.

Keep in mind that Hutson received incredibly opportunistic deployment with some very productive NHL talent (Suzuki+Caufield). Only one defensemen in the NHL who played over 1000 minutes received a higher offensive zone start % in the entire NHL this season (Darryn Raddysh). In the playoffs for example Hutson started just three shifts in the defensive zone the entire series.

Regardless - I think the voting played out exactly how it should have. Wolf's dip in play during February/March sealed it for Hutson.

[TheScorpion]

Reading the voting breakdown I actually noticed that a lot of Philly writers were the ones who didn't rank Wolf as highly or left him off. Seemed like a transparent effort to get Michkov a nom.

[Locke]

This is just that Franco-Canadian Jose Theodore nonsense all over again!!

I say we riot!!

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta

4th last pick of the draft. I just hope we don't live to regret not picking Arvid Costmar, Massimo Rizzo, or Jeremy Michel instead.

I already regret missing out on Massimo Rizzo because that name sounds like something you’d see on a shampoo bottle.