With the calendar about to flip over to August, offseason business for most NHL teams is wrapping up. The best free-agency prizes have been claimed, blockbuster trades have been made and most teams have positioned themselves within the constraints of next year's salary cap.
The next big item on the agenda will be seeing which rookies manage to stick with their NHL clubs next season—and which ones excel enough to earn Calder Trophy consideration as rookie of the year.
According to NHL.com, Calder Trophy candidates must be aged 26 or younger on September 15 of their season of eligibility. Those eligible players must have also played 25 games or fewer in the NHL or any other major professional league, such as the KHL, and have not played six games or more in each of the two previous seasons.
Broadly speaking, the Calder tends to be awarded to the rookie forward with the highest point totals, but there are certainly some exceptions. Last season, Aaron Ekblad captured the award straight out of junior hockey—the first defenseman to win since Tyler Myers back in 2010.
Once in a while, a goaltender gets the nod. The last time that ...
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