Calder Race Heating Up
Lowetide
December 03 2010 07:36AM
After three big road games, the Oilers rookies are moving up the scoring race. Although leading the league in total rookie points is not a guarantee of winning the ROY, it certainly helps. Being famous and scoring ridiculous goals that make Sportsentre's Plays of the Day/Week/Month also help. The Oilers have two strong candidates.
Winning the Calder would be historic for Hall or Eberle. For all the phenomenal talent that Oiler fans have watched over the years, none won the Calder (which is as ridiculous as it sounds). Maybe the hockey Gods owe us one, but it looks to me as though one of these two kids could win it outright:
- Jeff Skinner (CAR) 24gp, 7-12-19 -4
- Jordan Eberle (EDM) 25gp, 5-13-18 -1
- Logan Couture (SJS 24gp, 10-5-15 +2
- Derek Stepan 27gp, 6-9-15 -1
- Taylor Hall 25gp, 8-6-14 -2
There are other candidates (Shattenkirk, Subban and Carlson among the D and goalie Bobrovsky is dynamite). Having said all that, it looks like the Oilers are going to have a really good shot at winning this thing. The best chance since maybe Jason Arnott over a decade ago.
I don't like to spend a lot of time on newer stats at ON, but this is an important item. RelCorsi measures total shots for and against while specific players are on the ice. This measurement goes back decades, innovative coaches were using it in the 1970's. Here are the relCorsi's for the 5 players above. I should mention that Corsi is a tool best used to compare players on the same team, but it does show a strong trend:
- Hall (EDM) +14.8
- Eberle (EDM) +10.4
- Logan Couture (SJS) +9.2
- Derek Stepan (NYR) +3.6
- Jeff Skinner (CAR) +0.9
Hall and Eberle are playing against tough competition and the puck is going the right way. Music! I'm hopeful one of these young men wins some hardware, it would be a solid indicator for the future. But in reality we already have it.
Let the good times roll.
@zed
as soon as you said roast chicken #1 you lost me...really chicken? i mean really?
the donair meat sounds good tho....ummmmy!
@mayorpoop
Ok then... Use donair meat in place of chicken.
Donair meat is still a winner in my mind.
thank you!
and valid point about the picks. we seem to be so concerned with the pick placement of 2010....we are forgetting about the "potential" of the team of 2010.
I wonder who is the donair meat of the 2011 entry draft? Who's the squishy stuff with the green sauce?
I'm sure one day the writers on this blog can do a comparison for us.
*munches on fruit roll up*
@Dyckster
Agreed!!! Although Horcs has a rediculous contract, will obviously won't have to come close to those numbers if we choose to resign him. Kinda like Conroy on calgary.
Eberle and Hall are amazing but if you watch any footage from the bench, Horcs is always talking to them so you have to conclude that Horcs is a positive to their developement!!
my bad 2011 draft....its that banana(is this the hardest word in the world to spe1l or what jeez) hammock change clothes damn you!
stupid jpegs!
@Eberle14
Agreed on Horc, always vocal on the bench - and when coming back defensively he will point with his stick to Ebs and Hall where to go defensively.
Horc as a player is worth 4-4.5 mil/year in my eyes. The extra 1-1.5 for being a trainer on the ice, steady room presence, and captain is fine by me. Hell we pay $700k to Strudwick to be just that type of thing - and he cant even play hockey anymore.
Alexander Mikhaylovich Ovechkin (Russian: Александр Михайлович Овечкин; pronounced [ˈɐlʲɪkˌsɑndr ɐˈvʲetʃkɪn];
picked 1st overall & Calder Winner
20cent...1st overall & calder weiner
Yep, only Five plus months til the playoffs. Can't get behind on the Calder picks.
@Oilcruzer
I've already got a pool on for Calder winners for the '11-'12 season.
Front runners are Jonathan Bernier, Neat-o Niederreiter, and whoever we're gushing over after successful completion of this year's ELPH!
Souray to MTL now that Markov is a scratch for the whole year? I can see it.
No it won't happen. Period.
Nah, but we could probably swing a deal for two first rounders with Burkie...or maybe Sutter... They both like to spend their cap on D.
Maybe if he didn't have to clear recallable waivers first.
Maybe this isn't such a bold prediction since he is tied for the lead right now but....Hall will lead the Oil in goals at the end of the season.
Book it.
With 25.
Dan Cleary is on pace for 45.
Perspective is eveything.
That's what he's always been regarded as is a playmaker ~ says so on every year of NHL gaming~
Well, if you ignore common sense and the NHL CBA, you might be on to something
FYI - Tyler Innes (Buffalo) has same pts as Taylor Hall and is a plus 4... how did he not make the top 5?
re-entry and a trade can't happen?
why wouldnt the team just grab him on re-entry at half price?
or, you think souray at 2+mil makes it through 29 other teams to clear re-entry?
yes, in theory, it could happen. anything "could happen". brownlee "could" win a wet t-shirt contest at diamonds tonight. Is it likely? nope. it is possible? yup
Must be feeling a little heat now that your call on Hall is looking like absolute non-sense.
It's because I do believe that he just scored two points last night after the article was written.
Yeah, Ennis is a helluva player but he was outside the top 5 when I wrote the post. He'll be a strong ROY candidate though.
@cableguy - 2nd Tier Fan
i could not agree more. that made me laugh in a good way.