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The Calder Race: Where Does Nugent-Hopkins Sit?
With 12 games under his belt, Edmonton’s hot-shot center currently leads all rookies in both points and goal-scoring. Does that make him the favourite in the early going to win rookie of they year?...
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The Calder Race: Nugent-Hopkins Turning “Race” Into Rout
Last year's rookie of the year, Jeff Skinner At the end of the first month of the season, I looked at the potential Calder Trophy candidates, with the intention of updating every month to see how...
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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Vs. Gabriel Landeskog For The Calder Trophy As The NHL’s...
It’s been a good year, on the whole, for the players selected early at the NHL’s 2011 Entry Draft, and perhaps it isn’t a surprise to see the first two picks from that draft – the Oilers’ Ryan...
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ESPN Sees Gabriel Landeskog As 2011-12′s Calder Trophy Winner
While the race between Gabriel Landeskog and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for the rookie of the year award remains close, judging by the tone of media coverage it appears that Landeskog will be the one to walk...
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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins named as “finalist” for Calder Trophy
In one sense this announcement is so unsurprising as to barely qualify as “news”. In another, it’s not every day, or even every year, that an Edmonton Oiler so much as gets a mention when the NHL gets...
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Edmonton Oilers’ rookie Nail Yakupov doesn’t make Calder finalist cut
Edmonton Oilers’ winger Nail Yakupov had a blistering finish to his first NHL season, scoring 11 goals in April, but not enough voters noticed because the 19-year-old Russian forward who led all...
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Expect Sidney Crosby to score Hart Trophy come NHL awards time
Ask the NHL rank-and-file to vote on the game’s best player, and I’d say 70 per cent of them would scribble C-R-O-S-B-Y. But Sidney Crosby, the superstar Pittsburgh Penguins captain, has won only one...
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Connor McDavid for NHL rookie of the year? Oilers forward is long-shot
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Connor McDavid is still a long-shot to give the Oilers their first Calder trophy because Chicago’s silky-smooth Artemi Panarin has helped Patrick Kane to 92 points as his...
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Dan Barnes: NHL's Calder Trophy race a confusing mix of apples and oranges
It appears that Chicago Blackhawks forward Artemi Panarin stands between Edmonton Oilers rookie Connor McDavid and another chunk of silver for the trophy room. But it’s not nearly that simple. Sure,...
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Cult of Hockey: Oilers' phenom Connor McDavid first since Alex Ovechkin to...
For the third time in his extraordinary freshman season, Edmonton Oilers sensation Connor McDavid has been named the NHL’s Rookie of the Month. In so doing he becomes the second player in the history...
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Connor McDavid deserves NHL Calder Trophy votes as top rookie
The National Hockey League doesn’t get a vote, but it is making a very strong case for Connor McDavid winning the first Calder Trophy in Edmonton Oilers history. The league just named McDavid Rookie of...
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Cult of Hockey: Calder finalist Connor McDavid still has a shot to be first...
Edmonton Oilers’ superstar Connor McDavid added another honour to his growing list on Monday when he was named by the NHL as a finalist for the Calder Memorial Trophy for Rookie of the Year. McDavid...
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McDavid-Manning feud continues to simmer
The second Connor McDavid lost an edge and went slamming into the end boards at Rexall Place, smashing his collarbone and derailing what would have been a Calder Trophy season, Brandon Manning knew...
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2017-18 Edmonton Oilers likely to feature refreshingly few NHL rookies
With the signings of veteran LW Jussi Jokinen and experienced international defenceman Yohann Auvitu in recent days, the fine-tuning of the Edmonton Oilers roster for 2017-18 is nearly complete. Auvitu...
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