A Two-Man Race For The 2020-2021 Calder Trophy
By Brian Fogarty, April 22, 2021
The 2020-2021 NHL season is entering the final weeks, and the race to win the Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie has become a dead heat between two remarkable young forwards, Kirill Kaprizov and Jason Robertson. Each player brings their own set of strenghts and weaknesses, but each has taken a leading role with their teams despite their relative lack of experience, and each is likely equally deserving the award. But, there can be only one Rookie of the Year, so the Hockey Prophets took a long look at each player (and the other rookies) to try to determine a winner. Typically, as a previous Hockey Prophets Calder Trophy article detailed, the trophy almost always goes to the rookie who scored the most points, but after roughly four-fifths of the season's games, Kaprizov and Robertson are practically tied in points (38 and 35, respectively), so it may turn out that scoring is not the prime determinator this season. With that in mind, what will set one apart from the other in order to sway the hockey writers when they vote for the Calder Trophy winner?
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Hockey Foreseen: A Prospect Spotlight
Conor Geekie
By Brian Fogarty, April 9, 2021
The Hockey Prophets are pleased to publish the first of a monthly feature series called Hockey Foreseen: A Prospect Spotlight, in which a deeper look will be taken at a current under-17 prospect making a name for themselves in junior or international hockey.
Conor Geekie, a 6’4, 205-pound center playing for the Winnipeg Ice of the WHL, is the perfect player to lead off this series. The Ice—then based in Kootenay—drafted Geekie second overall in the 2019 WHL Bantam draft, and he entered the league this season as a sixteen-year-old rookie with the size and hockey smarts of a much older player. Through his first 14 games for Winnipeg, Geekie has posted four goals and seven assists, and the team’s second-youngest player is currently sixth overall in team scoring (82% of his points at even strength) and has registered at least one point in 15 of the 20 games he has played. Geekie also leads the squad in plus/minus with a +6 rating. Recent 16-year-old WHL players with similar production include 2019’s 3rd-overall pick Kirby Dach and 2017’s 9th-overall pick Michael Rasmussen.
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