Calder: if Lane Hutson won, the way he reacted surprised the NHL
By next Thursday, we’ll know whether Lane Hutson has won the Calder Trophy, awarded to the NHL’s top rookie. Remember that this year, the league is announcing the recipients of individual honors in a different way: it is publishing videos in which the trophies are presented to the players.
This morning, Sean Monahan was presented with the Bill Masterton Trophy by Johnny Gaudreau’s widow.
And of course, the video of the day was quite touching. Monahan was moved and couldn’t hold back a few tears, and the people who watched it were moved in turn. For the league, which wanted a good reaction, it was a winning bet.
But on today’s episode of the 32 Thoughts Podcast, Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas chatted to Steve Mayer, the NHL’s head of content, and Friedman asked Mayer which reaction was the best in the recorded videos… and his answer was interesting:
The Masterton reaction is really good. The reaction to the Calder was different from what we expected, and it was really good. – Steve Mayer
All this is interesting in that Lane Hutson is the favorite to win the trophy. The question is, did he have the reaction? And if so, what did it look like?
It also means that if Hutson won the Calder, he knows about it by now.
Mayer notes that both the Calder and Masterton reactions were full of emotion, and it will be interesting to see what the Calder winner’s will be like.
Because this morning’s was quite something.
The good news is that we’re now less than a week away from finding out whether Hutson will become the first Habs player since Ken Dryden to win the Calder Trophy.
And, by the same token, whether he’s the one who had the reaction that surprised the NHL.
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