The Athletic’s Sean McIndoe, a.k.a. “Down Goes Brown,” offers “Oddly specific predictions for every NHL team” this morning, and here’s his best guess as to what will happen to Red Wings goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic:
Detroit Red Wings: One of the weirdest minor subplots of the season will be Alex Nedeljkovic’s quest to win rookie-of-the-year honors one year after he was a finalist for rookie-of-the-year honors. Yeah, it turns out that his 23 games last season and previous career totals fall just under the Calder cutoff, so despite this being the fifth season in which he’ll appear in the NHL, he’s still eligible. Can he pull off the seemingly impossible feat of being a Calder finalist two years in a row? No, because he finishes fourth.
Continued; it’d be great if Nedeljkovic was in Calder Trophy discussion again this upcoming season, but that trophy is probably Cole Caufield’s to lose.
