2011-12 Most Valuable Rookies

In anticipation of the NHL Awards being given out tonight, and in particular the Calder Trophy for the best rookie of the 2011-12 campaign. Here is our analysis on who contributed to most value this past year of the three finalists up for the award.

		Team	GP	Goals	Assists	Points	True Value ($M)	Cap Hit ($M)	Difference ($M)
1.	Gabriel Landeskog	COL	82	22	30	52	3.85	3.58	0.28
2.	Adam Henrique	NJD	74	16	35	51	3.69	0.81	2.89
3.	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins	EDM	62	18	34	52	3.60	3.78	-0.17

Clearly there was not much different in the True Value of the finalists, but if RNH played the entire without injury he likely would have easily won the award.  However based on our analysis, Gabriel Landeskog was the most valuable rookie in 2011-12 especially when seeing that he had a +20 plus/minus.   We shall see how the voting turned out later tonight.