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From: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Rookie of the year
Message-ID: <4003@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 16:40:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 16:40:34 1985
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Reply-To: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP (Richard Gillespie)
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Summary: 

In article <960@watdcsu.UUCP> haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) writes:
>
>Here's my vote for Chelios, too.  Although here, too, I think we're
>bordering on the limits of eligibility.  Chelios played (I think)
>about eight regular-season games last year, as well as the full
>playoffs, a total of almost 25 games.  He's damn good, but is he a
>rookie?
>
A player is considered a rookie if he has played less than 20 REGULAR season
games the previous year. There are also rules for so-many-total-games in a
number of previous seasons.  Playoff experience doesn't count.  Thus Ken Dryden
was able to be the Rookie of the Year the year *after* he was voted the Most
Valuable Player in the playoffs (grrrrr, Chicago should have won the Cup).
Anyway, it is tough to say exactly what constitutes a rookie these days.  With
international play becoming so much more important, players are coming into
the NHL with lots of experience.  For example, Par Lafontaine and Pat Flatley
were, arguably, the best players on their countrys' Olympic teams (*lots* of
exposure and ice time).  They then joined the Islanders late in the season
(with about 15 games to go) and were major contributors in the playoffs.  But
both are considered rookies this year.

As for who will win this year - Chelios hasn't a chance.  Being MVP of the
All-Star game will lock it up for Mario Lemieux.  So much for my pre-season
prediction of Pat Lafontaine (we Islander fans are die-hards).
-- 

			       Rick Gillespie
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