Several Canadiens players are among the favorites for individual honors

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Several Canadiens players are among the favorites for individual honors
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There's just one game left in the Canadiens' regular season, and it won't be long before fans start voting for the NHL's individual awards.

While the Habs had to settle for just Lane Hutson's Calder Trophy last season, this year could be very different.

Dom Luszczyszyn of The Athletic has been analyzing advanced statistics for quite some time now to rank the top contenders for each individual NHL award. Let's just say Montreal is making waves in his rankings.

As you can see in the post above, Lane Hutson leads the race for the Norris Trophy, according to Luszczyszyn's scoring system.

The Norris isn't out of reach for Hutson, who has a good chance of earning a nomination, but Zach Werenski is really the one to watch as the favorite this season.

If you follow this scoring system—which favors Hutson—you'll be surprised to see his ranking for the Hart Trophy. The Habs defenseman sits fourth in the standings, trailing only Nikita Kucherov, Connor McDavid, and Nathan MacKinnon.

That's high up in the rankings.

As for Nick Suzuki, he's not in the top 10 for the Hart Trophy, but he's unsurprisingly the favorite for the Selke Trophy, awarded to the best defensive forward.

We know the Selke is for defense, but the candidates also benefit from racking up a lot of points, and let's just say those 100 points help him a lot.

If you really want to jump out of your seat, wait until you see the Vézina Trophy rankings. Jakub Dobes is ranked seventh! His performances at the end of the season were incredible, but this high? That's really intense.

Now let's move on to the Calder Trophy standings. For this one, we'll focus more on the votes from the NHL.com writers.

We don't get a precise ranking based on the votes, but rather the list (in alphabetical order) of the four favorites for the Calder.

While Matthew Schaefer is the favorite to win, it's still interesting to see that the Canadiens have two of their players among the top four favorites in Ivan Demidov and Jakub Dobes.

One might also think that Oliver Kapanen isn't far behind them, just a few spots down the list.

As for Luszczyszyn, his algorithm places Dobes in the second tier, while Demidov ranks fifth.

We'll wrap things up with the race for the Maurice Richard Trophy. Before Monday night's games, Cole Caufield sits in second place with 51 goals, just one behind Nathan MacKinnon.

Unfortunately for Caufield, the Avalanche have three games left in the season compared to just one for the Canadiens. The race isn't over yet, though!


In a nutshell

– That's the case for a lot of people!

– It's funny to announce when players are resting.

– Victory for the Armada.

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