Minnesota Wild defenseman Brock Faber finished second in the Calder Trophy award voting, given to the league’s best rookie as part of the NHL awards show on Thursday night. Faber, 21, finished second to Chicago’s Connor Bedard.
Bedard finished with 1,808 points in the voting on the backing of 152 first-place votes. Faber earned 42 first-place votes, 146 second-place votes along with six other down ballot votes to tally 1,464 total points in the voting. New Jersey defenseman Luke Hughes had 686 votes.
Faber, the former University of Minnesota star from Maple Grove, Minn., had eight goals and 39 assists while playing all 82 games last season for the Wild. His 24:58 average time on ice led all rookies. He was also first among rookies in blocked shots (150), tied for first in assists and was tied for second in points (47). Bedard, the No. 1 overall pick in last year’s draft, had 22 goals and 39 assists in 68 games.
Former Gopher Logan Cooley, playing for the Arizona Coyotes, was fifth in the voting. Wild forward Marco Rossi was sixth.
Rossi, 22, joined Faber on the NHL all-rookie team. The all-rookie team was comprised of Bedard, Cooley, Rossi at forward; Faber and Hughes at defense and Carolina goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov on the rookie team.
Rossi had 21 goals and 19 assists while playing all 82 games. Faber and Rossi join Kirill Kaprizov and Jonas Brodin as the only players in Wild history to be named to the all-rookie team.
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