Chicago Blackhawks: Dominik Kubalik for rookie of the year?on March 12, 2020 at 1:00 pm

The answer is probably no. Cale Makar of the Colorado Avalanche and Quinn Hughes of the Vancouver Canuks have pretty much made it a two-horse race. Obviously, anything can happen but it seems that the Calder Trophy is going to go to one of them. There is a shot that Kubalik gets a trip to Vegas as the third nominee, however. He is likely in a race with Adam Fox of the New York Rangers, MacKenzie Blackwood of the New Jersey Devils, Victor Olofsson of the Buffalo Sabres, and Elvis Merzlikins of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Kubalik scoring his 30th goal was a great accomplishment. Everyone thought that he had it a few games ago but it was credited to another player. Now, he officially joins Steve Larmer, Darryl Sutter, and Artemi Panarin as the only other Blackhawks to reach that 30 goal mark. It is a shame that the team likely isn’t taking advantage of his great season but maybe they can in future seasons. Either way, this was a fun win over the San Jose Sharks in front of the home crowd.