Despite Karlsson running away with the scoring title for defensemen last season with an impressive 101 points, he did more of his scoring in the first half and had 50 points in 44 games from January 1st onwards. Quinn Hughes had 46 points in 46 games after Jan 1st.
This season, Hughes has 45 points in 36 games prior to the new year, while Karlsson only has 23 points in 35 games.
Cale Makar missed a chunk of games in February and a few more here and there, and ended up only playing 57 games in 2023. This puts Makar’s P/G quite a bit higher than Hughes (1.28 vs 1.11), who played exactly 82 games in the calendar year.
Vince Dunn also had an impressive calendar year, but it’s worth noting he played 84 games.
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You post this in r/hockey as well?
If Hughes doesn’t win this year then everyone better put on their aluminum hats
Proof Hughes is better than Makar. Durability matters and fragile players aren’t good
Being healthy is seriously overlooked. Everyone raves about Makar but he always misses 25% of the year from injury.
Love seeing this stuff. I loved hughes contract when signed and love it even more. Easily has the be the best contract in the league, either his, draisaitl, Robertson, jHughes, stutzle, and or huberdeau 🤣