NHL: 2026-27 Calder Trophy: how this market works

What you need to know

This market is asking which NHL player will win the Calder Trophy at the end of the 2026-27 season. The Calder Trophy is the award given each year to the best rookie in the NHL, meaning a player in roughly their first full season in the league. A Yes on a specific player means that player wins the award; everyone else loses. Right now the market sees Ivar Stenberg as the slight frontrunner at 35%, with Gavin McKenna close behind at 31%, and Viggo Björck as a distant option at 3%. The market settles on whichever player the NHL officially names as the Calder Trophy winner after the 2026-27 season concludes, which would normally happen in the summer of 2027. The NHL's own announcement is the deciding source. One important edge case: if the season is cancelled or the winner is not declared by June 30, 2027, the market resolves to a catch-all result called 'Other' rather than any named player. Also, if two players somehow tie, the one whose last name comes first alphabetically would win here. None of the provided news headlines relate to this market at all. They cover topics like Tesla earnings, political stories from India, and events in Jordan. There is no relevant hockey news to point to here. The kind of development worth watching would be news about which teams drafted or signed these players, their preseason performance, or any injuries heading into the 2026-27 season. This market is genuinely hard to predict because the 2026-27 season has not started yet, so nobody has played a single meaningful game. Rookie performance is notoriously difficult to forecast: a player projected as a star can struggle to adjust to NHL pace, get injured, or simply have a quieter year than expected. The combined odds for Stenberg and McKenna still leave about 31% split across players not even listed, meaning the market is saying there is a real chance someone else entirely wins the award.

The odds right now

• Ivar Stenberg+21.0 pts (1w)37%
• Gavin McKenna+5.5 pts (1w)31%
• Viggo Björck-0.7 pts (1w)3%
• Carson Carels+0.1 pts (1w)1%
• Keaton Verhoeff-0.7 pts (1w)1%
• Mathis Preston-0.1 pts (1w)0%
• William Hakansson-29.8 pts (1w)0%
• Caleb Malhotra-8.2 pts (1w)0%
• Alexander Command-9.7 pts (1w)0%
• Adam Novotný-4.8 pts (1w)0%
• Tommy Bleyl-0.3 pts (1w)0%
• Chase Reid-0.1 pts (1w)0%

Price history

How this resolves

This market will resolve to the player who wins the Calder Memorial Trophy for the 2026-27 NHL season. In the event of a tie, this market will resolve according to the official winner as determined by NHL rules. Read the full resolution rules on the live market page.

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