NHL.com: Dryden's award-winning career somewhat out of sequence

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[q]In NHL annuals[sic], there seems to be an anomaly. There is one player who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Stanley Cup Playoffs' top performer and then won the Calder Trophy as the League's top rookie the following season.

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Cam Ward was trying to do it after winning the Conn Smythe last spring but he isn't even close for the Calder.

The Bruins had Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Johnny Bucyk, Ken Hodge, Wayne Cashman and Fred Stanfield. They were a scoring machine.

Reid Cashman's bio lists his parents as Lori and Tom Cashman. Anyone know if there's an actual connection, or is it simply coincidence?

Just a coincidence.

That article twice mentions something about Dryden being McNeil's "surprise choice" to start in goal. One prescient Boston sportswriter did a column a day or two before that 1971 playoff series with the Bruins titled something like: "Dryden Montreal's Ace in the Hole?" Wish I'd thought to clip it at the time--along with the dozens of others written during that series.

If you weren't around at the time of that series, you really can't appreciate just how strong those Bruins were and how much of an upset that series was.

Al DeFlorio
That article twice mentions something about Dryden being McNeil's "surprise choice" to start in goal. One prescient Boston sportswriter did a column a day or two before that 1971 playoff series with the Bruins titled something like: "Dryden Montreal's Ace in the Hole?" Wish I'd thought to clip it at the time--along with the dozens of others written during that series.

If you weren't around at the time of that series, you really can't appreciate just how strong those Bruins were and how much of an upset that series was.

Of course, that prescient Boston sportwriter may have seen Dryden's Cornell games in the Boston area. Offering he/she extra insight into Dryden's abilities. He did play some great games in Boston!!