The impact several rookies are making on the NHL is one of the major storylines of the 2024-25 season. Each week, NHL.com will examine topics related to this season's class in the Rookie Watch. This week, to mark the midway point of the season, NHL.com presents the Rookie All-Star Team:

Clark Bishop made it a three-goal game 11 minutes, 53 seconds into the third period. Then the Wild (28-17-4) tried to make a push. Freddy Gaudreau scored a power-play goal 2 minutes, 22 seconds later to cut it back to two. While Kuzmenko scored his second of the night just 14 seconds later for the apparent dagger, it wasn't quite over.

Everyone is talking about Calgary Flames goalie Dustin Wolf being in the Calder conversation, but he deserves some Hart discussion as well.

The visitors were out-shot 39-22 on the night, but Wolf stood on his head and didn't lose his shutout bid until Adam Lowry tipped home a point shot early in the third period. Wolf has given up more than three goals only once in his last eight outings, going 6-2-0 over that stretch with a dazzling 1.88 GAA and .934 save percentage.

The Winnipeg Jets lead the NHL power rankings for the first time since November, but it's tight at the top. Plus, the blockbuster Rantanen trade has another big winner.

Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each had a hat trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.

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The Flames' next game is an easier matchup at home Thursday versus the Ducks.

Wolf, whose legal name is Justin Heath Smith, has been in custody since his June arrest. Update 10/25/24 : Austin Wolf’s first hearing in his federal criminal case has been delayed once again.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each had a hat trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. Thompson and Peterka became the first pair to score a hat trick in the same game for the Sabres since 2008.

We got a blockbuster trade that shook up the NHL world. Without further ado, let’s get into the week sixteen rankings.

After a busy seven days in the National Hockey League, the movement in ClutchPoints' NHL Power Rankings is significant in Week 17.