Stars winger wins AHL Rookie of the Year

Dallas Stars winger Logan Stankoven has received the 2024 Red Garrett Memorial Award because the AHL’s Rookie of the Year. This comes after Stankoven posted 24 objectives and 57 factors in his first 47 minor-league video games. His 1.21 points-per-game is the best scoring tempo from an AHL rookie since Jack Quinn posted 61 factors in 45 video games within the 2021-22 season. Quinn additionally received the league’s Rookie of the Yr award that 12 months. The final AHL rookie to return near Quinn and Stankoven’s scoring tempo was Jake Guentzel all the way in which again within the 2016-17 season.

Whereas it’s normally arduous to discover a correlation between most awards and NHL success, the AHL Rookie of the Yr sometimes manages a advantageous NHL profession — one thing made evident by previous winners Quinn, Joshua Norris, and the 2015 tie between Mikko Rantanen and Frank Vatrano. Stankoven appears on a quick observe to hitch his friends, gaining a constant position in Dallas’ top-six only a few video games into his NHL profession. He completed the common season with 14 factors in 24 NHL video games. He’s additionally recorded one level in his first two Stanley Cup Playoff appearances, wanting loads adjusted to the quick tempo of the NHL postseason.

Dallas is undoubtedly giddy over simply how nicely Stankoven’s first skilled season has gone. The previous Kamloops Blazers captain was very extremely acclaimed throughout his four-year WHL profession, posting 260 factors in 179 video games and turning into the highest-scoring Blazer since 2013. However played-out considerations about his 5-foot-8 body and skill to interact bodily dropped Stankoven to the second spherical of the 2021 NHL Draft, the place Dallas rapidly took benefit of the remainder of the league’s oversight. Two years later, he’s now being awarded for a blinding begin to his professional profession and taking part in significant minutes within the postseason. Stankoven was Dallas’ second choose of the 2021 Draft, following the workforce’s choice of Wyatt Johnston at twenty third general.

Stankoven was one regular-season sport shy of solidifying this 12 months as his NHL rookie season. Which means he’ll stay eligible for the Calder Trophy subsequent season, when he’s certain to have a way more clear-cut position in Dallas’ electrical offense. He may be extra formally regrouped with heart prospect Mavrik Borque, who led the AHL in scoring this season and shaped a dynamic duo with Stankoven earlier within the 12 months.