Sentences with phrase «year as a rookie»

Anaheim Ducks goalie Frederik Anderson burst onto the scene last year as a rookie and posted a stunning 20 -5-0 record with a.923 save percentage and 2.29 goals - against average.

Anaheim Ducks goalie Frederik Anderson burst onto the scene last year as a rookie and posted a stunning 20 -5-0 record with a...

That said, it's worth noting that Earl Campbell was named Offensive Player of the Year as a rookie, while Lawrence Taylor won the Defensive Player of the Year Award during his first year.

In 73 games last year as a rookie, he scored 36 goals.

In this edition of the EdCast, Danza speaks about his year as a rookie teacher at Northeast High and about his new book, I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had.

Not exact matches

The Warriors are currently the favorite to win the NBA title, and given their youth — from the players to Kerr as a rookie head coach — they could conceivably get better in the coming years.

Bryce Neilson Named Rookie of the Year at Trucking's «Super Bowl of Safety» Orlando, Florida — Today, American Trucking Associations announced Roland Bolduc as the Bendix Grand Champion of the 2017 National Truck Driving Championships.

ATA also recognized Bryce Neilson as the 2017 Rookie of the Year.

«Then you know how much you can invest, how risky you can be,» Broyles said, as he enters the last year of his rookie contract with no guarantee he'll make the Lions» roster.

My second cousin (the son of my first cousin) has become a key player his rookie year as a New Orleans Saint and teams like the Broncos are kicking themselves for not signing him.

The truly interesting thing about the new era is that teams can structure their payrolls any way they want, as long as they pay every player at least the league minimum ($ 100,000 for rookies this season, $ 125,000 for players with a year's service, $ 150,000 for two or more years) and stay under the cap.

Peppers, the No. 25 pick in this year's NFL Draft, is expected to see time at defensive back and special teams as a rookie.

He's still just 25 years old, born in the same year as Travis Shaw and Jerad Eickhoff, still young enough to be a rookie, if not a prospect.

Make the team better just in case J.P. Crawford is suddenly an NL Rookie of the Year and MVP candidate, or Maikel Franco hits 50 home runs, or something just as pleasantly random, while also preparing for the likelihood that they'll be sellers again at the deadline.

With the Jaguars having two young defensive ends in 2015 first - round pick Dante Fowler and their third - round pick from last year, Yannick Ngakoue, who burst on the scene as a rookie with eight sacks, it didn't appear that there was a big need for a defensive end.

Rookie WR's are very hit or miss as far as contributing in the 1st year, so are we really going to cut him if we draft a WR?

Francois was the ACC Rookie of the Year in 2016, but James Blackman got better with each passing week after he was thrust into action as a true freshman following the injury to Francois.

Rookie Tyler Lockett has emerged as a viable deep threat and has five touchdowns on the year.

Outspoken as always, the American League Manager of the Year is extraordinarily candid about the team he rescued from the bone pile and made respectable in his rookie season with the Washington Senators.

As of last week, these two teams featured the top three Offensive Rookie of the Year candidates according to Bovada.

16 Brian Hailed by many as the next Jeff Gordon, the 20 - year - old VICKERS Vickers should win rookie of the year honors.

The Brit won this year's European F3 title as a rookie with races to spare and tested with McLaren at the mid-season test in Hungary, all at the age of 17.

After finishing fifth in points as a rookie in» 02, Johnson, 28, took second last year.

They along with the Team Kollada and Team Zisook made the 2015 Playoffs memorable as the year the «Rookie Teams got to the Final4.»

This year Bunning and rookie congressman Tom McMillen, the Maryland Democrat who played 11 years in the NBA, (page 70) joined representatives Jack Kemp (Buffalo Bills) and Mo Udall (the old ABL Denver Nuggets) and Senator Bill Bradley (New York Knicks) in the Jock Caucus, as Udall has come to call the collective of five former pro athletes now serving in Congress.

Last year as most on this board were warning that we were wasting «the John Wall years», doyou think John was OK with 19 year old rookie who was still in college as we came within 1 quarter of getting to the ECF?

The additions of Myles Jack and Jalen Ramsey in the draft and Dante Fowler Jr coming back from a knee injury that erased his rookie year, the Jags defense should be pretty formidable as well.

There are plenty of reasons why Kansas City is in the playoffs for the first time in four seasons: the maturation of second - year coach Todd Haley, who was the offensive coordinator for Arizona when it reached the Super Bowl; the addition of respected coordinators Romeo Crennel (defense) and Charlie Weis (offense), who won Super Bowls as assistants with New England; the NFL's best running game; a solid defense; and extensive contributions by a deep rookie class.

Expected to be one of the top four picks in this Saturday's and Sunday's NFL draft, Ogden, who starred at left tackle for UCLA, is already being talked up as the league's next outstanding offensive lineman, a player with even more potential than last year's rookie wonder, the Jacksonville Jaguars» Tony Boselli, who went second in the draft.

After wasting its 1997 lottery pick on point guard Antonio Daniels — who was traded to the San Antonio Spurs on this year's draft day for forward Carl Herrera and rookie guard Felipe Lopez — the Grizzlies sought to redeem themselves last June when they used the second selection to get Arizona's Mike Bibby, a sharpshooting playmaker who handles the ball as if it were attached to his palm with a string.

But No. 40 for a guy that might be banished to the bench this year and wasn't that great in the regular season as a rookie is a bit aggressive.

Michael Carter - Williams continues to cement himself as the NBA's Rookie of the Year with a 33 - point, six - rebound, five - assist performance.

I think if you told an average fan that Tyus and Bjelly were in our top five player they'd look at you the same way as someone would have looked at you if you told them at the end of their respective rookie years that Kevin Love was better than OJ Mayo.

For a player who's been through a series of adverse circumstances such as being shot as a rookie to being booed in his own building relentlessly, a Sixth Man of the Year Award would mean a great deal.

They can even extend Taylor two more years as well giving the rookie 3 years to groom.

Thus he is usually «Billy» to his coach, while another first - year player, forward Chris Gatling, late of Old Dominion, is more likely to be addressed as «Rook» by Nelson, whose skepticism of rookies» ability to contribute is legendary.

A year ago as an Xfinity (formerly Nationwide) Series rookie, Elliott won in just his sixth start.

Torres so impressed Houston's brass that he earned a one - year contract for the rookie minimum of $ 332,000 — a substantial raise over his $ 100 - a-month salary as a first - year pro in Venezuela.

Last year, despite playing with Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne as his quarterbacks, Blackmon caught 64 passes for 865 yards, both tops among rookies.

Mathis, a 21 - year - old who played from South Carolina, had five goals and 10 assists as a Galaxy rookie this year.

Jones started on the pole and led a race - high 260 laps, but Kyle Busch was able to pass Jones for the lead with 56 laps remaining when the 21 - year - old rookie bobbled as he maneuvered through slower traffic.

Newton seems to be the victim of his own success as a rookie, with expectations far higher this year.

Additionally, it makes no sense to say «the sixers are artificially bad because embiid didn't play his rookie year» as if it was a fluke.

There are NO other teams in the league that have accomplished anything close to what the Sixers did this year who had their best players be a rookie and a 2nd year player, some of the teams that Philly is most often compared to in regards to young talent are Minnesota (they won less games than Philly, Wiggins sucks, and they were buoyed by Jimmy Butler as a veteran star) and the Lakers (most people don't view anybody on the Lakers on the same level as Embiid or Simmons and they only won 35 games this year).

Whitehair was an impact player his rookie year as well.

After finishing his rookie season with a 76.6 passer rating, a jump was expected in his second year, but a 102.4 rating through three games certainly qualifies as overachieving.

As such, I'll be keeping close tabs on Rookie of the Year.

Potvin, a 21 - year - old rookie from Lemieux's native Quebec, could hardly contain himself afterward, as he jammed a pinch of snuff between his cheek and gum.

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that Jones has top - 15 talent in this year's draft, but as far as I'm concerned he showed too much rookie free agent effort on tape at times.

In 1966 Paul Levine was a sophomore sportswriter on the Penn State newspaper, The Daily Collegian, when Paterno was in his rookie year as the Lions» coach.