Wild's Brock Faber and Marco Rossi both make the NHL's All-Rookie Team.
The NHL announced all their awards from the 2023-24 season before the NHL Draft. Along with the five awards came the All-Rookie team and the first and second All-Star teams.
Minnesota had too rookies make the All-Rookie team. Marco Rossi was one of three forwards to make the team and Brock Faber was one of two defenseman to make it.
Faber, 21, ranked third among rookies in points with eight goals, 39 assists, and 47 points while skating in all 82 contests. He ranked first amongst rookies in both average (24:58) and total (2,047:53) time on ice.
He played nearly 300 minutes more than the next-closest player and the highest single-season figure by a rookie since the statistic began being recorded in 1997-98.
The Minnesota native set single-season franchise records for assists by a rookie, ahead of Calen Addison’s 26 in 2022-23 and points by a rookie defenseman, besting Filip Kuba’s 30 in 2000-01,. Faber also established a team record for the longest point steak by a rookie blueliner with two goals, seven assists, and nine points in six games played.
Rossi, 22, led all rookies in face-off wins and was second among rookies with 21 goals in 82 games. He was one goal behind Connor Bedard for the rookie lead.
He became the second rookie in franchise history to record a 20-goal season and the third to produce a 40-point campaign. Kirill Kaprizov recorded 27 goals and 55 points in his rookie season. Faber is the other rookie to record a 40-point season.
Rossi and Faber are the third set of teammates in the past decade to each make the All-Rookie Team in the same season, joining the Detroit Red Wings’ Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider in 2021-22 as well as the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews in 2016-17.
They are also the third and fourth players in franchise history who have been voted to the All-Rookie Team, joining forward Kirill Kaprizov (2020-21) and defenseman Jonas Brodin (2012-13).
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