The National Hockey League unveiled its final few award winners for the 2024-25 season on Thursday.

Among the honourees was Calgary Flames goaltender Dustin Wolf, who was named to the league’s All-Rookie Team as that group’s goaltender, as selected by voters from the Professional Hockey Writers Association. Per the league’s balloting summary, Wolf was the only rookie goaltender that received any votes (and thus, was voted unanimously to the team).

A seventh-round selection way back in the 2019 NHL Draft, Wolf has consistently been one of the top netminders in his age group but constantly doubted due to his relative lack of size – listed at 6’0″, he’s considered small for a goaltender. Regardless of his stature, he’s been one of the best at stopping the puck in every league he’s played in.

Wolf was the Western Hockey League’s top goaltender in 2019-20 and 2020-21, his final two seasons with the Everett Silvertips. He was the American Hockey League’s top goaltender in 2021-22 with the Stockton Heat and 2022-23 with the Calgary Wranglers, also being named the AHL’s most valuable player in 2022-23. He split the 2023-24 season between the NHL and AHL before coming a full-time NHLer this past season.

Wolf ended up splitting netminding duties with Dan Vladar for half of the season, then became the Flames’ de facto starter in the second half. Overall he played 53 games and posted a record of 29-16-8 with a 2.64 goals against average, .910 save percentage and three shutouts. Statistically, he was among the top NHL goaltenders at even strength this past season.

Wolf was the runner-up in Calder Trophy voting for the league’s top rookie, behind Montreal’s Lane Hutson. He’s the 10th Flames player to be voted to the NHL’s All-Rookie Team since the award was created in 1982-83, and the first Flames rookie netminder to do so. (Mike Vernon, oddly enough, never received much Calder or All-Rookie consideration in his two rookie seasons of 1985-86 or 1986-87. He was the last great Flames rookie netminder.)

The prior Flames members of the All-Rookie team were forward Hakan Loob (1983-84), defender Jamie Macoun (1983-84), defender Gary Suter (1985-86), forward Joe Nieuwendyk (1987-88), forward Sergei Makarov (1989-90), forward Jarome Iginla (1996-97), defender Derek Morris (1997-98), defender Dion Phaneuf (2005-06) and forward Johnny Gaudreau (2014-15). Suter, Nieuwendyk and Makarov all also won the Calder Trophy in their rookie seasons.

In addition to finishing first in All-Rookie Team voting among goaltenders and second in Calder Trophy voting, Wolf received a second-place vote and two third-place votes as goaltender for the All-Star Team, one third-place vote for the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goaltender and one fourth-place vote for the Hart Trophy as the player most valuable to their team league-wide.