NHL Awards Watch: Calder Trophy race officially heating up

The more the Tampa Bay Lightning chase history, as the NHL's top team is on track to challenge the league's single-season points record, the more awards they could collect in June. They have the MVP award nearly locked up, they lead in for the top goaltender award and their coach is right in the mix for the Jack Adams.

But while the Lightning are the talk of the NHL, something else buzz-worthy happened since the last awards watch: The resurgence of the St. Louis Blues and the emergence of goalie Jordan Binnington, who aims to spoil Elias Pettersson's Calder Trophy party.

Here's the NHL Awards Watch for March. Again, this is a prediction of how I expect the voters would consider the current…