Ducks sign Calder, assign him to Bakersfield.
The Ducks signed forward Kyle Calder to a one-year, two-way contract and assigned him to ECHL Bakersfield. Calder will earn $500,000 in the NHL and $105,000 in the minors.
"He's a veteran guy that came in and didn't do anything flashy, but he knows his way around the rink," Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle said of Calder. "He's a guy with the shortage of forwards and some positions and whatnot, he's on a reserve list that can be made available to us."
Carlyle said that the players, via the NHLPA Web site, actually found out before he did that Calder had signed. More than sending a message to the team's forwards in the midst of a four-game losing streak, the coach said that signing Calder gives him depth.
"You can read into it whatever you want," Carlyle said. "The more players you have in those positions, the more options you have as management and a coaching staff."
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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