Calder staying put

After practice today, Terry Murray said that Kyle Calder will stay on the Kings’ top line, alongside Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown. Calder played the previous two games in that role and had one assist and a plus-1 rating. It might be easy to forget that Calder once scored 26 goals in a season (2005-06 with Chicago) but Murray seems to be pleased with what he’s seeing so far. Here’s what Murray said about Calder’s play…

MURRAY: “I think the line has played well. They’re attacking, they want to make good plays, they want to make things happen in the offensive zone through puck possession, and I really think Calder has added to that mentality that Brownie and Kopi bring to the game, with holding on to it deep in the offensive zone, cycling it and making little hand-off plays and getting to the net. That’s his game, that’s his identity in the league. His skating, he has good jump. He’s coming up with a lot of loose pucks in board play and he races to pucks in the offensive zone and he’s getting himself to the net. So that is a good thing for that line and I’m going to continue to go with them tomorrow night.”

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