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KYLE CALDER
This season: 65 games, 7 goals, 13 assists, minus-11 rating.
Positives: Gone are the days when Calder was considered a potential 30-goal scorer. He's now known as an energy-line winger, a guy who can mix it up and contribute some offense. To that end, the Kings pretty much got what they expected. Calder played 65 games and totaled only 18 penalty minutes.
Negatives: It's quite a stretch to say the Kings got their money's worth. There are a lot of players out there who can score 20 points and play on the energy line who DON'T earn almost $3 million per season. The Kings were hoping for a rebound from last season, when Calder totaled 35 points in 78 games. That was considered a down year, but he went even lower this year.
Looking ahead: Calder is a serviceable winger, but the Kings overpaid for him and they've got him for one more season. Perhaps being a contract year will spark him to put up bigger numbers, but he seems unlikely to ever approach his career high of 26 goals. Calder has a defined role as an energy-line winger, if he can stay healthy.
Contract situation: Signed through 2008-09 (cap number of $2.7 million next season).
About the bloggers
Rich Hammond has covered the Kings, on a full-time or part-time basis, since the 2000-01 season. He was the beat writer for the entire John Torchetti era and has witnessed Bob Miller singing country music in a Nashville honky-tonk bar. A native of Los Angeles, Rich has worked at the Daily News since 1999 and also serves as the paper's deputy sports editor. E-mail Rich at rich.hammond@dailynews.com.
Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews.com.
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DellaNooch on Player evaluation: Calder: He had a strong start and never recovered that form after he came back ...
Eric K on Player evaluation: Calder: he was coming on until the injury... not a great signing, but not one ...
nykingfan on Player evaluation: Calder: I thought he played well at times, especially on the PP when he was in ...
OC Kings Fan on Player evaluation: Calder: Before he broke his finger - he was on fire. I think he came back too ...
Moondoggie on Player evaluation: Calder: Calder played well when he was healthy, some of his games he was a rea ...
Bruce on Player evaluation: Calder: Calder went through a year with 2 injuries that hurt his productivity. ...
A-hole on Player evaluation: Calder: Calder was exactly what the 2nd PP unit needed until he broke his fing ...
KingFan4ever on Player evaluation: Calder: Thanks for these player evals Rich! So far I think your assessments h ...
lakingzfan on Player evaluation: Calder: can you say bad FA signing? ...