NHL vet joins Condors for camp
By Condors Talk
Who was the gray-beard skating with all the youngsters during practice and an intrasquad scrimmage on Monday?
Non other than 10-year NHL vet Kyle Calder.
The Condors officially signed ECHL vet Andrew Ianiero, who is back for his sixth straight season in Bakersfield and seventh overall, but that wasn’t a surprise as Ianiero said on Saturday he’d be back.
The surprise was Calder, who was signed by the Anaheim Ducks last season and assigned to Bakersfield where he played five games before being called up the the NHL Club for 14 games. He was later assigned to Toronto in the American Hockey League season but asked to come back and play for the Condors in the playoffs where he scored 10 points in 10 games.
A free agent looking for a job in the higher echelons of hockey, Calder is just trying to stay in shape and Condors coach Marty Raymond is accommodating him.
“It doesn’t do him any good to skate by himself,” Raymond said. “He needs to skate at a pace, against other people. He helped us out so we’ll help him out.”
By league rules, Raymond could not offer Calder, who has played 590 games in the NHL a try-out agreement. The only way he could allow Calder to work out with the team was to sign him.
Thus, Calder is officially a Condors.
For now, anyway.
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