“There will never ever be enough words in the world to describe how incredibly lucky I was to have you as my dad,” Calder’s daughter, Madison, wrote on Instagram. “Never in a million years would I have thought this day would come. There will forever be a void in my heart, but forever a spot just for you. \u2026The lessons you taught me, the strength you showed me, and the person you pushed me to become every single day, I carry all of it with me.<\/p>\n
“Thank you for being my biggest fan through every stage of my life. Thank you for loving me unconditionally. I would give anything for one more conversation, one more hug, one more ‘I love you,’ or to hear your voice one more time.<\/p>\n
“I love you more than anything in the world to the moon and back infinitely. Save me a spot on the ice, Dad.”<\/p>\n
Calder broke into hockey with Regina of the Western Hockey League for the 1995-96 season and was selected by the Blackhawks in the fifth round (No. 130) of the 1997 NHL Draft. He played 13:30 in his\u00a0NHL debut, a 5-5 tie against the Ducks at United Center in Chicago on Oct. 21, 1999, and became a full-time\u00a0NHL player in 2001-02.<\/p>\n
His best season was 2005-06, when Calder set NHL career highs in goals (26) and points (59) in 79 games, the second time he had at least 50 points in the League (53 in 2001-02). He was traded to the Flyers by the Blackhawks for\u00a0Michal Handzus<\/a> on Aug. 4, 2006, and to the Red Wings in a three-team deal involving Philadelphia and Chicago on Feb. 26, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“There will never ever be enough words in the world to describe how incredibly lucky I was to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-707743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}