Mike Cammalleri is now a Calgary Flame. Here's what I know about him:
The Good - Fast, agile, with a hard and accurate shot. Effective PP player, who can legitimately play the point (unlike Tanguay). Young, with potential to score 30+ goals every year. Already has an 80 point season under his belt.
The Bad - Small, somewhat soft and tends to get scored on at ES. Bad year last season, due in part to injury.
His ES advanced stats from 07/08:
-0/04 QUALCOMP (only Nagy and Armstrong saw softer competition)
1.91 ESP/60 (pretty pedestrian, but actually better than Kopitar)
2.60 GFON/60 (middling)
3.56 GAON/60 (worst on the team)
-14 ES +/- (only Handzus was worse in terms of forwards)
-0.4 CORSI (meh)
Mike was one of the hottest goal-scorers at the start of last season before being injured. he struggled to regain that form upon returning and ended up battling injury and consistency issues all year.
Cammalleri has one more season left on his 3.35M/contract and it was apparent to Kings management that he would be testing free agency at the conclusion of his contract, thus the impetus to move him.
I dont quite know where Cammalleri lands on the Flames depth chart. Considering the pre-ponderance of centers, I would expect him to move to the LW and play with either Langkow/Iginla or Lombardi/? (Moss?) at ES and get some serious PP time otherwise. He won't be killing penalties and he won't be checking tough competition like Tanguay was with Conroy and Nolan last year.
Im still absorbing the Flames moves and draft picks, so further analysis will be forth-coming. For now, welcome to the Flames Mike!
