Quoting: Pens2000
honestly all the pens need out of him is 3rd line production. they don't need him to be crosby out there. and i personally think he's most effective as a center. fluke or not heat least he has produced better than what kapanen is giving (who has less goals then DOM SIMON in their last 9 games)
great all except for the fact that his faceoffs is 47.6, and Carter's is 57% and he's frankly a better C and more productive.
He's not a C in PIT. He isn't good at faceoffs, which means he does piss all to help play defense on the bottom 6 in PIT which frankly is a defensive role.
Nor is he better than Blueger who is a stud and 54.8% on the dot.
So you can go round and round on this. But you are just wrong. He' not a center.
As for comparing him to Kap lets be clear on it. ERod has been in the league a log time this is the only year he's scored more than 10 goals. His 5v5 goals are also lower than Kap's.
So when you got 1 guy who's been pretty consistent on his production and it's been decent but you want to constantly bash him, for a guy who's never really done anything but hey he's had a good 1/2 of a season that one time seems absurd to me.