Pittsburgh signed that contract, now they're stuck with it.

LA doesn't need a 3rd line center THAT bad.

PLZ

Jeff Carter is doing terribly as Pittsburgh's #3C. Pens pundits and fans are calling for all three members of that line to be sent to the moon. What makes you think Carter would play any better for us?

As for "much needed veteran presence," what makes you think that the leadership provided by Kopitar, Danault, Arvidsson, Doughty, Edler and Quick is insufficient?

Needed veteran 3rd line center. Carter is better than Lizotte, and that allows him to go back to the 4th line, which puts Kupari to either RW or AHL.

Fiala - Carter - Vilardi > Iafallo - Lizotte - Vilardi
Iafallo - Lizotte - Kaliyev > JAD - Kupari - Kaliyev

I'd rather have 6 guys producing than 5 of those guys producing and one black hole, which is what Carter has become this year. And part of the reason why your two lines look better is that you've benched Kevin Fiala in the "now" lineup.

Carter has 21 points in 56 games. Lizotte has 28 points (33% more than Carter) in 61 games (10% more than Carter) while averaging 1 minute and 45 seconds less ice time per game than Carter, so the expectancy is Fiala - Carter - Vilardi << Fiala - Lizotte - Vilardi.

I've tried to be kind to a fellow Los Angeles adherent, but this is an AWFUL, AWFUL idea. Give it up.