The Los Angeles Kings shifted Jeff Carter’s lead to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a 2022 conditional pick and a 2023 fourth, as the teams announced Sunday night.
Los Angeles will retain 50% of Carter’s salary, which extends over the 2021-22 season and exceeds $ 5,272 million.
Two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Kings, in 2012 and 2014, Carter has tied for 10th place in the franchise list in all-time goals and ranks first in overtime goals.
He has spent the last nine more years of his 16-year NHL career in Los Angeles. He also played with the Columbus Blue Jackets and Philadelphia Flyers, who ranked him eleventh overall in 2003, when current Penguins general manager Ron Hextall was the Flyers players’ personnel director. Hextall also assisted GM with the Kings for seven seasons, including the 2012 Stanley Cup-winning season.
Carter, 36, has scored eight goals, 11 assists and 19 points in 40 games this season. His departure leaves only four members of the two teams in the Stanley Cup of Kings with the franchise: captain Anze Kopitar, striker Dustin Brown, defender Drew Doughty and goalkeeper Jonathan Quick.
The Kings, who had lost seven of nine games before Saturday’s win over the San Jose Sharks, are currently six points from a playoff spot with 16 games remaining.
The Penguins, 27-13-2, are third in the Eastern Division, but just two points behind the division’s leaders, the Washington Capitals and the New York Islanders.
The information from The Associated Press was used in this report.