Kunitz to rejoin Getzlaf-Perry on Ducks’ top line

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What do Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry, Chris Kunitz and Evan Lysacek have in common?

Well, besides being pretty good ice skaters, they also have exactly zero goals for the Anaheim Ducks this season.

Lysacek, of course, has a good excuse. He’s an Olympic figure skater and not an NHL player who’s getting paid millions of dollars to put the puck into the back of the net.

Getzlaf, Perry and Kunitz were the team’s leading point producers last season while playing on the top scoring line. With Kunitz moving to second-line duty at the start of this season, the trio has totaled just one assist between them, a key reason for the Ducks’ 0-4 start.

Ducks Coach Randy Carlyle, tired of watching his prized possessions take shift after shift without producing a goal, said after practice Thursday that he plans to move Kunitz back to the Getzlaf-Perry line beginning Friday night against visiting San Jose (4-0).

‘Players don’t like moving around, bouncing around,’’ Carlyle said. ‘They say they like to get to know their linemates. Well, we’ll give them an opportunity.’’

Look for more on this matter, as well as some other notes from practice, later today on latimes.com.

-- Dan Arritt