The Ottawa Senators believe Binghamton is the perfect place for Curtis Lazar.

Senators general manager Pierre Dorion says there is no plan to call up the team's 2013 first-round pick, telling Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen "the best thing for Curtis is to go down there and play and play as well as he can play."

The Senators assigned Lazar to their AHL affiliate in Binghamton after he missed training camp with mono, providing him an opportunity to get his game up to speed. It's also a new experience for the 21-year-old who had not played in the AHL prior to this season. He has tallied two points in five games.

"(He can) play in all situations and I think it's the right thing to do. Let him get confidence and when the time comes we'll call him back up but there's no timetable to call up Curtis," Dorion added. "(It's) for him to work on his skills. We didn't draft Curtis just to be a third- or fourth-line guy, we drafted Curtis to be an impact player for us."

Lazar has 143 NHL games to his credit, but has scored just 35 points. That's a far cry from his last year in junior in which he scored 76 points in 58 games with the WHL's Edmonton Oil Kings.

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