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This does not surprise me, because there has always been a fair amount of debate when it comes to Dustin Penner.There shouldn-t be, but there always has been.At the time that then-Oilers General Manager Kevin Lowe signed Penner to the RFA Offer sheet in the summer of 2007, I fully endorsed the move in a column I wrote in the Edmonton Sun and suggested on-air that Penner would outscore the recentl acc football scores y departed Ryan Smyth over the course of the deal.As Penner heads off to join Smyth in L.A. he has 93 goals and Smyth 84. Penner has been the healthier of the two players for sure but he has not had the privilege of playing with Anze Kopitar the last couple of seasons, either.And speaking of the last two seasons, Penner has scored 53 goals for a last place team in the NHL. Only 14 wingers in the l acc football scores eague have scored more.The $4.25 M per season cap hit that Penner received with the RFA offer sheet from Lowe was lambasted by several around the hockey world including the blustery Brian Burke.The same Burke who dragged his heels to work on a deal for Penner who contributed to the Anaheim Ducks winning the 2007 Stanley Cup; while signing Todd Bertuzzi to a two-year deal at a cool four million per acc football scores year.The Ducks would buy out Bertuzzi after one season.Based upon Penner-s production as an Oiler, $4.25 M per year turned out to be a fair deal. He uses his brains on the ice, lets the puck do the work and does not exert energy when unnecessary.Granted he picked his spots in terms of playing physically, but that is part of the reason he missed so few games over the last four years.The times when acc football scores he did fight were to usually defend his smaller teammates just ask Ales Hemsky and Linus Omark acc football scores
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