What if Dustin Penner stays with the Ducks?

[8LX7psQ]

Like the topic asks... What if Penner never gets/signs that offer sheet? Does he have a better career? Better work ethic?

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[HOLDITHERE*]

He'd just be another John LeClair

 

[HanSolo]

There are factions of Ducks fans that might disagree with me...but the way I saw it, he was a floater on this team. He benefited from the play of players he was surrounded with. He didn't create good play often. Very rarely really. He had enough talent to benefit from those plays and capitalize.

I don't think if he had stayed he'd be much different. Pat Maroon made him expendable and I'd rather have him. He's more of a difference maker with and without the puck.

 

[Terry Yake]

i think he might have had a slightly better career but better work ethic? i highly doubt it

it's a shame penner was so lazy, he could have done so much more with that body

 

[Teemu Salami]

There are factions of Ducks fans that might disagree with me...but the way I saw it, he was a floater on this team. He benefited from the play of players he was surrounded with. He didn't create good play often. Very rarely really. He had enough talent to benefit from those plays and capitalize.

I don't think if he had stayed he'd be much different. Pat Maroon made him expendable and I'd rather have him. He's more of a difference maker with and without the puck.

Think he meant after the cup season. I don't really have much of an opinion on it.

 

[HanSolo]

Think he meant after the cup season. I don't really have much of an opinion on it.

That's what I get for skimming.

 

[salsa man]

There are factions of Ducks fans that might disagree with me...but the way I saw it, he was a floater on this team. He benefited from the play of players he was surrounded with. He didn't create good play often. Very rarely really. He had enough talent to benefit from those plays and capitalize.

I don't think if he had stayed he'd be much different. Pat Maroon made him expendable and I'd rather have him. He's more of a difference maker with and without the puck.

The OP's talking about when Penner signed the offer sheet with Edmonton in 07. Pat Maroon didn't make anybody expendable back then.

 

[Shakey Rustie]

The more important question, would Penner still get injured eating pancakes?

 

[Hockeyfan2390]

I didn't realize that nobody has signed him yet this year.

 

[Classicnamesup]

I didn't realize that nobody has signed him yet this year.

Was wondering where he was now, yikes

 

[Terry Yake]

Was wondering where he was now, yikes

from what i've heard he currently DJ's at nightclubs in the newport beach, ca area

i'm not kidding

 

[HanSolo]

The OP's talking about when Penner signed the offer sheet with Edmonton in 07. Pat Maroon didn't make anybody expendable back then.

And that's what YOU get for skimming. I already admitted my goof.

 

[bminucci]

from what i've heard he currently DJ's at nightclubs in the newport beach, ca area

i'm not kidding

Yes he does. My cousin trains his sister Ashley. Too bad Penner doesn't have her work ethic.

 

[Reaper45]

from what i've heard he currently DJ's at nightclubs in the newport beach, ca area

i'm not kidding

Only slightly better than what Lombardi thought would happen to him...

Talking about Dustin Penner, Dean Lombardi gave this quote to Craig regarding Penner’s future: “Dustin is at the cross-roads of his career. He can choose to use his athletic ability to either become a dominant power forward in the National Hockey League or be a dominant number four hitter for the El Cid Lounge in a men’s softball league—the choice is his.†The El Cid Lounge, according to Yelp, is a bar in Ludlow, Mass., about a half-hour outside of Lombardi’s hometown of Holyoke.

http://lakingsinsider.com/2011/05/26/golf-kaunisto-and-the-el-cid-lounge/

 

[pbgoalie]

Katella Avenue would have looked like Route A1A in Florida with
IHOP, Waffle Houses strung around the Pond

 

[Tecumseh]

Dustin Penner is a lazy bum who has no drive or good work ethics. It all started with an offer sheet that he had no business getting. It wouldn't have mattered whether the Ducks matched it or not.

 

[Pyrophorus]

I'd sign him for the playoffs.

IF we're there.

 

[Classicnamesup]

from what i've heard he currently DJ's at nightclubs in the newport beach, ca area

i'm not kidding

Thank you for this delicious tidbit of information

 

[bminucci]

I'd sign him for the playoffs.

IF we're there.

After a whole season of not playing I am not sure you want that version of pancakes.

 

[Palffy3314]

He was great in the playoffs for the Kings, but I guess he didn't show enough effort to stay in the league. He would have a great game every now and then where he looked like a pretty decent player, then disappear for awhile. I'm still surprised nobody picked him up in the off season though. I figured some team would be dumb/generous enough to give him a contract (or a tryout.)

 

[DonKingKong]

They still don't win another cup?

Penner leaving wasn't the deal breaker.