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    Home / Season Review / Dustin Penner: 2013-14 Season Review

    Dustin Penner: 2013-14 Season Review

    By Peter Hassett

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    May 28, 2014 11:55 am

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    Photo: Jared Wickerham

    Dustin Penner was acquired at the trade deadline to improve the Caps’ flagging top six. Instead, he played garbage minutes on the bottom line. He was a huge disappointment, but was it his fault? (Not really, no.)

    By the Numbers

    18 Games played
    12 Average time on ice per game
    1 Goals
    2 Assists
    47.3% Shot attempt percentage during 5v5
    100% Goal percentage during 5v5
    4.9% On-ice shooting percentage during 5v5
    100% On-ice saving percentage during 5v5

    Peter’s Take

    I was pretty excited about the addition of Dustin Penner to the Capitals. With Martin Erat in the rear view, it seemed for a fraction of a second that the Caps had put the bad blood behind them and brought in a productive top-six forward replacement. Nope. Dustin Penner basically filled Erat’s spot in the lineup and did nothing of note.

    Imagined by some (including, I think, George McPhee) as a potential opposite wing for Alex Ovechkin, D.P. instead spent most of his time with Tom Wilson on the fourth line and a short stint opposite Troy Brouwer in the season’s final week. To his credit, Penner didn’t get scored on, but he also didn’t move the needle much.

    I don’t have much more to say. No one really expects Penner to stick around, though I’d bet Barry Trotz could use him better than Adam Oates.

    D.P. on RMNB

    • McPhee didn’t say outright that he pictured Penner on the top line, but he did say this: “I sure like what Knuble did for us a few years ago. It’s nice to have those guys who can just go to the front of the net and just hold people off and jam pucks in.”
    • Awesome awful press conference.
    • Uhh…

    In Pictures

    Beautiful no-look pass to Joel Ward for his first Caps apple. Penner and Ward are underrated and underutilized PP players.

    Hitting up Obama for a place to stay.

    This shirt would’ve been more popular, but it also suffered from the Oates Effect.

    Cute girl.

    Your Turn

    No way he comes back, right? I mean– no way. Do you even want him back? ‘Cause I kinda do.

    Read more: Japers Rink

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