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Reflecting on the Dustin Penner Deal
by Alanah McGinley on 05/08/08 at 11:10 AM ET
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From Robert Tychkowski at the Edmonton Sun,
Much ado, it turns out, about nothing.
“It’s just so typical of how people jump to conclusions,” Edmonton’s general manager said yesterday in a telephone interview from the World Championships.
Lowe took enormous heat at the time of the deal, and was forced to defend himself during every subsequent attack from Burke.
Now that the draft order is complete (except for 27, 28, 29 and 30, depending on how the final four play out), and the evidence is there in black and white, there has to be a sense of vindication. Unfortunately there’s no undoing the bad blood and the black mark the the feud left on Burke, Lowe and the NHL.
Update 12:18pm ET: More on the adventures of Penner, Lowe, Burke & Co. from David Staples in the Edmonton Journal today.
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I really don’t know what the fuss is about where the Ducks pick is in relation to the Oilers pick. That’s not what the Penner deal was about.
Kevin Lowe held both picks last summer, and could have had them both today, but gave up the better one in order to increase Penner’s salary nearly tenfold. The question still remains (and won’t be answerable for a few years still): is five years of Penner worth the sizeable contract plus the sacrificing of draft picks?
There was never any deal where the two teams switched 1st-round draft picks with each other, so the relative value of the picks shouldn’t be a focal point, I think.
Posted by Earl Sleek from Los Angeles, CA on 05/08/08 at 11:32 AM ET