Dustin Penner Quotations

I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

That's what I was doing in Portland. When I got up here, for some reason I wasn't doing it, I was trying to (pass) too quick.

Anytime you score in the first minute of a period, it really lifts your team. At the same time, it deflates the other team.

I waited to make contact and then spun off, like I've been trying to do on a consistent basis.

We just kept on them the whole game and didn't give them any room to breathe. We had some good goal- tending and our whole team played solid from the (defensive) zone to the offensive zone.

It's bittersweet. The last time I was in an all-star game, I was in Grade 11 or 12 in high school. That was a lot of fun. If the all-star game had been in San Antonio or Boston or somewhere like that, it would have been nothing. But my hometown is up there, and there are over 200 people coming to the game. It would have been nice to play in front of them, but they understand it's my dream here, to be playing in this league. It's just too bad, I guess.