HITMEN ACQUIRE PENNER FROM SILVERTIPS

CALGARY, AB — Calgary Hitmen General Manager and Vice President, Business Operations Mike Moore announced today that the club has acquired forward Linden Penner from the Everett Silvertips in exchange for a conditional seventh round pick in the 2014 WHL Bantam Draft.
 
“We identified Linden at the Flames development camp where we thought his play was strong,” said Moore on the 6-3, 220-pound forward.  “He is a big and solid winger who likes to go to the net and will add more size and presence to our lineup.”
 
Linden, a native of Sherwood Park, Alberta, has dressed for one game with the Silvertips this season.  The 18-year-old rookie was one of 44 prospects that attended the Calgary Flames summer development camp on a try-out agreement in July and participated in the 2013 Young Stars Classic in Penticton, B.C. in September.

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EVERETT – The Everett Silvertips announced a trade after Friday’s game that has sent rookie forward Linden Penner to the Calgary Hitmen in exchange for a conditional pick in the 2014 WHL Bantam Draft.  The trade leaves Everett’s active roster at 24 players (13 forwards, nine defensemen and two goaltenders).

The Silvertips have now acquired three draft picks this week, adding the conditional pick from Calgary in addition to the 2014 third-rounder and 2015 sixth-rounder gained from Edmonton earlier this week in exchange for overage winger Reid Petryk.

Penner, 18, skated in one game for the Silvertips this year after being placed on the club’s 50-player protected list during the offseason.  The 1995-born Sherwood Park, Alberta native was a tenth-round pick (#218) of the Saskatoon Blades in the 2010 WHL Bantam Draft.  Penner spent last season with the Whitecourt Wolverines of the Junior-A Alberta Junior Hockey League, recording 34 points (14g/20a) and 70 penalty minutes in 40 appearances.