Dustin Penner Removed from TSN Network After Ridiculous Tweets

Dustin Penner is a former NHL player/current NHL free agent who was slated to be part of TSN’s TradeCentre program, covering the NHL trade deadline on Monday.

Dustin Penner has been known to “toe the line” on social media before…

I know prostitution isn't legal in cali but there's no other way to explain 19yo "model" drivin a G-wagon...is there? http://t.co/YsfeJo4mUJ
— Dustin Penner (@Dustinpenner25) January 21, 2014

Hey @twitter u should make a brown check mark for pieces of ?(crap) on here so that the general public knows without them having to talk ?
— Dustin Penner (@Dustinpenner25) October 10, 2013

Dustin Penner said some things, over the weekend, on Twitter…

Is it always consensual if she's your girlfriend? Asking for my gf...& shortly arriving police
— Dustin Penner (@Dustinpenner25) March 1, 2015

I came up with the joke with my gf U idiots freaking out about this.
— Dustin Penner (@Dustinpenner25) March 1, 2015

Is it a rape joke if it's your girlfriend? Is this even my girlfriend?!?!
— Dustin Penner (@Dustinpenner25) March 1, 2015

Furthermore my gf and I were in lying in bed and the hypothetical question was "raised" "what if I had been sleeping?" And then we laughed
— Dustin Penner (@Dustinpenner25) March 1, 2015

Oh and I was the one sleeping.
— Dustin Penner (@Dustinpenner25) March 1, 2015

Dustin Penner has been removed from TSN coverage.

@AshonIce @TSN_Sports Dustin will not be part of our TradeCentre coverage tomorrow
— TSN PR (@TSN_PR) March 1, 2015

Alongside TSN’s Cabral Richards, Penner was slated to have his own segment, on Monday’s Broadcast, re: the trade deadline. The 32-year-old winger was in the league as recent as last year, and after going unsigned in the offseason, Penner is still eligible to be picked up as an unrestricted free agent. Regardless if he can still perform at a NHL-level, something tells me that this isn’t going to happen in the near future.

Sorry to break this to you, Dustin, but rape is never funny — let alone rape jokes on Twitter. It’s the social media equivalent of saying “BOMB!” on an airplane.

Oh it’s totally ok though, guys! He apologized for himself AND his girlfriend …

I see the offensive side of my joke. On behalf of those who laughed, my gf & I included, I apologize. We understand we are awful people.
— Dustin Penner (@Dustinpenner25) March 1, 2015

He’s so sincere that he hasn’t even deleted the rape joke tweets yet! Boy, did he learn his lesson.

Apology accepted, Dustin! Don’t worry, i’m sure the internet will just totally forget about this and not make a big deal of it.

R.I.P. Dustin Penner’s broadcast career.