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Originally Posted by ernie
New GMs always reap the rewards of old GMs...even the ones taking over terrible teams. Even Burke who turned the Messier canucks into the Naslund-Bertuzzi canucks reaped the rewards of his predecessors. For one Burke didn't acquire Naslund or Bertuzzi. Quinn acquired Naslund (for Stojanov) and Keenan acquired Bertuzzi when he filled in as GM on an interim basis. Also on that roster before Burke were Ohlund, McCabe and Aucoin. Guys that formed the core of the team under the first couple years of Burke. He also had an unhappy Pavel Bure coming off of a 50 goal season to deal (to get Jovanovski and of course McCabe was used to get the second Sedin).
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Thanks, had forgotten some of that, I will say though having gone over some of this my opinion of Burke has gone up, I think he put the Canucks on a winning trajectory that has essentailly gone on for over a decade, won a cup with the Ducks and appears to have done a better job at Toronto than he might have been given credit for.