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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
Great response, browna.
Not a fan of Burke, though. Love the passion, not a fan of the abrasiveness. I think he'd be fun for a few weeks, but his act would wear thin. A better prospect than Feaster, but not by much, IMO. Is he the man for a rebuild, or too bored with that job?
And would Burke even survive with King and Edwards peering from above?
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Only way Burke would come in is if King was not technically above him in any sort of operational capacity (think, head of the new arena/Stamps/Hitmen/Roughnecks, as was thrown out here with Davidson rumors), and Edwards only becoming involved in certain situations when Burke would go there. Not sure how King would like that; I don't think he would at all so not sure how that dynamic would play out. Burke would make it clear that if he had fingers in his pie from a guy like King, he's gone on the next plane back to Mass.
It doesn't have to be Burke, it just has to be a single, unifying presence in the hockey operations department and decision making areas as opposed to the 3 headed monster they have now, and they've created on their own.
-A guy they probably don't 100% trust in Feaster (and his department), but he'll do what they say because that's why they hired him and they need him to do the daily grunt work.
-King with a self inflated sense of knowing what to do on the hockey operations side, thinking he has a say and gaining that gradually since Darryl left as the over the shoulder watcher of Feaster, appointed by Edwards.
-Edwards with his ideas, put through King (who lops it on top of his opinions) and as the head of the owners, and also trying a little too hard to steer the ship now that he's the kingpin of the owners group, knowing full well they don't have a pure hockey guy as GM, and its up to him and King to keep JF in line (and haven't done that with the ROR and now Iginla thing).
All of the above, IMO of course.
Burke held that trifecta role in Toronto, ANA, and to a lesser extent Vancouver, and he's available now, so his name is more a matter of convenience I guess. But then you're looking at a full cleaning of the house, coaches down to many of the hockey ops guys.