I don't know if that ship has necessarily sailed. Burke, when in Toronto said he would never ask a player to waive his NTC/NMC as that was something they negotiated in their contract and they shouldn't have to be asked to waiver on a promise management made, whether he gave it to them, or previous management did - he did not want to ask any player to waive it. Given the Sutter administration handing those out like candy, how many moves could a guy like Burke make? If what the poster a few weeks ago said that Burke was in town inquiring about the President position (or GM, we don't know), perhaps his advice was to get current management to clean out the NTC's/NMC's, and once there are players on the team without it, he'd be able to come in and have more flexibility to make moves without going against his principles.
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