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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I've always been pro-Burke although despite his association with the Canucks and Leafs. He's not the greatest GM of all time by any means as he's made his share of mistakes but he usually always comes out on top in trades and his last one of JVR for a 4/5 defenseman in Luke Schenn was the difference maker for the Leafs last season.
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Burke is actually a pretty decent trade architect in my opinion (although i still think the kessel deal was a bad move for the franchise).
looking back at some doozies he put together while with the leafs:
Matthew Lombardi, Cody Franson, 2013 conditional fourth-round pick (if Lombardi plays less than 60 regular-season games over course of 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons) for Brett Lebda, Robert Slaney, 2013 conditional fourth-round pick -> SOLID trade
Anahiem trades J.S. Giguere to Toronto for Vesa Toskala and Jason Blake. -> decent trade when you consider they got a decent goalie for 2 guys they were itching to get out of town.
Bruins trade Joe Colborne, 2011 first-round pick (No. 30 Rickard Rakell), 2012 conditional second-round pick (No. 54 Mike Winther) to Toronto for Tomas Kaberle -> Solid solid trade. potentially (conditional picks) getting three assets for a guy they absolutely needed to get rid of.
Flames trade Dion Phaneuf, Keith Aulie and Fredrik Sjostrom to the Maple Leafs for Niklas Hagman, Jamal Mayers, Matt Stajan and Ian White. -> LOL.....
Anaheim trades Joffrey Lupul, Jake Gardiner and a 2013 conditional fourth-round pick to Toronto for Francois Beauchemin. -> what a ridiculously lopsided trade. lupul goes on to be a top line scorer, gardiner a solid d prospect with huge upside for an overpaid beauchemin (in my opinion).