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Originally Posted by MattyC
Fair enough, he is definitely sending a message (which also tells me that Sven hasn't listened or adjusted to what they were asking of him thus far). You obviously already have a default opinion of Burke if you want to get into the honor of his intent though. I don't know what you were expecting of him, but tact hasn't ever really been a great quality of his. I would think his intent is to try and improve Sven Baertschi. Why else would he do it? The avenue he chose to use is debatable (as evidenced by this thread), but to say he would do this for any other reason than to try and improve Sven's game is disingenuous IMO. I'm sure Burke would rather have Sven turn out to be the player he can be rather than go through the process of trading him or the like. How could this possibly be self-serving?
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It was once again a quote that got a lot of play in the papers and TV. He's the biggest prospect and he knew it would cause a stir. There's far, far more history of Burke doing that than there is of Baertschi not listening (this would be the first time). He does have a long history of such quotes. They're unnecessary, self serving, unprofessional, but worse, potentially damaging to our best prospect.