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Originally Posted by UKflames
Not picking on Greenlantern but this statement just about sums up how I have seen the last few days. It is amazing how so many people are turning the reasons why they hate Feaster into a positive to love Burke.
In this example it is okay for Burke not to be doing the drafting, and to leave that to the team around him, but where Feaster has done this it is his fault that we have drafted badly (in some peoples opinion) over the last couple of years, not the team around him. So in next years draft none of it will be Burkes fault, regardless of what neanderthal goon we draft, it will be the people around him, can't wait to hear that excuse.
We all knew that we had a smallish team coming into this season but it was year one of the rebuild, these things do take time. We were not going to suddenly create out of thin air a brand new hard hitting, high IQ, 200ft game, amazingly skilled team, everyone here was on board with the change wouldn't happen over night. Now that Feaster has been fired it is his fault that we didn't change the team overnight, he should have just traded for for all of the other teams top players, that is what Burke apparently is going to do.
I think some peoples love of Burke is clouding their judgement on how he is going to pull off this swift one season rebuild and it starts with shifting out a lot of the prospects that we were excited to see develop.
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Look at this Burke team from the recent past:
http://www.nhl.com/ice/playerstats.h...ewName=summary
Not a single player over 100 PIMs. Colton Orr played the year in the AHL. This idea that we're going to be a team full of goons just isn't true. When the Leafs hired Carlyle that's when they became goon central (or at least dress 2 goons a night central).