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Originally Posted by FlameZilla
The big difference between now and pre-2004 era is that small players were, with few obvious exceptions, completely obsolete with all the clutching/grabbing etc. In the current game small players can be very effective, but they still need a complimenting physical force to make space for them to operate.
I'm glad Burke has come out and said he wants big players to compliment the smaller guys; not that he wants to overhaul the roster and ditch the diminutives.
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People make it sound like Burke hates any players under 6 feet tall but lets not forget he tried to sign Cammalleri when he became a UFA. He doesn't have any issues with smaller guys but he doesn't want a small, soft team like last year's team which was as soft a team as you will see.
Burke has made mistakes over his career but what GM hasn't? Anyone calling Ken Holland a genius for signing Weiss to that horrible contract? At least Burke has a track record and after seeing unproven GM's like Button, Sutter, and Feaster (yeah he won a cup by mostly inheriting a good team but all his work after was abysmal as it gets) I'm happy to see a guy running the team that has had good success (I admit a bit of a stretch calling the Leafs a success but they were heading in the right direction making the playoffs again after taking over from the disastrous mess Ferguson left) in three different teams.