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Originally Posted by burnitdown
I was more or less ok with his comments on Ryan and Yandle. What worried me was how he pushed to leave Seth Jones off the team...not because of his play but because he had a nightmare that he cost them the tournament due to his young age. Also, Jack Johnson has been laughably bad for a long while now when looking at advanced statistics. Pushing hard for him to be on the team cause he's competitive and won't let the team down worries me that he doesn't follow advanced stats at all.
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99% sure the Burke dream comment was a joke in response to Poile mentioning his dream about Jack Johnson.
I wouldn't want a 19 year old Jones on my team either. We just got through watching him be average in the Memorial Cup... now they are going to put him on Team USA? If Poile wasn't running the show for team USA I doubt he'd be much of a consideration at this point.
As for Burke's comments... he's throwing out his opinions. That's what he is there for... I'm surprised he let the quotes out there but that's Burke. I'm sure the other guys had equally juicy quotes but didn't allow them to be published.