For all those questing if Burke would have drafted Gaudreau or not here you go.
Set to embark on his first draft with the Flames organization, Burke offered a nugget of advice to general manager Brad Treliving -- believe in the list.
“I’ve always gone by the scout’s list,” Burke said. “We take the best player available. We follow that list religiously. The only rule I have is if you try to change that list on the floor, we’re going to have a fist-fight.
“If you’ve got it right, if you do the work, you should go off your list. I’ve done it now 20-something years always off the list.
“The one time when we drafted Tyler Biggs we had two picks close by, Stuart Percy and him, and Dave Morris, our chief scout, said ‘I think we better flip these guys’. I think we took Tyler Biggs first and a couple picks later we took Stuart Percy. He said ‘I’m worried that the two picks in between, we wont get the guy’ so I let him switch it.
“I said, ‘you realize that’s a firing offense, but we’ll do it’. I think his instincts were right. Later, a team that picked between us told us they would’ve taken him…would’ve taken Tyler Biggs.”
After all, in all his experience Burke’s learned to trust his scouts and their process.
“They’re the backbone of the industry,” he said. “I think if you don’t listen to them, first off, you demoralize the group and second, then why have them if you’re not going to listen to them?
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