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Originally Posted by transplant99
Its a stat they had someone tracking each game...Chris Snow maybe? I dunno, but he has no reason to make it up. Maybe I didnt hear him right or whatever, it was just a casual comment he made a couple weeks back on HNIC when they were talking about G's handling the puck in a general sense.
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I would disagree with this.
There is a lot I like about Brian Burke but I don't believe for a second that he is above making things up in the media in order to massage his own image. He was part of the group that went out and acquired Mike Smith, and at the time Smith's puck-handling skills were promoted by Flames management as a key component in their decision to target him. Even after the fact and now that he is outside of the organisation Burke is still going to do what he can to defend those decisions to which he was party.