The Good: Drafting. Other then the first draft (which was pretty clearly a Burke directed draft) I like what he's done at the entry draft.
The Bad: Free Agency. He signs way to many clunkers that end up eating valuable cap space at the bottom of the roster. With the cap the NHL is an efficiency contest and having a Brouwer/Neal->Lucic constantly on your roster really hurts getting over the hump.
Extensions at one point would have been in the "good" column but his failure to get Johnny and Tkachuk to re-up reduced his "score" there and IRT trades I think he's neutral.
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