You don't acquire that type of player to address depth issues. Players like Torres are the real target
Evincar
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Because he's old, awful defensively and injury prone. He would have to score 70-80 points to justify his 4-5 million cap hit.
I see Burns as more of a trigger man now. He doesn't seem to handle the heavier forechecks or the swarm nearly as well as Boyle does. Burns is more of a turnover machine than Boyle. If Burns can't skate it out his go to move seems to be turnover. He maybe able to adjust, but I wouldn't count on it
The discussion is about the power play. There is no real swarming fore-check from a short-handed team so please stop this nonsense you spew about his go-to move is a turnover like it's something he tries to do. It's a ridiculous bias you have and you bring it up every time Burns comes up.
The discussion is about a specific situation. That doesn't pigeonhole anyone into a specialist. Try to catch up here. They swarm at the points in the defensive zone. They don't swarm on the fore-check. Try again.
That is why I talked about them as two separate things. Notice my use of the word or. He doesn't handle either very well.
Burns is very good at making space for himself up front and he is a huge help to the Sharks regarding entires at forward. Burns is why the Sharks were able to spread out their offense last season. At least until Torres and Havlat got injured
And that's where your problem lies. This assumption that he doesn't handle swarms at the point very well. There is nothing that you have that legitimately points to that being accurate.
Squeeven
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Hmm, interesting how Lebrun pointed us out the other day but we're not even mentioned in this article. Are the Sharks still in the running for him?
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=675807&navid=nhl:topheads
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=675807&navid=nhl:topheads
The Ice Hockey Dude
Ack! Thbbft!
DW talks to everyone and is "interested" in that way. Doesn't mean it'll happen. Given today's deals we don't have the cap to spend unless it's Havlats IR dollars.
On the draft ticker, they listed 10+ teams he is speaking to and the Sharks were not one (liked like East or Canadian teams).
Audio Outlaw
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pappaf2
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And eyeballs aren't the most reliable way to pass judgment either thus it's not something that should be said since it can't be supported.
Because no team is going to sign him for any more then what his buyout is and his current contract is added together to equal his previous bought out contract.
Same goes for the players in the nhlpa. Buy outs still count against the 50-50 split.
That still doesn't make what you said any more true because my eyeballs can say that it isn't, not support it, and it holds the same meaning which cancels out yours.
No argument needed. It's plainly obvious burns was the trigger not the qb when he was in Minn. so the point stands that burns has never qb'd a pp at the level Boyle has... Not now or previously. It may be possible in the future but your assertion that he has contradicts the facts.
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