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Uncle Leo
24 yrs old so he's entering his prime now, he looks like he's a 30/30 guy now, but who knows if he can push above that or not. One of my fav's right now.
When Schenn got traded my Mom was so upset, she run to her bedroom which is our garage and pored gasoline on herself. Luckily I was able to lock the doors untill she fell asleep.
When Schenn got traded my Mom was so upset, she run to her bedroom which is our garage and pored gasoline on herself. Luckily I was able to lock the doors untill she fell asleep.
When Schenn got traded my Mom was so upset, she run to her bedroom which is our garage and pored gasoline on herself. Luckily I was able to lock the doors untill she fell asleep.
When Schenn got traded my Mom was so upset, she run to her bedroom which is our garage and pored gasoline on herself. Luckily I was able to lock the doors untill she fell asleep.
He also gave his buddy Ron who had accomplished nothing in his years in T.O. a contract extension then canned him shortly after. He also gave Komisarek an outrageous contract for him to be sat in the press box. Tim Connelly? Monster? XLB? Armstrong? Lebda? Versteeg? drafting goons in the top half of the draft?
For every great move Burke made there was a bone headed one as well. I admit Burke was great when it came to trades. However when it came to everything else he was a disaster. The vast majority of his free agent signings were garbage and outside of Kadri/Rielly his drafting was nothing to write home about.
Burke also credited Nonis with doing most of the work on those trades anyways. I'll take Nonis over Burke any day of the week.
When Schenn got traded my Mom was so upset, she run to her bedroom which is our garage and pored gasoline on herself. Luckily I was able to lock the doors untill she fell asleep.
People tend to forget that the Leafs didn't trade for Pronger back in 2006, simply because JFJ didn't want to give up Alex Steen, citing him as "future captain material". That would have been a better return than Stempniak+Mayers any day of the week.
People tend to forget that the Leafs didn't trade for Pronger back in 2006, simply because JFJ didn't want to give up Alex Steen, citing him as "future captain material". That would have been a better return than Stempniak+Mayers any day of the week.
People tend to forget that the Leafs didn't trade for Pronger back in 2006, simply because JFJ didn't want to give up Alex Steen, citing him as "future captain material". That would have been a better return than Stempniak+Mayers any day of the week.
Yes, one of many good trades made by Burke. I never got how you guys hated the Kessel trade either. That worked out for Boston about as well as it possibly could and Toronto may still have won. Think if they would have got Nino Niederreiter or something like that from those picks. They would have had a lynching in Boston. I still don't get how Burke was fired. He did a good job.
It was all optics at the time.
Leafs were a terrible team, and while Kessel was fun to watch, didn't really ever give the impression that he was going to turn into the player he was today.
Meanwhile Seguin was winning cups and looking like one of the best young centers in the game (not to mention terrorizing the Leafs every time we played them/him) and Dougie Hamilton was developing nicely.
I'll admit that for all of Kessel's progress into another stratosphere of elite play, it was the Seguin trade out of the Leafs conference/division that really let me be OK with the trade.
You could potentially argue that Kessel's value right now, is hell of a lot more than two 1st round draft picks.
I am probably the only one who would be willing to give a lower draft pick/prospect to get Schenn back to be a bottom pair shut down guy.
Would make my jersey relevant again
We deserved a break. Courtnall,S.Niedermayer,Luongo,Rask,Boyes,Steen. Every dog has his day.
People tend to forget that the Leafs didn't trade for Pronger back in 2006, simply because JFJ didn't want to give up Alex Steen, citing him as "future captain material". That would have been a better return than Stempniak+Mayers any day of the week.
kessels value is undeniably worth more then 2 firsts. i think if you evaluate the trade at the time the value was fine based on draft picks but the knock was that given where the leafs were at in their rebuilding phase it was not wise to move draft picks period. it would be like florida or calgary moving picks right now. burke as he says himself was impatient and saw the team missing top end talent so he went out and got some.
i think despite everything that has gone one we made out better then people thought we would because of the way kessel as evolved but imo kessel and seguin are pretty even. if all things are equal the center > the winger and then hamilton is just gravy.
hard to ***** about it now though. you win some an you lose some. whatever the difference might be in the kessel trade was more then made up for in the trades to follow between burke and nonis - phaneuf, lupul, gardiner, bernier and obviously jvr