Go down the list of who would have gotten the top pick in the last 5 years and you tell me if you actually think that is going to help the bad teams get better. I am sure Chicago would love having McDavid though.
My post was a joke!!!!!! Just like debating on a way to make a chance drawing fair!!!
Yeah, no. How in the hell was I supposed to know that was a joke? "and realize I'm in no way serious". Maybe in your mind when you were writing it maybe. But that's it. You didn't express that well at all.
That's all well and good with him helping the less fortunate and homeless.
I guess Burke must figure he won't be working with another NHL team and will remain at Sportsnet for as long as they want him. So he won't get in trouble for telling stories like that.
Probably the part of the post that clearly says this isn’t reality
With the benefit of hindsight it was a bad move. However at the time trading the 30th and 39th picks for the 22nd pick didn't look like a bad move to trade up. Plus no one knew who Anaheim would even select and how good they would become playing for them.
He wasn't wrong though, he was gone 4 picks before toronto's pick. I understand teams trade and he was being cocky but he was right in the end. Had he turned out to be a superstar no one would be saying anything about it.
What if Toronto wanted to trade up for the 1st overall pick and possibly select Yakupov. That's why we see all teams have interviews with the top rated prospects, even if they won't have a chance to draft them.
Yakupov was close to consensus 1st overall pick in Bob Mackenzies rankings that year was he not. So a majority of teams had him ranked first. It's easy to say you wont take a guy in hindsight when you know how everything played out. Hence Burke giving up Gibsons and Rakell's picks for Biggs. Oilers management can look back and say they never would have done that now because its clear that it was a screw up
I literally said " I understand teams trade" in the post you quoted. But I can understand a guy being ranked #1 doing 30 interviews in a day being annoyed. Spitten chiclets made a joke about teams interviewing Mcdavid and they were picking in the 20's. Edmonton wasn't trading that pick let the kid live a little you will hear all about his reputation once his career starts.
The point is that Burke traded up to draft a player because of his character and grit instead of his skill. Yakupov was right to think an interview with 5th overall Toronto was pointless. If he started to slide from 1st/2nd was an interview going to be what stopped the slide?
I guess it's something Yakupov should have never said and kept a thought like that to himself.
Did you not see my reply where I said what if Toronto wanted to trade up for the 1st pick to select Yakupov. That's why all teams interview the top prospects. Plus it wouldn't have been something out of the question moving from the 5th pick to the 1st pick.
agreed. Sometimes its better to just put on a face than be honest, because this one came back to bite him
Maybe he didn't want to go to Toronto and deal with their media every day. It's not his job to humor some boomer that thinks he's going to red paperclip his way into the top spot.
