Brian Burke to Toronto.

[DirtyKash]

Clearly I must be missing something here, but can someone explain to me why in the **** would Brian Burke leave such a nice situation like Anaheim to go work for such a shitty situation like Toronto. Thanks.

[Foster]

He is getting the whole shbang.
Whatever he says goes.

[realmofotalk]

Who wants to be the one to figure out how to fit both Beauchemin and Pahlsson under the cap?

[Halladay_is_God]

Burke didn't leave a nice situation in Anaheim, he left a ****ed up sink hole in Anaheim

no prospects and his drafting in Anaheim has been horrible, even Bobby Ryan got ****ed by Burke

and a lot of UFA he left for the other guy to sign

[realmofotalk]

Ask any Duck fan before Burke arrived if they will take a ****ed up sinkhole if it meant winning the Cup and they would've taken it any day of the week. The only UFA who they really need to keep are Beauchemin and Pahlsson. Scott Niedermayer probably won't be re-signed, but at least his salary comes off the books.

[Halladay_is_God]

he only won the cup cuz the young players he didn't draft or sign were ready to step up when they did (Getzlaf, perry, Kunitz, Penner,), Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger FELL into his lap from re-signing Rob Niedermayer to a long term contract at a price Rob wouldn't have gotten anywhere else, and then Pronger and his wife destroyed whatever value the Oilers and Lowe could get by leaking they want out of Edmonton to the media when they were in Mexico on vacation (very classy move ) instead of dealing with it quietly like a real professional. Teemu Selanne just wanted to comeback to Anaheim and nowhere else after a terrible time in Colorado with Kariya and co.

then letting Niedermayer decide whatever he wanted to do cuz he deserved it? yeah that won't fly with any other team (Selanne was no problem with me since he was UFA), he should have made Niedermayer decide before the season started if he wanted to play, I wouldn't put up with that from anyone and I'm surprised Burke did.

Todd Bertuzzi - great deal, for everyone else in the NHL, he over-paid on money and length because of friendship that's it and now Anaheim has to deal with Bertuzzi's cap hit for another season with the buy-out.

Andy McDonald for Doug Weight - great deal for St Louis, Weight was nothing but crap for the ducks, even if it was meant to be a cap trade to allow Niedermayer to play, still a very bad trade to make, alot of other options could have been done if Burke was this so called genius he was made out to be.

Ilya Bryzgalov - losing him for nothing on waivers to a divisional rival, big thumbs up

Marc-Andre Bergeron for a 3rd round pick, I got to watch him a lot in Edmonton, he was not worth a 3rd round pick at all, hell the oilers had to give 3rd round pick with Bergeron to get Denis Grebeshkov from the Islanders, Burke was lucky he got a 3rd back from Minnesota for Bergeron.

2nd and 3rd round picks for Parros and Brad May, Parros was on waivers for nothing like 1-2 weeks before that trade was made, and May was dirty cheap not doing anything worth keeping a NHL job at the time. He was lucky those trades did just enough

Burke one and only good trade in Anaheim was dumping Sergei Fedorov for Francois Beauchemin (although he had to take Todd Marchant from waivers as a side deal).


as a final note, yes Burke deserves SOME credit for getting a cup to Anaheim but no way he should get all credit like most believe

He's Toronto's problem now anyway

[DirtyKash]

That's the longest post you've ever made.

[realmofotalk]

Granted, Pronger made it clear that he wanted out of Edmonton, but he wasn't exactly handed over to Burke nor did he say Anaheim was the only place he wanted to be traded to. Kevin Lowe bought the hype that Joffrey Lupul had the potential to score 40 goals a season. Also, Burke threw in 2 first round picks, and you know Burke would have never heard the end of it if Pronger didn't lead the Ducks to the Cup.

I have no problem with Selanne wanting to just come back to Anaheim, considering the Southern California teams always lose players to the greener pastures of Colorado and Detroit. Sucks for the Avs.

I agreed when they were made that the Bertuzzi, Weight, and Brzygalov moves all sucked dick. Burke had a trade in place for Brzygalov prior to the season but the other GM backed off. He had no control over who claimed Bryzgalov once he was placed on waivers.

[realmofotalk]

Tellqvist records another gem of a game. Bryzgalov isn't looking like the best goaltender even on his own team.

[realmofotalk]

Ilya Bryzgalov - losing him for nothing on waivers to a divisional rival, big thumbs up

Who needs Bryzgalov when you can score 7 goals against him at his own house?

[Halladay_is_God]

yet who's tied with the ducks

[realmofotalk]

Phoenix is a ***** ass lucky team, like a baseball team that is playing well above its pyth record. They have scored almost 20 less goals than they have allowed (they being mainly Bryzgalov).

[Halladay_is_God]

its the d-backs all over again

[realmofotalk]

Bryzgalov allows 7 goals again, this time to the Flames. Mr. Inconsistency strikes again!