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I think my ball hockey team can put a pretty good match-up with the Habs haha...

i think burke has done an admiral job, but he hasnt done an absolutely amazing job.

he has built up a good group of prospects in the marlies etc. and has brought some youth to the team that actually has skill. as i said before, when burke became the GM in Toronto he didn't have much to work with. Since he has became the GM he has made a much better team. There are a few terrible signings on the roster that you would like to avoid, but nobody is perfect, nobody is immune to such mistakes.

I will say on thing though, despite the amount of garbage thrown on John Ferguson Jr, quite a few of the young Leafs/Marlies players are his draft picks. He may not have been a good GM, but he is definitely a good scout for the young players (either that or he got really lucky)

simply stated, someone was willing to trade for tellqvist. Gustavsson, depite his problems in goal, is a better goalie than tellqvist was at comparable times in their careers.

I do not disagree with you that there are better options, but you gotta think if you're one of those struggling teams a 4th or 5th round pick isnt a big loss and maybe Gus plays well through the remaining 20 games of the season...

Regardless, its a moot point cause he's still in Toronto and the trade deadline has past...

I agree that trading for Nash handcuffs the team given their current cap situation. They would need to find a way to get some money off the books. Find some team to trade their some of the 15 million that they are shelling out in overpaid, underachieving players.

Komisarek - 4.5

Connolly - 4.75

Lombardi - 3.5

Armstrong - 3

All of these players are under bad contracts and can easily be replaced with players making a fraction of what they are and the team will be just as good, if not better.

I don't know many teams with almost a quarter of their salary cap used on players that's they are afraid of playing more than 11 minutes a game, with the exception of Connolly.

the final straw was on a powerplay with 5 mins left last night and he was beside the offensive net and wouldnt take two strides to pressure the D man from clearing the rebound out of the zone. He just stood there. Can't handle it anymore. I'm all for giving guys the benefit of the doubt, but at least look like you're trying out there...