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Burke Keeps Talking Moves
by Paul on 11/24/09 at 10:32 AM ET
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from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,
When it was suggested that Jason Blake doesn’t exactly pay his own way with his meagre goal-scoring numbers and that he would be a candidate to be sent packing, Burke said: “Does anyone on this team work harder than Jason Blake? There has to be an element of fairness in this.”
That is the difficulty Burke finds himself in. Some of this terrible Leafs team is his. Some of it was inherited. The mix of old and new has not worked out at all. And Burke, being stubborn, stands behind his free-agent signings and trades of the summer. In other words, if players are buried, they won’t be his acquisitions.
“It’s a fair comment to say that many of the moves I’ve made haven’t panned out yet at all,” Burke said. “(Mike) Komisarek had a slow start. (Francois) Beauchemin had a slow start. I would go back and sign them again tomorrow knowing they’ve had a slow start. I believe in them. I know what they can do. They’ve both played their way out of it and played well. But we went 0-and-7 while they found their game.
“When you’re the guy driving the bus, you get paid to make these calls. Virtually every one of them seems wrong at this time. Yet I don’t believe they are. I still believe in the blueprint. It requires patience.”
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