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Burke Wants Some Draft Picks Back
by Paul on 12/10/08 at 09:17 AM ET
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from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
Burke’s mission over the next few months is to recapture some of the draft picks surrendered by former GM Cliff Fletcher in recent months to acquire players like Mikhail Grabovski, Jamal Mayers and Ryan Hollweg, and he can use the fact the club is about $8 million (all figures U.S.) shy of the NHL’s $56.7 million cap to try and get those picks.
How? Well, there are more than a few teams worried about where they sit these days on the NHL payroll chart, with concerns about the economy and a potential drop in the NHL salary cap by 2010 figuring into their worries.
Detroit GM Ken Holland said yesterday clubs are now looking to see what the hockey world – and the global economy – looks like by July 1 next year when the free agent market opens.
“To sit here today and make a game plan, well, how can anybody do that?” he said.
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