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Where Will The Leafs Be Next Year At This Time?
by Paul on 04/11/09 at 10:40 AM ET
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from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
He rises every day by around 5:30 a.m., works hard and lives hard, creating the impression he’s plotting 24 hours a day how to beat the other guy.
How much of the Burke image is reality, and how much is perception, depends on whom you talk to.
But there’s this palpable sense of momentum, of pushing, of aggression, that is undeniable.
With the Maple Leafs wrapping up their season tonight, it’s as though Burke began next season several weeks ago. Right now, he’s calculating ways to move up in the June entry draft, chasing highly touted U.S. collegiate defenceman Matt Gilroy and sending reverberations throughout the Swedish Elite League with his urgent pursuit of 24-year-old Farjestad goaltender Jonas Gustavsson.
It’s not at all clear that the Leafs will be a better hockey team next season, or that in April 2010 they’ll play their first Stanley Cup playoff game in six years.
But Burke and his lieutenants sure create the perception that they’re striving to improve, and that ultimately they will compete with the best teams in the league.
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