Back in April Brian Burke stated that he wants to upgrade in goal, at centre and make his team bigger and harder to play against. Of course he has been saying that for 4 years now. Which makes me wonder what he has been doing since April.
He wasn't able to swing a goalie or centre at the draft. His first pick was a defenseman.
He once again sat out the free agency frenzy. He doesn't agree with the cap circumventing contracts handed out. He did sign a 3rd line centre - Jay McClement and Euro-pest Leo Komarov.
He said he was going to upgrade through trades but he wasn't too interested in paying the price to land Roberto Luongo. James Reimer and Ben Scrivens are good enough. So he made just one trade - flipping an underachieving defenseman (Luke Schenn) for an underachieving winger (James van Reimsdyk). The winger can just move over to centre and fill that hole.
So as it stands the upgrades that will get us into the playoffs are van Reimsdyk, McClement, Komarov and Scrivens.
Makes you want to wish for a labour disruption this fall. Or maybe Burke is actually holding out for the new CBA to somehow rescue him through possible amnesty buyouts and other goodies.
George Costanza had a good trick for how to make people think you are busy.
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