It still blows my mind that Brian Burke lost a trade (Kessel) to Chiarelli.....smh
- Turnitaround
People keep forgetting he traded 2 first round picks that everyone thought would be in the range of the 10th pick, give or take a handful of spots.
No one expected Toronto to tank that hard, especially with Kessel (adding his points totals) on the team.
The coaching & players lost that trade for Burke, otherwise Boston would've ended up with 2 mid round draft picks that would have been a 2nd or 3rd line forward and a bottom 4 Dman.
Learned a valuable lesson the hard way but it paid off in Toronto. They havent traded their 1st round picks as easily, or at all in recent years.