Brian Burke confused a lot of people last night by revealing that young Nazem Kadri was the guy he wanted all along and not superstar in the making John Tavares, leaving the Toronto media scrambling on the Internet to find out just who exactly they would be writing about for this mornings papers when they seemed sure it would be John Tavares. For months we had been lead to believe that the dream was to move up in the draft to pick Tavares and for months leading into the draft, Leafs GM Brian Burke was saying that was exactly his plan, but when it came to the crunch he called Kadri to the stage as the Leafs new hot prospect. Burke of course was trying to make Kardi feel wanted but he would have saved himself from looking like a fool had he just kept quiet with the media back at the draft lottery all them months ago. I could see then that it would be a costly (in terms of players they would have to give up) mistake to try move up for one hot prospect in Tavares and one that was very unlikely to happen.

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