Don’t you just love Burke? I mean really love the guy. He wanted to get a top six forward and he got just that in Kris Versteeg. Leafs also acquired the rights to left-winger Bill Sweatt in exchange for forwards Viktor Stalberg, Chris DiDomenico and Philippe Paradis. From what I hear, Sweatt is a young player (21) that can skate, who plays a solid two way game and has some scoring upside. He can also be used on the penalty kill. For those of you that are frequent readers of my blog, you might remember me saying that I wouldn’t try to trade for Kris Versteeg. And that was true. My reasoning was that even a cap hindered Chicago team would ask for more for someone like him, especially with many teams interested in that player. One rumor had the asking price too high for Atlanta which is knee deep in prospects and wanting to improve, and Vancouver who I guess were willing to part with a pick and a prospect.  Not to say I wouldn’t like him on the team, I would, but for about exactly what we gave up. In reality, Leafs took full advantage of Chicago’s predicament with this trade, and it’s just the kind of trade we needed. It is picture perfect.

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