Brian Burke is about the last guy I would’ve expected to be a believer in advanced analytics that have taken the NHL by storm over the last number of years.
That’s no shot at Burke, but he always has come across as a big eye-test, old-school kind of hockey evaluator.
But despite all that, according to transcription from TheScore’s John Matisz, while the president of hockey operations with the Flames, the team halted trade talks with Buffalo on a Rasmus Ristolainen trade.
“We were thinking about making a trade for him in Calgary,” Brian Burke, the former president of hockey operations for the Flames, said last week during a panel discussion in Toronto.