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04/21/2018 at 6:53pm EDT

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

- Have they grown tired yet of Brian Burke in Calgary the way they grew tired of him in Toronto before that?

In his past nine years as a team executive, these past five as president of hockey operations for the Flames following four as president and general manager of the Maple Leafs, Macho Man’s teams have qualified for the playoffs twice, won one round, and have fired three coaches.

He has his Stanley Cup from Anaheim in 2007, when Scott Niedermayer decided he wanted to play with his brother and Burke’s then BFF Kevin Lowe gifted him Chris Pronger, and nobody can take that away from him....

- The Wild have qualified for the playoffs for six straight years after the twin free-agent signings of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter during the summer of 2012 after having missed the previous four seasons. So there is that.

But Minnesota, losers in five to Winnipeg, has gone out in the first round three straight times and has won just two playoff rounds in the past six years.

And there are eight years to go at just over $7.538 million per for each on the contracts for Suter, who missed the playoffs with a broken ankle, and Parise, who went down in Game 3 with a broken sternum....

a bit more on each of the above plus dealing with headshots and more...

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