SAN FRANCISCO -- "I like a lot about our team."
I'd asked Brian Burke on the Penguins' just-completed California trip, this in a talk the two of us had at ice level after a practice in Los Angeles, to comment on exactly that. The state of his team roughly three weeks out from the NHL's March 3 trade deadline. And that's where he, most predictably, began.
"I like our leadership," he proceeded. "I like our forwards. I like our defensemen. I like our goaltenders. I like our coaches. There's really everything about this team to like.