Brian Burke Said Nail Yakupov's Draft Interview Was So Bad A Scout Almost Fought Him 

Yeah, it looks stupid.

Thank GOD I'm not the only one that noticed

It took me reading this comment to notice. Wow that is bad.

He said one time in an interview that he wears the tie around his neck like that because it pisses people off and he thinks its funny that people get mad about it when he didnt really even do anything to make them mad

He needs his mommy to tie it for him. His mommy is long dead.

yup. just not fair

LOL

Hard to tell where his eyebrows stop and his hairline begins.

He's got nothing on wolfman Ray Bourque.

It’s beating me in a staring contest right now 😝

I like when he came to Anaheim And he made sure JS. Giguere would have the defensive assets to win the Stanley cup

Mountain Bike life 25 can’t complain about that

Took up were the don got chumped off,no bullshit types get it done lol

@Joseph I can really recommend his book that came out last year.

@@funkdoc94 I've read it. Its really good.

Like the squirrel I'm looking at in my backyard.

And his tie is not put on right

I laughed unreasonably hard at this comment.

Wtf 😂

Lmao!!

Lmao

And the tight shirts. Fuck that shirt is atrocious.

LOL

Good rookie season then each year was worse worse worse lol

one of the worst first overall picks ever... i will never forget how he mocked Canadian hockey and fans during the world juniors before the draft.. and great job Edmonton, a draft stacked full of top defencemen (which they desperately needed) and you draft an arrogant asshole of a forward who laughed at Canadian hockey

You’re right. It was a terrible choice. I think I heard the team wanted to take Murray but Katz told them to take the Forward(Yak). I like him in his first year but he was easy to figure out. After he first year I said “omg the Oilers could have a 50 goal scorer here” man was I wrong.

He was totally useless lol

Ahh man. Providence sucks bro 😎

Karen Monahan I read this as being in the last couple years and brad may just beat the shit out of a 16 year old, cool story nonetheless!

One of the better depth players in Canucks history. If it wasn't for Kevin Bieksa and Rick Rypien, he would stick out in my mind more as that type of personality that the Canucks need more of on their team today.

This is basically what I got out of that story. Tough guy: If I pull that off, will you die? Brad May: It would be extremely painful. Tough guy: You're a big guy! Brad May: For you!

When I started reading this story I was a young man... Filled with hope and dreams of a quick story to be read leisurely...

@@bontronblock If it took you that long to read the story, you are a little slow in the head. Sorry about that.

Huge thumbs up on Pat.. I met him several times.. Great guy and a true leader

If you’re an Oilers fan you’ll remember the “sight unseen, trust your scouting staff” thing when Peter Chiarelli traded for d-man Griffin Reinhart for a mid 1st round pick and a high 2nd round pick. How’d that work out? I’d have fired scout Bob Green for that but I believe he’s still employed by the Oilers? 🙄

Cause he's a pidgeon

LOilty thinking Bennett becoming better than Leon was more blasphemous than Nail busting, even with Nail busting wide open 😂🤣 Never thought of Burke as a hockey mastermind for one second

@@MM-tw7pu I wouldn't have Burke GM my fantasy team if he was paying me to do it. Ok I'd take the money but all his decisions would get veto'd.

Exactly, how do you not follow up on the interview almost turning into a fight.

@Jim Hammill How about listening to the other side first before making perhaps misleading conclusions? Yakupov's first season was actually pretty good. However, there was major coach change after his very first season but where... Yakupov wasn't really in the picture for the way the new coach saw his team would operate from then onwards. Thus, there were, for instance, cases where Yakupov was sat on the bench half-time but the very next day with coach approaching Yakupov and say "Hey, sorry, I first saw the mistake so decided to remove you from the game but apparently there were no mistakes at all so my bad". Thus, that's just one point to dispute your claims. Moreover, when Yakupov returned to SKA and SKA's coaches saw him within the team there was more involvement into the play so he did, indeed, had a great season after few years struggling to excel his game in NHL. Thus, all in all, perhaps, there were personal mistakes on his side as he was still quite young, not well versed in politics and stuff like that and.... was predomintanly getting used to North American culture. However, it doesn't change the fact that if someone started talking in the same boorish tione as Burke's talks to their interviewers in this interview, unless others wouldn't be as lackеy as as these bunch of yahoo's who completely ready to suck his cock, not sure if their attitude was any different from Yakupov's... Thus, the point I am trying to make is that if you were to listen to Yakupov's interview and hear his viewpoint is that up until you are in top of the league like, for instance, Ovechkin who's been with his team for years so has an enormous amount of respect, trust and that armour to protect himself from even these coach tricks that would not be allowed by Company owner's if they knew what's going on on a daily basis, the more newer and lesser experienced players, i.e. the more middle level player who are doing 80% of all work for the team to perform, are not really under that protection, especially, say in lower ranking teams as Edmonton at the time when Yakupov was there.. thus, there was no way for them not only to excel at large for themselves but to even to protect at a very minimum in order to play every single game staying in top optimal form and shape at the same time to be able to perform at a maximum abilities.

Less in some cases.. cough US administration cough.

Works for Don Cherry,.....er,....oops. Nevermind.

He's actually a nice dude, years ago we did a junk removal job for his daughter in Toronto and he was super friendly and gave me and my co-worker a $100 bill each.

Headcheese Smoothie Another Junker eh?

@@yoyoyo416 I litterally thought you were talking about a vasectomy

40 plus years of practice lol

lmaoooo

"looks like" lol

@@Aparadam It's so rare and unexpected that somebody owns up to a mistake that I'm deleting my last comment. You're alright.

@@bbb462cid Also deleted my comments. You showed a lot of class.

Yakupov was definitely the best

Chris yeah sonk

@@batt7945 SOOOOOONNNK!!!!!!!

You could argue Forsberg over Rielly maybe Vasilevskiy as well. Even as a Leaf fan I laughed when Burke said he had Rielly ranked #1 at the draft. But he turned out to be right.

@SupremePrestige 30-35 goals is average? Wow you're clueless.

Drafting Tyler Biggs was a genius move

How he maneuvered to get the sedins was prodigal!

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@@alcnassau it’s an idiom used by the teenage girls of Twitter

Worst drafting team ever haha

brett Smith ikr, just look at how draisaitl turned out lol

@@marclaventure441 I dont know draisatls a hard guy to judge. He plays most his minutes with mcdavid. But also a bad guy to bring up draft wise since he was 3rd. Look how nugent's turned out one of the lower 1st overall pics of all time. Not terrible but not 1st overall worthy either. The busts for the Oilers are quite a few. You remember Jani rita and how good he was supose to be probably not lol

@@marclaventure441 pulljujarvi great pick at 4rth! Haha

@@marclaventure441 magnus, pitlick, Jesse god damn ninimaki!

@Alexandros Nestoropoulos that's weird how you know so much about him and how hes feeling.

No Burke is a liberal lunatic.

Why because he supports gay rights, that makes him a liberal lunatic!? LOL, what a horse's ass comment to make. Jim, you have a great idea there. He would be awesome. Burke is still about tough hockey, which I am in full support of....liberal lunatic. Lmao

@@zalapski9399 stfu you clown

Zalapski that’s what always got Cherry in to hot water was always mixing hockey with politics!!!

@@Ihatecensorship1 I know 2 Maine Mariners that were teamates of Brian Burke and they both told he was far from a tough player. One of them is now a professional hockey scout and he bluntly told me ..that Brian Burke has pulled an amazing act. All he has to do is never smile and comes accross a tough guy...Those guys told me that once no team wanted him in the american league Burke became a player s agent....and all he did instead of sticking up for the players was to suck up to management. Burke was great at that and that s how he moved up the management ladder. He is an american and i wished that he would return to the states and make his living there . I gotta admit the bruins fans stil think he s a genius.

JFJ probably could have been an adequate GM. But as a rookie executive, places like Toronto and Montreal are bad news, especially back then. Ownership was controlling, the fans were ravenous and had high expectations with a demand for instant gratification. Ferguson got eaten alive in that city and dug his own grave with terrible personnel decisions and unwillingness to stand up to his bosses. Had he been brought along slowly in a quiet market, he might have turned out okay. But good lord did he screw the pooch in Toronto. And somehow, his successor was even worse. Bringing in Cliff Fletcher in a transparent attempt to capitalize on nostalgia was an abomination. The game passed him by 25 years ago. He blew up the team for a rebuild but forgot to get any young assets to go with it, leaving the Leafs with Matt Stajan as one of their top line players.

@@AprehamLincoln I remember watching the day JFJ got hired and I knew we were in for a dark age for Maple Leafs fans. It was painful to sit through but to be honest, Pat Quinn also made several mistakes as GM that cost the leafs a few chances to win.

@@AprehamLincoln dont forget the mlse was owned by the teachers union which cared more about making them money before Roger's/Bell bought them out as they realized the killing the can make selling tv subs, nhl tv app, essential bribes that I even took ( signed 3 year deal with Roger's got the s9+ for free plus 2 years of nhl tv for free and it's like 180cad for the year ) but now they got me watching there games and paying for other services. TML will always makes money but a good TML will break records which I'd say were on the right path just need a few tweaks

His dad ruined a lot then Edmonton ruined the rest

@@dontakeshit yakupov ruined himself

@@iiExiiLeD I think him going back to Russia instead of staying in the CHL before going to the NHL was a huge mistake. I also don't think the revolving door at coach for Edmonton helped him much

@@alex__2265 no definitely not but he also didn't work on defense. He had every chance go play with McDavid but his defensive play ruined him

He was trash and had a terrible attitude

You have to question your priorities

@Marvin Santana Hertl isn't bad, but I don't think he's Rielly. Rielly had 72 points as a defenceman his last full year and was fifth in Norris voting. I don't think Hertl has ever had a year like that. Rielly rivals Hertl in career points and he's a defenceman. He's also become much better defensively, playing a role Hertl isn't asked to.

I think thats true but in that draft...riley is better than the top 3 so I really believe they had riley number 1

not even a Leafs fan but Burkie totally said it on draft day. i remember laughing at him. he was absolutely right though.

I was skeptical when he said that back in 2012, but in hindsight it wasn't that farfetched.

"Cuff links," my friend.

gamacrit thank you for being nice about it!