Ferguson fond of team's future core

Of all the endless talk that clouded the airwaves yesterday, on the holy day that is the NHL trade deadline, one sentence stood out. It wasn't easy, given the television, radio and water-cooler chatter across Canada, to cut to the chase. But that's what Brian Burke, the bluntest man in hockey not named Sutter, did.

"We all add," Burke, Anaheim's general manager, told TSN, "and there's one parade."

The Maple Leafs are one of the teams that added, if modestly, with faceoff specialist and two-time Leaf Yanic Perreault. But there's one parade, and it probably isn't happening here. What is happening is mediocrity, on the fly.

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