


Mario Lemieux
Hanging Hopes On Pronger

Unlike most men who run NHL teams, Brian Burke doesn't major in pitching trades and minor in pitching wedges. He hates golf. Blessed with a Harvard law degree and cursed by an obsession to work until he drops, the Whalers general manager thinks golf is a waste of valuable time. He thinks it's boring. And, heaven forbid, there's no body contact unless somebody is battling for a brew on the 19th hole. But one day after the PGA's Deane Beman and the Canon Greater Hartford Open drove the 1994 NHL draft out of Hartford, Burke, built like John Daly, pulled the monster driver out of his bag and took his best whack at stealing the 1993 NHL draft. Did he pull it off? You...