"All I've seen so far is flashes of brilliance, [which] are fine if you're working in a university but they're not much good to people in an NHL building," Burke said Sept. 30. "There are three zones on the ice surface in this league. I don't see that he's learned to compete in two of them. I see this guy right now who's focusing on one area - and, even then, sporadically. So, I don't know what we have. I'm not ready to quit on the young kid . . . but I think you can tell from my comments that I see big holes and a lack of commitment that's not going to get him anywhere in my books."