The team stats for Anaheim seem to imply that there's a lack of scoring on that team, but I think in reality there's more than a bunch of capable players on that team that can put the puck in the net (Perry, Getzlaf, Kunitz, Selanne, Weight, Bertuzzi, etc.), and given what he makes and what they make, you're going to sit a guy like Bochenski before you sit any of them.
I would bet that more accurately he was traded because he doesn't bring that hard-hitting aspect of the game that Burke likes so much (which I guess means Selanne gets the only pass in that respect). He's not a defensive forward, so he's got no value there. So, he's expendable.
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