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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Having said that, this whole thing has gotten ridiculous. It is bewildering to me that people are taking offence to this, let alone turning it into full blown front-page material.
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It's only because it involves Brian Burke, and that the Toronto media still has a vendetta against him for how he dealt with some of the media there. If it had involved anyone else it would not have been widely reported; heck other guys said bad things about him, and yet only Burke is getting slammed for his words. Do you think anyone will bring up the fact that Burke was Ryan's biggest defender or that in the end he wanted him on the team? Of course not, since they don't want to calm the situation down. They're going to continue pushing the intensity quote, but nothing else just to continue generating buzz.
Also doesn't help that it involves a guy in a Canadian market. If Ryan was playing in some sleepy southern NHL team it wouldn't have been given close to this much coverage.