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http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/01/18...ho-brian-burke

Don’t misinterpret Brian Burke’s relative silence for complacency.

Don’t mistake his low profile for inactivity, either.

Fact is, he’s ticked off, and he’s busy as hell, which makes for a highly combustible situation given how many times of late his faltering Calgary Flames have kept him up at night.

“I hate losing — that’s never going to change,” Burke told the Calgary Sun on Friday, ending nearly a month of silence.

“It’s not acceptable. We’re not getting the job done, and players know it’s not acceptable. The way it manifests itself is I don’t sleep. So I haven’t slept much.”

“But,” added Burke, the Flames president of hockey operations, “I’ve been through this before.”

Insisting he’s not interested in short-terms fixes, Burke reiterated Friday the coaching staff is not to blame for the club’s recent nosedive and is still safe for the rest of the season.

“The coaching staff isn’t going anywhere — I think they’re doing a fine job,” said Burke, sticking to his Dec. 12 promise made the day he fired GM Jay Feaster.

“We’re still having trouble scoring goals and keeping them out of our net. And we’re small. But there are two building blocks I see — that the work ethic matches or exceeds opponents’ and that we stay in the system.

“We’re doing both things. We can’t get to the next level without doing those two things first.”