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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Burke is flat out wrong. Toronto media don’t want their sport teams to fail, that city is starving for a winner of any kind. Just look at the Jays, they are beloved in that city. Burke just has a hard time taking any kind of criticism and loathes having his methods questioned.
This is the same guy who traded a 1st, 2nd and a 3rd just to move up a couple spots so he could draft a barely servicable defensive defenseman while missing out on a boatload of incredible defensemen including a generational talen in Erik Karlsson. He also didn’t trade Mike Cammalleri because of his pride and stubbornness or how about that draft pick we spent on one Lane MacDermid to add truculence only to have him retire from the sport a few months later. Maybe it’s just Burke making questionable moves that gets him into trouble with the media. As tough as he is, the man takes criticism poorly and that’s a character trait you must have in abundance as a gm in the NHL or in any other sport for that matter.
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I think you're confused. The fans and the city want a winner the media want to sell papers and get clicks and what sells that more than negativity? That's mostly what the news is now-a-days, people don't want to hear about how the team made a minor league move that will help them long term, they want something they can relate to, they want to complain they want controversy, they want entertainment and unfortunately negative press creates more of a buzz. So at the end of the day, if you ask any major news outlet what they'd prefer between making money and their local sports team winning, it'll be the money.