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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Burke mostly has himself to blame for the treatment in Toronto. Sure it's not a friendly media environment but Burke came in there believing his own press clippings as the best GM in the league and it completely blew up in his face.
Burke was on the front lines of the reckoning that was the salary cap and the NHL's concerted effort to eliminate parts of the game that Burke held so dear. On the latter, he constructed teams that were totally unaligned with where the NHL was going. All this nonsense about truculence saw Burke building a team that would have been successful a decade earlier. Instead his teams were too slow and unskilled to compete. On the former, he traded away his most valuable assets, picks and cap flexibility, for pennies on the dollar.
In the end, Burke was exposed as a GM from another era that couldn't grow with the times. His record in Toronto speaks for itself as does his record as head of Hockey USA. And he got a rough ride in the media for it. Personality wise he wears a lot of that. He was loathed by the time he left Vancouver too. It just happens he finds himself in Calgary with a regimen of supplicants feeding off Ken King's good graces as a media boss that he thinks that Calgary is normal.
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Right... just like it was the fault of Phil Kessel, Randy Carlisle, Larry Murphy & a litany other players Toronto media has run out of town on a rail.
So... Anaheim didn’t win the cup in 2007? The core of Burke’s Vancouver team didn’t go to the final in 2011? A large part of Burke’s Toronto team isn’t around?
Please get your facts straight and away of your obvious detest of Burke. Hate him if you want but bring some evidence to support your argument please.