Public apology from Leafs brass

[Senser81]

Does Harold Ballard still own the Leafs?

 

[Ravin]

I watched the Burke presser, and a lot of stuff jumped out. You can see he is pissed off, and not happy, and being in Toronto makes it no easier. I do find it funny how Burke just shoots down other GM's or teams with no issue. He said it about Florida that "we'll have to wait and see on them" and thinks they are one of those teams that just got thrown together, no direction, and will be one and done in the playoffs and no better off.

I also still kind of laugh at how off the wall he went on the "Pittsburgh method" of doing things. I won't say they didn't get lucky as balls in getting Crosby, because if the NHL would have played the year of the lockout, Malkin would have been on the Pens and that could have changed the team, and not made them last. But if you look at the Pens, they drafted Fluery (1st), Malkin (2nd), Crosby (1st), Staal (2nd) four years in a row. So who knows what happens, if they even get Crosby and Staal if that lockout doesn't happen. But Burke makes a good point that he can't just say "ok rebuild #2, you guys don't mind waiting another three years right?"

That #5 pick is going to be very valuable to the team this year, and they need to keep it, or move up in the draft. As it is right now I'd have them taking Galchenyuk, but I could see burke doing something weird here.