A brief rant on the state of the Brian Burke era

[Irishjim]

DOWN GOES BROWN

HOCKEY HUMOR AND/OR HUMOUR.

There's been an ongoing conversation on Twitter today about the state of Brian Burke's Maple Leafs. I tried to post a short series of tweets on the topic, but Twitter decided that it wouldn't post them all for some reason. So I'm reposting them here. Back to the usual content tomorrow morning.

(begin rant)

If I could build a time machine and go back to interrupt Brian Burke's introductory press conference bearing news from the future and explained that in almost four years, the Leafs would have:

a.) No playoff appearances;

b.) Four bottom-ten years;

c.) Two bottom-five years;

d.) A 2012 team that was cap-maxed AND worse than JFJ's rock bottom in terms of points;

e.) an above-average farm system (maybe) with no elite prospects...

No Leaf fan would have called that acceptable.

Not one. Twist it however you want, but you would have called that a disaster. And you'd be right.

(Drops mic. Stares at confused audience. Sighs heavily, and goes back to making "Roberto Luongo is a choker" jokes.)