I never really got how people thought there was any basis whatsoever that Burke has a vendetta against the Canucks. What do people base this on?
Tampering on 2 occasions.
Leaked a trade offer that was made by the Vancouver Canucks to the Tampa bay lighting for the second pick in 2009. The leak was done on leafs t.v. Mike gillis filed tampering against the leafs, eventually dropping it, knowing mike gillis already embarrassed the crap out of the ******** Brian Burke. ( and also they are both fellow gms, don't want too much drama)
Btw the offer was burrows, bieksa and the 23rd pick for the second overall pick.
Mike gillis also accused brian Burke of tampering, when at the time Ron Wilson mistakenly slipped the wrong words during an interview in late June that the leafs were In process of getting the sedins.
brian Burke was apparently in Sweden before July 1st, there was some trail work pointing that Burke was somehow in contact with the twins prior to July 1st. After the accusations, Burke said he was in Sweden to sign Jonas Gustafson. (Which is odd because all gms are usually in their office on July 1st, for obvious reasons.)
Brian Burke also blasted the Canucks for not getting an invitation to lindens number retiring night, and he was quite confused why, and this is after the 2 tampering attempts, and him also saying "I'm not a fan of the aqullini's"
Burke is a clown, he met his match in mike gillis, who is also another gm, that is actually also a lawyer himself.
I miss mike gillis. A lot of dead beat American teams will keep their gm after missing the playoffs. We only gave gillis one chance and to be honest I don't think that's fair.