You and I wanted this team "
Blown Up" coming out of the 2004 lockout as we could already see this coming down the pipeline without a reset button push entering a Cap World. Don't make me search the archives for 100's of your previous posts suggesting it. I will you know.
MLSE said "No" to JFJ at the time so that is on past Ownership. However as we found out later the Teachers pension plan was secretly trying to unload the Leafs so they wanted it to remain competitive despite an aging & costly roster with limited future ahead. Winning is more profitable than tanking and rebuilding when it comes to selling an asset off to the highest bidder.
After the Bell/Rogers purchase was made official it was clear the agenda of the OTPP to avoid hitting the reset button prior to sale.
However when Burke blew into town telling the former BOG that JFJ was wrong and a reset (draft rebuild) wasn't needed and a quick retooling on the fly by him would get them their winning results quickly, the teachers bought it hook, line and sinker as it was music to their financial $$$ ears.
Bell and Rogers having full control quickly ushered Burke out the door before he could do any more damage to their team, and spend even a minute on the team post 2nd lockout on his slap happy impatient retooling taking us to this current state of team affairs.
Too bad hitting the reset button today couldn't magically take the Leafs back in time to Nov 2008 and we can erase the past 6 years of embarrassment and disappointment of failure and none playoffs. Allowing the Leafs to begin the rebuild again at the source of the mistake.