It occurred to me this morning -- maybe the Toronto Maple Leafs are Brian Burke's expression of genius. Maybe, just maybe... Burke is trying to tank his way into a decent draft pick.I mean, what else could seriously be the goal here? He's made no bones about wanting tough players... who may be tough, but they sure can't play NHL-caliber hockey. He's kept around Toskala, who's play certainly isn't up to redeeming the failures of the rest of the team.
The entire team is untradable now.
Think about it.
Brian Burke is a frickin' genius.
(Previously.)
UPDATE: The only problem with this theory is the fact that Toronto no longer has a first round pick in 2010:
The Toronto Maple Leafs' first-round pick will go to the Boston Bruins as the result of a trade on September 18, 2009 that sent this pick along with a second-round pick in 2010 and a first-round pick in 2011 to Boston in exchange for Phil Kessel.So I really don't know what's going on in Toronto. Could you really make a worse hockey team if you tried?
