Burke still a man with a plan

The Ducks' former GM believes his Leafs will succeed, despite their worst-ever start. ANAHEIM – Brian Burke left Toronto this week — or escaped if you look at it another way — to revisit some old stomping grounds and remember what it was like when his teams won. Two years after winning the Stanley Cup with the Ducks on a champagne-soaked June night at a boisterous Honda Center, the Toronto Maple Leafs president and general manager is back with the NHL's only winless team. Burke looked on in Vancouver — a place he spent six years lifting the Canucks out of mediocrity — as the Leafs fell to 0-7-1 Saturday night with a loss to the Canucks. It is the worst start in the 92-year history of a tradition-rich franchise. Tonight he'll witness his desperate Leafs against his former team with that 2007 Stanley Cup banner in plain view.... [read full story]                    

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