NHL News: Brendan Burke, son of Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke killed in car crash

very sad, send out best wishes to the burke and reddy families as they go through this tragic loss.

This is just terrible. Judging from how gracefully he handled the situation with his son came out as gay a few months ago, Brian was a very caing father, and this is just the worst. Really sorry to hear this.

typo – mean’t “caring” father, obviously.

But Jesus Christ. This is absolutely horrible. No body deserves this, especially a family like the Burkes’. Everyone just take this into perspective and just realize sport from real life. My prayers go out to the Burke family.

i’m sure i join everyone on here in sending my best wishes and positive thoughts to the burke family as they recover from this horrible tragedy.

dAj

This is horrible, no one deserves to bury their own child. At this point words can’t describe anything as to how tragic such an event is. I just wish and hope everything turns out alright for the Burke family.

Very sad.

Sometimes I think the general statements passed out are getting a bit old. A girl died at the local school the other day and the principal spoke as if he never even knew the girl saying something along the lines of “We are saddened by the death of a wonderful person.”

Next, a teacher came on and gave this beautiful speech about how great of a person she was and in times of trouble this should not be happening that one of the few good people out there is taken away. He listed specific instances where she was in inspiration, it was very moving.

Maybe they didn’t know Brendan, but I wish the statements would start to be more insightful and caring than just a “thoughts and prayers with the family”