"He didn't become terminally stupid overnight": Brian Burke defends Peter Chiarelli

Burke also says of new GM: “They need a guy with experience, brains and balls.”
This in from provocative Sportsnet commentator Brian Burke, his assessment and partial defence of his good friend, former Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli, spoken just after Chiarelli was canned.
“He didn’t become terminally stupid overnight,” Burke said of Chiarelli. “But the fan reaction to this was white hot and there would have been a mob outside the building tonight.&rd