He's the founder. Without him, YCP doesn't exist. What he said was certainly clueless and lacking in awareness, but his Burke-i-ness is a lot of what allowed YCP to get off of the ground and get traction among actual NHLers and actual NHL staff. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. I don't think he's that heavily involved with the day-to-day running of the organization now, anyway. But he still does have an important role of being the guy who can call up players or front office guys and talk to them about their tweets and who they will listen to.

What hockey really needs is a guy like Brian Burke who can call up Brian Burke and John Tortorella and tell them when they are being idiots about race-related matters.