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Originally Posted by transplant99
If he was fired because he was going to make a deal for Luongo....then the leafs are in more trouble than anyone would have believed.
That means non hockey guys are making hockey decisions...and i can point to numerous examples how that always ends in nothing short of failure and often times in catastrophe for the orginization.
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I agree. Perhaps the longevity of Luongo's contract was beyond what ownership was comfortable with and they canned him because Burke stared them down ("I'm going to acquire Luongo, or you're going to have to fire me.")?
Edit: Actually, maybe it was the other way around - "I don't want Luongo - the price is too high and the contract too long. If you want him, you're going to have to fire me." - With Nonis in the wings and his history with Luongo in Vancouver, maybe that's how it played out?