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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
What do you mean? You can't fire a GM for not making plans on making a trade? You do know the Leafs and Canucks have talked over the past year and that Leafs owners probably wanted Burke to put together a proposal and he likely disagreed. Not sure where you would come up with tampering as the way the Leafs choose to run their organizaiton has nothing to do wit collusion or tampering.
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What I'm saying is that, if the leafs and canucks had a deal in principle done during the height of the lockout, and Burke didn't want to do the deal (that couldn't be done).
The leafs obviously cannot fire a guy for not doing a trade that can't be done, HOWEVER, if they go ahead and fire burke in the middle of the lockout for being insubordinate, it's difficult to do that without drawing eyes to the potential collusionary or tampering charges.
For instance, you ditch burke in the middle of the lockout and legions of under worked sports reporters with editors to satisfy start digging into why.