01-09-2013, 10:36 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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If this is true he will have another job........quickly.
He may come across like a jerk in most interviews but its refreshing to see Gm's who speak their mind and aren't always trying to appease the media.
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01-09-2013, 10:36 AM
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#22
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Franchise Player
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Is Nonis taking over or is he gone also?
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01-09-2013, 10:36 AM
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#23
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Makes zero sense to fire him now. Why now?
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01-09-2013, 10:37 AM
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#24
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Peterborough, ON
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Something bizarre must have happened, otherwise why would he have kept his job over the summer until just before the season starts?
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01-09-2013, 10:37 AM
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#25
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All I can get
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Thoughts and prayers to the Tubby McBlowhard family. Thoughts and prayers.
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01-09-2013, 10:37 AM
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#26
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Maybe Brian is replacing Bettman?
Last edited by troutman; 01-09-2013 at 10:39 AM.
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01-09-2013, 10:37 AM
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#27
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First Line Centre
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Is this confirmed... or just another case of twitter accounts tricking people into thinking it's reliable news?
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01-09-2013, 10:38 AM
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#28
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Holy wow. What a weird timing for a firing. All the buzz was that he had to get the leafs into the playoffs this year to have a chance at keeping the job.
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01-09-2013, 10:38 AM
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#29
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: City by the Bay
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TSXCman
Is this confirmed... or just another case of twitter accounts tricking people into thinking it's reliable news?
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On TSN.ca's front page.
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01-09-2013, 10:39 AM
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#30
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by transplant99
strangest timing of a firing....maybe ever.
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Didn't someone get fired on December 23rd once?
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01-09-2013, 10:39 AM
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#31
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TSXCman
Is this confirmed... or just another case of twitter accounts tricking people into thinking it's reliable news?
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I don't think it broke on twitter this time
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01-09-2013, 10:39 AM
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#32
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary
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See what happened here was, Burke got real close to building a wining team and the leafs can't have any of that nonsense......pffftt......winning team....
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01-09-2013, 10:40 AM
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#33
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Jordan!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Weird timing for sure.
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01-09-2013, 10:41 AM
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#34
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AR_Six
...He won't be unemployed long I would imagine.
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He won't be nearly as high in demand as he was when the Leafs were targeting him. His time in Toronto has badly tarnished his misappropriated reputation as the League's top GM.
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01-09-2013, 10:41 AM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan
Didn't someone get fired on December 23rd once?
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Which still isnt as strange as firing a guy a week before the season begins whilst paying him the last 4 months of a lockout and allowing him to run the most recent draft.
Baffling timing.
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01-09-2013, 10:42 AM
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#36
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Seem like it is now confirmed.
Im Shocked
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01-09-2013, 10:43 AM
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#37
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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I'm with tranny, just a really strange time to can him. They must have someone lined up to take over today or tomorrow.
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01-09-2013, 10:43 AM
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#38
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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I'm guessing it has something to do with a trade with one party not wanting it to be done, or the direction the team is taking, or a combination of the two. I could see Burke being an ass and telling them to fire him before he'll do a certain move.
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01-09-2013, 10:44 AM
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#39
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Calgary
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Was it possibly to stop him from trading for Loungo? Could it be that the owners didn't want to pay Bobby Lou until the end of time?
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01-09-2013, 10:44 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Textcritic
He won't be nearly as high in demand as he was when the Leafs were targeting him. His time in Toronto has badly tarnished his misappropriated reputation as the League's top GM.
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That was my thinking too. He didn't do much in Vancouver, and he won in Anaheim because of the work of his predecessor. Toronto was his baby from the start, and it has been a massive failure.
He's got name potential, however, so somebody is going to hire him, probably late in this season or in the summer.
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