01-09-2013, 10:51 AM
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#61
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Djibouti
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I just pray he doesn't end up landing a regular job with TSN or HNIC.
Don't ruin hockey for me when it's just come back.
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01-09-2013, 10:53 AM
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#62
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike F
I just pray he doesn't end up landing a regular job with TSN or HNIC.
Don't ruin hockey for me when it's just come back.
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Haha, imagine a Burke & Cherry show? 
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01-09-2013, 10:54 AM
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#63
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Sounds like Burke did NOT want to make Luongo deal, while many in Leafs org did. Burke a principled man.
https://twitter.com/SportsnetSpec
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01-09-2013, 10:54 AM
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#64
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Lifetime Suspension
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Makes sense. New owners for a new season. Bring someone in under a completely new CBA regime to clean up his mess.
Most likely they had a hockey related disagreement on a trade for Luongo and ownership recognized it as a sign of things to come.
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01-09-2013, 10:55 AM
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#65
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Ownership in Toronto basically has its fingers in the pot at all times. Maybe Burke had some leeway at the beginning of his time in Toronto, but if any GM is going to butt heads with ownership to such a degree they would be fired, it'd probably be Burke.
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Except that the Leafs got new owners last year.
I suspect this is Bell and Rogers doing. They probably want to outsource the position to India and Burke wasn't interested in moving.
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01-09-2013, 10:56 AM
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#66
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Nonis is better than Burke anyways.
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01-09-2013, 10:56 AM
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#67
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Originally Posted by jschick88
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If this is true
Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic
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01-09-2013, 10:56 AM
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#68
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Ugh if what I've heard is true then this is ugly. Sounds like it could be personal misconduct
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01-09-2013, 10:56 AM
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#69
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary, AB
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New ownership group combined with what is likely a disagreement on trading for Luongo. Burke wants nothing to do with that contract while management thinks they can win with him in net.
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01-09-2013, 10:56 AM
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#70
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: City by the Bay
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flash Walken
What are Burke's 3 best trades?
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Apparently, Burke's made 40 (!) trades since becoming the Leafs GM http://www.nhltradetracker.com/user/..._Maple_Leafs/1
1. Phaneuf et al for Stajan et al (w/ Flames)
2. Gardiner, Lupul et al for Beachemin (w/ Ducks)
3. Acquiring Primeau's contract and a 2nd for Stralman, Stuart and a 7th (Flames)
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01-09-2013, 10:56 AM
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#71
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Lifetime Suspension
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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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See: Flames, Calgary
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01-09-2013, 10:56 AM
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#72
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This had been said dozens of times already but wow that was out of the blue.
He won't be out of a job for long.
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01-09-2013, 10:57 AM
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#73
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Originally Posted by kyuss275
The bolded part is probably why he got fired. Ownership might have felt that Burke would have added to much payroll ( Loungo), made foolish trades that would help the present and screw the future just to keep his job.
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I wrote the above a couple of minutes ago but now i have a feeling it will have nothing to do with this. My bet is it will be about a non hockey issue. Not sure what or if we will ever find out the full truth.
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01-09-2013, 10:58 AM
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#74
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The aftermath will be amusing.
Scribbled with the Note II
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01-09-2013, 10:58 AM
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#75
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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
Apparently, Burke's made 40 (!) trades since becoming the Leafs GM http://www.nhltradetracker.com/user/..._Maple_Leafs/1
1. Phaneuf et al for Stajan et al (w/ Flames)
2. Gardiner, Lupul et al for Beachemin (w/ Ducks)
3. Acquiring Primeau's contract and a 2nd for Stralman, Stuart and a 7th (Flames)
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Gradiner and Lupul was by far his best trade. Still doesn't make up for the Kessel debacle and him blowing his gigantic load in his first free agency season signing truculent idiots forever weighting the team down.
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01-09-2013, 10:58 AM
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#76
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Another opportunity to laugh at the Leafs?
Yup, hockey is back.
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01-09-2013, 10:58 AM
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#77
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: City by the Bay
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Quote:
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?
Last edited by Clever_Iggy; 01-09-2013 at 11:02 AM.
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01-09-2013, 10:58 AM
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#78
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iginla
This had been said dozens of times already but wow that was out of the blue.
He won't be out of a job for long.
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Pun intended?
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01-09-2013, 10:58 AM
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#79
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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I wonder if it has to do with tampering?
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01-09-2013, 10:58 AM
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#80
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: blow me
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Quote:
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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Quote:
Originally Posted by jschick88
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Yikes. Sounds like someone else wants to call the shots.
I'm looking forward to the details.
I hope (and I know he will) he lands on his feet.
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