This is great news, it just shames me my fellow leaf fans, who have grown to settle with mediocrity and frivolous matters reinforced by the media (i.e nonsense about timing, business acumen, media relations, etc) rather than see the firing for what it is, and what we, as hockey fans care about- Winning/Results. Burke has been horrendous in his tenure here, 4 terrible seasons and a lackluster product/farm system to boot. In fact, he's been so incompetent I'd argue he's had a severe net loss in growth versus an expected and projected, linear growth- obviously, there was no way to go but up in his tenure here.
I'm not sure why everyone is concerning themselves with hypotheticals, like timing of the firing spewed by the media. At the end of the day, the only relevant matter we can objectively, and non-speculatively discuss is Burke's professional tenure here- and it's been terrible at that. Having the media and Burke apologetic like Bob Mackenzie- and the narrative they instill has blinded the "sheep" in our fan-base from reality.
If anything (and here's my theory, littered with hypothetical nonsense to fit my "narrative"), we should be happy that Rogers and Bell taking over is treating this team like a business/product- and that mediocrity or failure is not passable. See James Dolan and MSG, and the knicks now, owners like Cuban in Dallas, George Steinbrenner, and independent owners all over baseball. If one wants to win, there will be no boundary when you are one of the richest, if not, the richest owner in pro sports. And at the end of the day, to maximize profit with the existing model where a media giant, owns the arena and team- money signs roll with prosperity and/or a winning product. Of course, a purely hypothetical theory- but this just proves the point I am trying to make. I can spin the narrative in any favour I want to reinforce my beliefs of the future of this team- rather than take at face value what matters, RESULTS.
