Confirmed with Link: Dave Nonis TML GM|Burke retained as Senior Advisor to board - III
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A1LeafNation
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Everytime he posts some insider information about the details of the dressing room over the years, it seems like he was lying when the truth comes out.
Even if it is true I really don't trust him, regardless.
Even if it is true I really don't trust him, regardless.
I think he meant that he is going to do his research before making a trade/signing, and he also meant he won't make a trade because fans/media are panicking.
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firstemperor
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Not a huge fan of Nonis but it baffles me how leaf fans on this board are defending Burke. Just like the majority here defended the Kessel trade years back. The guy has been horrendous in his tenure here and is as stubborn as they come. He's had 4 terrible seasons and has no prospect turnover to show for it besides Gardiner, where he had to absorb a guy who many thought was on the verge of retirement. No results. No open-mindedness. Terrible with the media and public relations. One positive? He is a strong advocate for the gay community. In terms of his actual professional tenure here, he's been horrendous.
Good on the new management at MLSE making this move earlier rather than later- see Colangelo with the raptors. You know the saying, if it walks like a duck..
Good on the new management at MLSE making this move earlier rather than later- see Colangelo with the raptors. You know the saying, if it walks like a duck..
Maybe it was kept in secret? Brian Burke probably knew about it too?
Brian Burke has done a lot of work in helping solve this lockout problems...so clearly firing him then would not have been a smart move by the Leafs.
Leaf Rocket
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as i said moments ago...which seems to have moved away...i hated berger quite a bit but I focus mostly only simmons now as berger seems to at least have some knowledge.
Bigleaf
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This is the problem many of us have. This new ownership has been in place 6 months so it appears they are making this move later rather than earlier. Why didn't they fire him months ago? Why wait until the day the owners are ratifying the new CBA, a couple of days before camp?
DD03
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CBC has had the same problem with Don Cherry for years. Luckily for Bell / Rogers, the Leafs have Burke haters.. Not every one is upset.
Everyone just wants a piece of the cake IMO.
Nobody had any sources before it happened today.
I highly HIGHLY doubt Dave Hodge knew anything about this if even Bob McKenzie said this is the most shocking thing that he's witnessed.
Polk High
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Exactly. Everyone has sources after it happens. No one before it.
This one came out of left field...Burke might have known it for a while but I doubt any "source" knew of this...otherwise that person would want to break it somehow and gain fame.
charliolemieux
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I do everything in my power to avoid Simmons but he certainly wasn't the only one in the MSM floating these issues about things happening in his personal life.
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Also it's a libelous statement and infractable. Lee is a much nicer guy than the rest of us.
Leaf Rocket
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Leaf Rocket
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Also it's a libelous statement and infractable. Lee is a much nicer guy than the rest of us.
Yeap, he's the good cop we are the bad cop.
Sorry for that one Lee! My bad for not remember...tough day =_=
Also it's a libelous statement and infractable. Lee is a much nicer guy than the rest of us.
I've been away for a while. Let me warm up
Yeap, he's the good cop we are the bad cop.
Sorry for that one Lee! My bad for not remember...tough day =_=
Is ok!
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Have details on how and why on Burke firing for early tomorrow... check paper or our site in morning.
Have details on how and why on Burke firing for early tomorrow... check paper or our site in morning.
firstemperor
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Asking hypotheticals is a form of you trying to rationalize a firing you don't inherently agree with to fit your narrative. It doesn't change the existence of Burke's tenure here. Similarly, I can do the same thing as you in a contradictory context- Why didn't they fire him and wait until the end of the season? Because he would be a lame-duck GM. Why would they not fire him before the CBA? Perhaps the answer is the exactly the CBA itself, they didn't want to fire him if some uncertainty arised with it, who knows. The point is, this is all speculative and hyothetical, what's the point in concerning ourselves with this petty nonsense when the tenure and results should be the one objective and absolute thing we, as fans, can point to? Leaf fans have some sort if an inferiority complex of sorts (I don't blame them, Leafs have sucked for so long), in which they have to justify everything.
This should be Christmas morning for me and you, instead people are arguing about the firing being unjust with a guy who's had nothing short of a horrendous, net-loss tenure over his four years. It's like leaf fans have been brainwashed into accepting mediocrity.
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