Confirmed with Link: Habs Relieve Stephane Waite of his duties, Sean Burke Named Director of Goaltending

[Treb]

Wasn't Burke who kept getting Arizona goalies good.

He was goalie coach when Mike smith had his revival. Same with Dubnyk.

 

[Max2]

Is it possible that he is being hired as goalie director in order to keep him in the organization and be in line to replace Bergevin sooner rather than later? Maybe Molson had a hand in this and Burke seems like very intelligent individual and French can be learned.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

Is it possible that he is being hired as goalie director in order to keep him in the organization and be in line to replace Bergevin sooner rather than later? Maybe Molson had a hand in this and Burke seems like very intelligent individual and French can be learned.

Wanna watch this Board really go batshyte??...hire an Anglo GM who doesn't speak French...

 

[Flyinghab]

Maybe MB came to Price asking him to waive his NMC and he said no. So MB fired his friend, mentor and coach. Just a thought!

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

It's called "I Think You Should Leave"

https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80986854?preventIntent=true

Thanks.

 

[Runner77]

Habs Relieve Stephane Waite of his duties, Sean Burke Named Director of Goaltending

 

[Habs]

Everyone has taken the fall, but Bergevin .. lol

Wait, the janitorial staff may still be around from a few years ago, better get rid of them too?

 

[Hullois]

Seems like there's two opinions here.. either Price got someone else's head, or management wanted to send him a message.

I think Price asked for this.

 

[MasterD]

Hmmmm, weird. I felt like Waite played a key role in a lot of goalies' success in MTL. Someone will hire him.

No, they were all sh*t outside or Price and now Allen

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

This entire thing is a little weird, no? When is the last time the Habs announced a firing at 11:15 pm? They couldn't wait till morning?

I remember the habs announcing the pacioretty trade past 1 am

 

[Draft]

No, they were all sh*t outside or Price and now Allen

I think a lot of them played better than they had any right to. Condon, Niemi, and Lindgren especially.

 

[George Lebay]

 

[David Suzuki]

I remember the habs announcing the pacioretty trade past 1 am

I was just about to go to bed saw the trade and assumed it was fake it was such a good return lol

 

[Draft]

Wanna watch this Board really go batshyte??...hire an Anglo GM who doesn't speak French...

This board? No, I think you'd have a very hard time finding more than a couple of posters that would be worried about it. It's an Anglophone board that regularly bemoans the role of language in essentially every aspect of the team, management, media, etc. Outside of this board? Yeah, there'd be a lot of complaining in the media and in the province.

 

[Belial]

Would be hilarious if Price goes on a Vezina run after this.

 

[Theodore450]

Call me crazy but when Waite came in everyone was thrilled because Price took another step. Since then he's been off for many many years. On and off, regression, etc..

Why should Waite be treated like anything special?

A new opinion was needed.

This is the only thing you should think

 

[Runner77]

Hard to believe that gif is from 7 years ago, when poster Ice Poutine, brilliantly turned it into this:

Looking like Pricer got that knife into his back, intentionally or not, knowingly or not.

 

[Belial]

Wouldn't you wait until the new goalie coach goes through his quarantine first?
This was not premeditated. Burke would have arrived sooner. Something did happen.

But why do it when you won't have a goalie coach for 2 weeks? Why not bring Burke in Canada earlier?

Something was brewing.

I'm guessing Richardson is next.

Clearly, the decision was made today IMO.

Something happened behind the scenes, maybe a clash of opinions between Dom and Waite, and Bergevin supported his new head coach by firing Waite...

If the decision to fire Waite was something on Bergevin's table for a while Burke would've been already around the team to avoid the whole quarantine thing.

 

[phillytennis]

Everyone has taken the fall, but Bergevin .. lol

Wait, the janitorial staff may still be around from a few years ago, better get rid of them too?

Hey... it isn't Bergevin's job to stop the puck, to cover opposing players near our net, and even score goals.

 

[Guess]

Dom didn’t like him ......

Source? Or you just guessing.

 

[phillytennis]

Burke should be a GM, this is so weird.

Ridiculous.... let's start some stupid conspiracy theory.

 

[phillytennis]

Fair enough. But why wait. Why have Carey continue to work with Waite? Then Carey gets a win and you still fire him...lol! Very strange times.

Simple...the decision was already made prior to the game.

 

[MasterD]

Wanna watch this Board really go batshyte??...hire an Anglo GM who doesn't speak French...

No. This is an english speaking board, after all.

When Cunneyworth was hired this place was mostly alright. Its the idiots In the french media and places like the rds forums that went batshit crazy.

 

[Flyinghab]

Simple...the decision was already made prior to the game.

Then why not just do it when they fired Claude and Muller? At the very least till Burke is finished his quarantine, doing it now after a much needed win is only going to piss Carey off. Who knows maybe Carey approved it but I highly doubt it. Waite at least has a resume behind him, how the hell does Richardson dodge getting fired. The D has been just as bad as Carey this year.

 

[Paddyjack]

Then why not just do it when they fired Claude and Muller? At the very least till Burke is finished his quarantine, doing it now after a much needed win is only going to piss Carey off. Who knows maybe Carey approved it but I highly doubt it. Waite at least has a resume behind him, how the hell does Richardson dodge getting fired. The D has been just as bad as Carey this year.

I'm pretty sure they kept him just because they had no one else available. I mean, they even brought Burrows as an assistant, which to me was not impressive. Too green.