Brian Burke fired

**Cross Traffic** · January 9th, 2013, 10:49 AM

What a joke that team is. Nonis looks so excited to be there. #Backstabber.

**jammer06** · January 9th, 2013, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by nki

Burke will stay as a senior adviser, Nonis the new GM.

Just saw that, for leaf's fan's they've gotta be thinking

**LOSTcauseZERO** · January 9th, 2013, 11:13 AM

The Leafs are a joke. haha I guess that's not new news though.

**jom** · January 9th, 2013, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by nki

Must be more behind this than the usual Maple Leafs incompetence right?

Why should there be? Sounds typical Maple Leafs to me...

jom

**Pucker25** · January 9th, 2013, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by nki

Burke will stay as a senior adviser, Nonis the new GM.

That just means he has a contract they have to pay out, so might as well make use of him in some capacity until someone calls to get permission to hire him...

**orpheus** · January 9th, 2013, 12:23 PM

**Birdman** · January 9th, 2013, 12:39 PM

If this is true, then he's high as a kite and should have been fired:

Originally Posted by Pagnotta

Last season, Burke turned down trading Grabovski to Chicago for a 1st & prospect, and rejected a 1st RD pick for MacArthur from another team

https://twitter.com/TheFourthPeriod

**jom** · January 9th, 2013, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Birdman

If this is true, then he's high as a kite and should have been fired:

https://twitter.com/TheFourthPeriod

While I agree on the surface, that would NOT be what BB set out to do. From the get-go he laid out a plan to re-build the Leafs and he was doing just that. If the upper management didn't like they way he did things they should have dumped him last July. While I don't agree with BB's methods at all he WAS doing what he said he'd do.

BTW, on that note, if Burke was "high" for not taking that deal then clearly Bowman in Chicago must be sharing the same drugs for even offering such a stupid trade.

Having said that BB really belongs working for the league. I've never felt he was good at building teams (he got lucky in Anaheim if you ask me) but I think he has great ideas for the game...such as his contributions to the present CBA etc etc.

jom

**FishMonger** · January 9th, 2013, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by Birdman

If this is true, then he's high as a kite and should have been fired:

https://twitter.com/TheFourthPeriod

The Isles/BJs offer was still much worse.

Science has yet to discover what both of those guys were on...

**Birdman** · January 9th, 2013, 05:48 PM

I watched the TSN segment with Duthie/Johnson/Dreger and Bobby Mac, and they all summed up that the "Penguin Way" (Sucking for 4 years) like the route the Oilers have gone is totally the way to go, and ensinuated that wasn't Burke's style, that he was more of a closer and not a builder, which I totally agree with.

I think the new trend in the NHL is going to be to blow it up, a la the Pens/Hawks/Kings/Oilers, and that way you create a window of opportunity where you can compete.

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