...I don't need batteries.Hockey Widow wrote:Are batteries provided?BurningBeard wrote: Is it hysteria? Because I've heard there's a good technique that helps with that...

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...I don't need batteries.Hockey Widow wrote:Are batteries provided?BurningBeard wrote: Is it hysteria? Because I've heard there's a good technique that helps with that...
That would have been a huge kick in the balls. I can not even believe that was being discussed as a possibility.Hockey Widow wrote:Burke was convinced that the new CBA would be far more punitive on the back diving deals. He had lobbied that the cap recapture on players retiring early be 100% and was convinced that that was what was going to go through. He had also asked for additional penalties of loss of a draft pick or draft pick compensation.
You think I flip burgers like you toss salads?the Dogsalmon wrote:Hockey Widow wrote:Arachnid wrote:
Thank you Widow, you're beautiful!
Still waiting for you to ask me out!
i cant believe the cheap bastard wont even throw a double cheeseburger your way...
His MoJo is deadBurningBeard wrote:That would have been a huge kick in the balls. I can not even believe that was being discussed as a possibility.Hockey Widow wrote:Burke was convinced that the new CBA would be far more punitive on the back diving deals. He had lobbied that the cap recapture on players retiring early be 100% and was convinced that that was what was going to go through. He had also asked for additional penalties of loss of a draft pick or draft pick compensation.
Arachnid wrote:You mean we're all not in Essendale?RoyalDude wrote:Wouldn't it be funny if one day it was discovered that Hockey Widow is a medicated schizo, hospital shut-in lunatic given access to a computer and is a big Canuck fan and all this stuff she goes on about is a fabrication of her paranoid, delusional mind.
Nonuts' deer-in-the-headlights look when asked if Burke's firing had anything to do with a possible Luongo trade =http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/opinion ... sonal.html
Timing right out of Bizarro World
If MLSE planned this out well in advance, the timing makes absolutely zero sense. It is right out of Bizarro World for Burke to be a part of CBA negotiations if this is what the organization wanted to do.
What could have happened? Burke and his staff attended Tuesday night's AHL game between their Toronto Marlies and the Hamilton Bulldogs. After the game, his travel plans to New York City were intact.
He never made the flight.
Just ask yourself a question, who would you rather have as your team's GM? MG or BB? I would definitely take MG over BB any time. The team needs a GM who knows the game, not a clown in front of the media...damonberryman wrote:I both like and admire BB. His hockey trades are risky but got us the Sedins. I feel less happy about the Kessel trade but not as unhappy as I was with the Neely trade. THey all make good and bad trades.
I suppose his value as a human being may not be relevant but I did admire the way he handled his son's death and his son's choice of sexual identity. I also like he is straight up and seems solid.
I think MG has a better sense of the game but he is not as much fun as BB
http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/art ... -franchise
A few reporters asked Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf for his reaction to the firing of Brian Burke. Phaneuf stared into the mountain of cameras and spoke.
“I was definitely shocked,” he said. “That’s the biggest word I could use to describe it.”
Really, Mr. Phaneuf? You were just asked to relay your feelings about the professional demise of a man who bestowed on you the 18th captaincy of the Toronto Maple Leafs — a man who held your on-ice abilities in delusional esteem — and the biggest word you can come up with is seven letters long? Can you confirm this is precisely how you feel?
“Shocked,” Phaneuf said again not long after.
He was robot-talking his way through Take 2 of the same script.
“As I said, that’s the biggest word I could use to describe it.”
As Phaneuf resaid those words and an army of reporters tried hard not to roll their eyes, a couple of things were abundantly clear. One, just because Burke once spotted the big defenceman a “C” doesn’t mean he’ll be winning a team Scrabble tournament any time soon. And two, now that Burke’s force-of-nature media presence is no longer around to command the Toronto spotlight — at least not after Saturday morning’s Air Canada Centre press conference at which the ex-GM is scheduled to appear — Phaneuf isn’t exactly the favourite to fill the void as the franchise’s new face.
Certainly Phaneuf can’t be blamed for being miscast. It’s not his fault he landed the job of team leader without doing anything much to deserve it some 26 games into his Toronto tenure. It’s not Phaneuf’s fault that when Burke occasionally tried to convince people he hadn’t made a mistake appointing Phaneuf captain of the Leafs. The best Burke could ever come up with was to praise Phaneuf for commandeering the volume knob on the dressing room stereo. Yzerman-esque, indeed.
It’s not Phaneuf’s fault ex-Leafs coach Ron Wilson made sports-comedy history last year by anointing him the best defenceman in the league “by a country mile.” It’s also not his fault he’s been thrust into the centre of the game’s biggest media horde without the particular gift for seeming real and believable.