Primus099 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I bet it was something to do that they haven't made the playoffs ever since he became GM even though he kept talking about how he's going to turn the team around...just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneypuckOverlord Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 not a chance. Toronto really didn't have anything decent to offer up, but a bunch of 3rd line plugs and bottom 6 defencemens. He was just a bad gm. Look at the team record during the 4 years he was here. Luongo trade had nothing to do with it. What's funny is he's replaced with Nonis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILL BILL NECRO Posted January 10, 2013 Author Share Posted January 10, 2013 not a chance. Toronto really didn't have anything decent to offer up, but a bunch of 3rd line plugs and bottom 6 defencemens. He was just a bad gm. Look at the team record during the 4 years he was here. Luongo trade had nothing to do with it. What's funny is he's replaced with Nonis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesman60 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 As long as Mike Gillis can get a good player that can help this team win a Cup and a prospect or two for the future, I could care less where Luongo gets traded. If it is TO, Philly or even a team in our division, just get it done and make this team better long term. As far as TO, Luongo can put the Leafs in the playoffs for the 1st time in 9 years, that is why they want him.....making the playoffs is worth huge dollars and that is all that matters. The owner is probaly putting Nonis in to get the deal done even at a slight cost to the future. All those playoff dollars make a top prospect like Gardiner expendable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoreanHockeyFan Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I also heard a rumour that Burke was fired because the rest of the management wanted to go through with a Luongo deal but Burke himself didn't. I'm skeptical of this rumour, but seeing as how someone else just commented on the same rumour I'd say it's a SMALL possibility. I watched on TSN also that MLSE wanted a more "democratic" GM and claimed that Burke was running a "dictatorship" over the management. Maybe his dictator-like style shown with this Luongo deal was the last straw? All speculation, but it's still worth trying to unravel the reasoning behind this incredibly strange timing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 It takes more than a potential trade going south for a GM to get fired. Luongo is just the latest in a looooooong list of players that 'could've gone to TO.' This was all about Rogers/Bell and how they thought of Burke. Burke had multiple run-ins with the media there. He banned some. He made himself hard to deal with for others. And he was generally disliked by multiple Rogers/Bell people. So what do you think two corporate media giants would think of that? SEE ya! Totally not a hockey move. Sorry Strombone1, but having a rule named after you is enough. You don't control the destinies of GM's around the league, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Ah, but the timing... Yes it doesn't make sense. But since when has MLSE done things that make sense? Likely their board needed all this time to make a decision, and then decided to announce it just after the lockout's end. Again, not a good hockey move. MLSE = FAIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicNuckleHead09 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Lies! Hugh Hefner's bunnies never poo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeslerPlaysLikeACanadian Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 they want luo, dave makes the deal, philadelphia also wants him gilis played it right let the bidding begin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onions Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 could be one of many reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckfansincebirth Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Heard from a source it has more to do with personal issues than anything else. Thus the keeping him on as "advisor" thing. (First post back at cdc since summer btw, good to be back!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggins Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Wasn't it Nonis who traded for Luongo in 2006? Hopefully history repeats itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Heard from a source it has more to do with personal issues than anything else. Thus the keeping him on as "advisor" thing. (First post back at cdc since summer btw, good to be back!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Noheart Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 A: The deal was in place and was about to be final and the owners thought Burke was giving up to much and selling the farm to get luongo, soooo they axed him. I hope it is this because there ain't a dam thing the Canucks should be excited about in regards to what is realistically on the table. The nucks won't get anything more than the Nash return 2 lower 9 forwards a mid level prospect 1st is what CLB got Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reversedplayoffbeard Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Am i the only one who believes that keeping lou for this season is a good thing? What if he does like Thomas and show the new hot goalie ,who everybody thinks is the starter, whos the boss!! What if toronto dont make the playoff this year either. Wouldn't that make them pay almst anything for lou? I know theres alot of what ifs but ...... what if Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckCup1316 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I hope this is true and another team ends up getting Luo instead like Philly or Florida lol. Let the bidding war begin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riviera82 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Hopefully we'll get a better return than Florida did...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLindenIsGod Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 No.. Somebody has been paying toooooo much attention to the TSN panel of 'experts'. I'm sure that if I sucked at my job and hadn't produced any real results in over 6 years I could expect myself to get fired too. Honestly Burke was lucky to have held onto the GM position for as long as he did.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd71 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I think this is all stuff being put out by the Canucks to drive a market that wasn't there. I think they are floating that Burke wouldn't deal for Luongo so he was let go. And it's a brilliant move! The reality is that Burke has had a really rough few years with his son passing and the pressure of working in Toronto. I think it was time for him to go but that he has left Nonnis with some good stuff to work with. I know people on here like to make fun of the Leafs and their talent but there is talent in Toronto and most of it is young. And Nonnis isn't an idiot. He isn't going to make a bad trade for Luongo just to make his new bosses happy. And lets be honest. The new bosses really only care about the bottom line. They have to. They have share holders to answer to. Hockey decisions are irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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