Maple Leafs fire GM Brian Burke
01-09-2013 at 12:05 PM
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Maple Leafs fire GM Brian Burke
From thestar.com:
Brian Burke was fired by the Maple Leafs on Wednesday morning, just a few days before the team’s training camp was to open this weekend.
The move came just when the NHL and the Leafs were preparing to return from the 113-day lockout, and certainly caught everyone in the hockey world by surprise.
Burke was entering the fifth year of a six-year deal, but the landscape with the Leafs ownership. and the immediate need to end seven years out of the playoffs. apparently led to an out-of-nowhere decision.
Leafs ownership changed last winter when Bell-Rogers purchased the majority shares offered up by the Teacher’s Pension Plan. Burke, according to rumours at the time, was told by high-ranking officials within the new ownership group that he had a year to turn things around with his struggling club.
Burke, 57, from Providence, R.I., was introduced as the Leafs general manager on Nov. 28, 2008.
The Leafs said they will make a “major” announcement at 1:45 pm today.
Source: http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/...-burke-reports |
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01-09-2013 at 01:20 PM
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good riddance.
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01-09-2013 at 01:28 PM
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LOL this is the 2nd time Dave Nonis has replaced Brian Burke as GM after Burke got fired. Once in Vancouver and now in Toronto
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