NHL Hockey thread

[Barrister]

The center of the Hockey Universe is exploding right now. Burke got fired!

Great - now I can expect to hear nothing but TML news coming from TSN for the next week or so.

[Grey Fox]

Pretty much. And on Roger Sportsnet too.

Curse them for buying the team together. Curse the CRTC for allowing it.

[Barrister]

Pretty much. And on Roger Sportsnet too.

Curse them for buying the team together. Curse the CRTC for allowing it.

Meh - pretty much stick with TSN since they have the Jets regional channel, and thus have a dedicated staff in Winnipeg.

And it would be like this no matter who owned the Leafs.  After all you don't see massive Jets coverage in the Globe and Mail, despite both being owned by Thomson.

[Grey Fox]

Maybe a little less if the RoBellus didn't own the team. They bought it to have cheap content on the air.

[Barrister]

Maybe a little less if the RoBellus didn't own the team. They bought it to have cheap content on the air.

No, not cheap content (the NHL has rules to prevent teams owned by media outlets from under-selling their media rights).  Rather it was to guarantee access to content.

Bell/Rogers doesn't mind paying for hockey - they just live in fear of losing it altogether.

[PRC]

Weird timing on the Burke firing.

[Neil]

Yeah, but for me, by then the Leafs are already out of playoff contention.

But isn't that true at all times?  Even when they're winning, they're just biding their time until the bottom drops out and they break the hearts of all the fools who adhere to their nonsense out of tradition or mental illness.

[HVC]

Weird timing on the Burke firing.

lockout is over so they don't need as a representative, he's underperformed for four years (even by leafs standards) and new owners who aren't tied to the hiring. Perfect timing, really.

[Barrister]

Weird timing on the Burke firing.

No kidding.  Who fires their GM right before the season?

Even if they were going to fire him, I would have waited until the end of the season.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the rumoured Luongo to Toronto deal.  Didn't Burke have some negative history with Vancouver's GM Mike Gillis?

[Josephus]

Weird timing on the Burke firing.

Not really. MLSE has a habit of doing bizare things. Look at the soccer team that they own, Toronto FC. Yesterday they hired a new manger, who is still employed as  player with a foreign team.

[HVC]

Weird timing on the Burke firing.

Not really. MLSE has a habit of doing bizare things. Look at the soccer team that they own, Toronto FC. Yesterday they hired a new manger, who is still employed as  player with a foreign team.

who'll be on contract until the end of July at his team

Guy even have any coaching experience? I know tfc isn't exactly the big leagues, but you'd think they could do better then a 35 year old playing on a soon to be relegated team with no coaching experience.

[HVC]

I wonder if it has anything to do with the rumoured Luongo to Toronto deal.  Didn't Burke have some negative history with Vancouver's GM Mike Gillis?

I hope not. Don't want that over hyped, over paid choker anywhere near the leafs.

[Barrister]

I wonder if it has anything to do with the rumoured Luongo to Toronto deal.  Didn't Burke have some negative history with Vancouver's GM Mike Gillis?

I hope not. Don't want that over hyped, over paid choker anywhere near the leafs.

I don't get the Lou-hate.  His stats are great.  He won the freaking gold medal for Canada.

Now, I wouldn't want him because of his contract, but not because he isn't a good goalie.

[Neil]

Yeah, it's not like a better goalie could carry the Canucks to a Cup.  For one thing, you could make a case that there aren't any better goalies, or at least that Luongo is one of the very best.  For another thing, no-heart, cheap-shot bitches don't often win the Cup, and the Canucks are no-heart, cheap-shot bitches.

[Josephus]

Guy even have any coaching experience? I know tfc isn't exactly the big leagues, but you'd think they could do better then a 35 year old playing on a soon to be relegated team with no coaching experience.

Nope. None. At.All