Burke will not be new Leafs GM

[Christopher]

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=235594&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_nhl

Well, that's over. For the sake of the necessary rebuilding, I can't see
them getting a GM for just one year to make a play for him again in 2009.

I have my doubts they're getting Holland from Detroit, either. The biggest
name I'm hearing batted around is actually Messier. Would a completely
inexperienced GM do anything to help the disaster that is Toronto?

Chris

[Darryl Harding]

Post by Christopher
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=235594&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_nhl
Well, that's over. For the sake of the necessary rebuilding, I can't see
them getting a GM for just one year to make a play for him again in 2009.
I have my doubts they're getting Holland from Detroit, either. The biggest
name I'm hearing batted around is actually Messier. Would a completely
inexperienced GM do anything to help the disaster that is Toronto?
Chris

no and the fact that he is a big name means that his would only be the
one that would be bantered around......at least out loud.... i look
for the Teachers Union pension Fund to sit on their hands again until
the lat minute and then hire someone with no experience as they have
done it the past.....but not messier.....i like stevie y taking the gm
in detroit and holland coming over but i dont htink that will
happen....maybe fletcher for another year or two and then use that
time wisely to make the right pick for the future GM position


thanks
Darryl

ps....why would a hab fan give a hoot about the leafs management
woes??? lol

[2rabbtis]

Keep Fletcher and use time wisely to make the right pick for the future GM
position??
It begs the question. When, if ever, have you seen Leafs management use time
(or anything else for
that matter) wisely?

cheers

Post by Darryl Harding

Post by Christopher
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=235594&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_nhl
Well, that's over. For the sake of the necessary rebuilding, I can't see
them getting a GM for just one year to make a play for him again in 2009.
I have my doubts they're getting Holland from Detroit, either. The biggest
name I'm hearing batted around is actually Messier. Would a completely
inexperienced GM do anything to help the disaster that is Toronto?
Chris

no and the fact that he is a big name means that his would only be the
one that would be bantered around......at least out loud.... i look
for the Teachers Union pension Fund to sit on their hands again until
the lat minute and then hire someone with no experience as they have
done it the past.....but not messier.....i like stevie y taking the gm
in detroit and holland coming over but i dont htink that will
happen....maybe fletcher for another year or two and then use that
time wisely to make the right pick for the future GM position
thanks
Darryl
ps....why would a hab fan give a hoot about the leafs management
woes??? lol

[Darryl Harding]

Post by 2rabbtis
Keep Fletcher and use time wisely to make the right pick for the future GM
position??
It begs the question. When, if ever, have you seen Leafs management use time
(or anything else for
that matter) wisely?
cheers

recently, not too much, having come through thte doom and gloom of the
ballard years and having experienced the regereation of the fletcher
years, only to fall into the profiteering of the teachers pension fund
years, I see the repeat of the fact thaat the franchise is the most
financially succesful one in the league and the disinterest of the
ownership in actually lookn gto improve the in ice product .....but
one can only hope that things will change......the team can finish
last every year and still be the most financially succesful franchise
in the league, so money isnt a motivator at all for ownership....lets
hope some sort of pride enters the boardroom soon...i am the most
hardcore leaf fan out there, but i dont hold much hope out that a
group of owners that are paid to improve the pension fund for a group
of gevernment emplyees will ever spend a dime more than they have
to ...period....alas i think we are headed into another decade of
ballardonian policies which spell a long hard time for the fans

thanks
Darryl

[leafs74]

Post by Darryl Harding

Post by 2rabbtis
position??
It begs the question. When, if ever, have you seen Leafs management use time
(or anything else for
that matter) wisely?
cheers

recently, not too much, having come through thte doom and gloom of the
ballard years and having experienced the regereation of the fletcher
years, only to fall into the profiteering of the teachers pension fund
years, I see the repeat of the fact thaat the franchise is the most
financially succesful one in the league and the disinterest of the
ownership in actually lookn gto improve the in ice product .....but
one can only hope that things will change......the team can finish
last every year and still be the most financially succesful franchise
in the league, so money isnt a motivator at all for ownership....lets
hope some sort of pride enters the boardroom soon...i am the most
hardcore leaf fan out there, but i dont hold much hope out that a
group of owners that are paid to improve the pension fund for a group
of gevernment emplyees will ever spend a dime more than they have
to ...period....alas i think we are headed into another decade of
ballardonian policies which spell a long hard time for the fans
thanks
Darryl

Wouldn't it be nice if a fan such as Jim Balsillie were to buy the
team?

[leafs74]

Post by Christopher
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=235594&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_nhl
Well, that's over. For the sake of the necessary rebuilding, I can't see
them getting a GM for just one year to make a play for him again in 2009.
I have my doubts they're getting Holland from Detroit, either. The biggest
name I'm hearing batted around is actually Messier. Would a completely
inexperienced GM do anything to help the disaster that is Toronto?
Chris

My pick for GM even ahead of Brian Burke would be Neil Smith. He
helped build the team that brought the cup back to the Rangers after
50 years, and he's currently unemployed and chomping at the bit to get
back into the game.

[Christopher]

My pick for GM even ahead of Brian Burke would be >Neil Smith. He
helped build the team that brought the cup back to the >Rangers after
50 years, and he's currently unemployed and chomping >at the bit to get
back into the game.

You mean, Neil Smith, as in the guy who wouldn't trade Manny Malhotra for
Pavel Bure so he could put Gretzky and Bure on a line at the same time and
he wound up going to Florida instead? Or the same Neil Smith who wouldn't
pull the deal to do the same thing for Jagr when the Penguins were shopping
him around? To add insult to injury, subsequent GMs were able to pull off
those deals, afterwards?

The only, and I mean ONLY good thing Smith ever did was get Messier (who's
the only reason that team won the cup - remember they finished out of the
playoffs the year before they won) and even he managed to offend him so
badly that he sent the greatest leader in the game packing to Vancouver for
less money than the Rangers ultimately offered him.

There's are large reasons why Neil Smith is still unemployed.

Umm, you know what, on second thought, Yeah, bring him to the leafs!!!!
Whoooo-hooo!!! :-p

Chris

[leafs74]

Post by Christopher

My pick for GM even ahead of Brian Burke would be >Neil Smith. He
helped build the team that brought the cup back to the >Rangers after
50 years, and he's currently unemployed and chomping >at the bit to get
back into the game.

You mean, Neil Smith, as in the guy who wouldn't trade Manny Malhotra for
Pavel Bure so he could put Gretzky and Bure on a line at the same time and
he wound up going to Florida instead? Or the same Neil Smith who wouldn't
pull the deal to do the same thing for Jagr when the Penguins were shopping
him around? To add insult to injury, subsequent GMs were able to pull off
those deals, afterwards?

What did Bure do after leaving Vancouver? I think he stepped head on
into a breeze on the Florida coast and suffered a career ending
injury.

Post by Christopher
The only, and I mean ONLY good thing Smith ever did was get Messier (who's
the only reason that team won the cup - remember they finished out of the
playoffs the year before they won) and even he managed to offend him so
badly that he sent the greatest leader in the game packing to Vancouver for
less money than the Rangers ultimately offered him.

Yea. at the end of Messier's career. Notice how that move nearly
single-handedly ruined the Canucks? Dumping Linden as captain to take
on an aging has been, they did nothing the whole time Messier was with
them.

Post by Christopher
There's are large reasons why Neil Smith is still unemployed.
Umm, you know what, on second thought, Yeah, bring him to the leafs!!!!
Whoooo-hooo!!! :-p
Chris