Burke to TO official

Sportsnet is reporting that Burke has signed a 6 year 18 mil deal with TO...

Wow...

HAHA, f'ing beautiful. And they thought TO was a mess after 3 short years of JFJ. Wait 'till Burkie's done with it!

So... Burke reports to Peddie... who reports to the Board... nothing's changed.

Meh, w/e, word is he is going to blow this team right up.

rooneypoo wrote:HAHA, f'ing beautiful. And they thought TO was a mess after 3 short years of JFJ. Wait 'till Burkie's done with it!

Bang on dude...

I swear, I cannot figure out why so many people have such praise for the man?!?!
I have to agree though. If Leaf fans were ready to lynch JFJ, I can't WAIT to see what goes down in 2-3 years!

While I really don't care for Brian Burke, I can't help but think he's a massive improvement over JFJ. Huge. I think he'll be good for the Leafs. Don't be surprised to see Chris Pronger in the blue shirt summer 2009

oh dear god. Pronger, in a blue and white shirt?!?! f**K!!!

rooneypoo wrote:HAHA, f'ing beautiful. And they thought TO was a mess after 3 short years of JFJ. Wait 'till Burkie's done with it!

What, you mean Burke doesn't have Scott Neidermeyer's brother playing for the Leafs in order to entice him to come to Toronto? Doesn't he have a team with a digruntled superstar D that is willing to send him to TO for scraps? Surely he has a good solid base of picks, prospects and solid NHLers to work from previous GMs right? Oh wait that was Anaheim LOL.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:HAHA, f'ing beautiful. And they thought TO was a mess after 3 short years of JFJ. Wait 'till Burkie's done with it!

What, you mean Burke doesn't have Scott Neidermeyer's brother playing for the Leafs in order to entice him to come to Toronto? Doesn't he have a team with a digruntled superstar D that is willing to send him to TO for scraps? Surely he has a good solid base of picks, prospects and solid NHLers to work from previous GMs right? Oh wait that was Anaheim LOL.

LOL! Well put!

See, while this Toronto team doesn't SUCK, they sure aren't the Anaheim team Murray gift-wrapped for Burke, so I for one am REALLY interested to see what Burke does when he has to do all the work FROM SCRATCH!! Personally, I think he's going to fail and I'll put $20 into the pot RIGHT Now and say he will NOT finish his 6 year contract before being canned...

Cronenbergfan wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:HAHA, f'ing beautiful. And they thought TO was a mess after 3 short years of JFJ. Wait 'till Burkie's done with it!

What, you mean Burke doesn't have Scott Neidermeyer's brother playing for the Leafs in order to entice him to come to Toronto? Doesn't he have a team with a digruntled superstar D that is willing to send him to TO for scraps? Surely he has a good solid base of picks, prospects and solid NHLers to work from previous GMs right? Oh wait that was Anaheim LOL.

LOL! Well put!

See, while this Toronto team doesn't SUCK, they sure aren't the Anaheim team Murray gift-wrapped for Burke, so I for one am REALLY interested to see what Burke does when he has to do all the work FROM SCRATCH!! Personally, I think he's going to fail and I'll put $20 into the pot RIGHT Now and say he will NOT finish his 6 year contract before being canned...

I'll throw a Fighting Montagoose hat in to the pot :D

I don't know how he'll do. He has an infinite amount of money to operate a team now. A bunch of young players who he really won't care about axing. And only has to report to the CEO of MLSE. Autonomy + money = very interesting position.

PKC wrote:I don't know how he'll do. He has an infinite amount of money to operate a team now. A bunch of young players who he really won't care about axing. And only has to report to the CEO of MLSE. Autonomy + money = very interesting position.

REVISE: "Autonomy + money [+ salary cap] = a very interesting [and potentially disastrous] position."

If one thing has become clear about Burke in the post-cap NHL, it's that he can't manage a cap very well. People will point to the Selanne and Niedermayer situations as unique, but there's more to it than that. This guy lost a boatload of talent over his tenure, largely because he didn't anticipate people taking advantage of the full implications of the new CBA, or because he didn't manage the team's finances properly: Penner (although that one's looking better), Bryzgalov, Macdonald, Schneider, O'Donnell. And let's not forget the Bertuzzi signing. And the Morrison signing. And the fact that over 2/3rds of ANA's current roster will be UFA after this year. And the fact that Bobby Ryan is their only decent prospect in the system right now...

How many UFAs does Anaheim have that will bolt next year? Quite a few. I think Burke got out while he could... knowing it was all going to go downhill out there.

Let the fire sale begin.... a lot of Leafs should be watching their backs right now.

He's going to put a lot of pressure on a few players to waive their NTC's me thinks.

A lot of team would love to have Kaberle and /or Kubina right now... especially with the Bouwmeester bidding wars, this could put Martin in a bind with the competition.