Now with a POLL! Is the Ron Wilson death watch on? (Possible player revolt?)

Brian Burke's franchise rebuilding plan:

step 1) Spout off at
the draft about moving up to select john tavares, fail miserably by
refusing to trade young pylon luke schenn for a clear cut franchise
player.

step 2) Trade a talented defenceman to the thrashers for a pylon only because he will occasionally chuck some knuckles.

step
3) Sign a big pylon just because he can deliver a decent hit, slap the
A on his #8 jersey and expect him to be a star, demonstrating your
clear bias towards american players.

step 4) Sign a defenceman
from your former team who made you look good once in a trade in the
hopes he'll still make you look good. When he also shats the bed, due
to not having a hall of famer to help pad his stats, keep pretending to
still believe in him also.

step 5) Create undue hype around two
undrafted college players you signed, despite them both being passed
over by the thousands of NHL scouts who check all corners of the world
and yet somehow missed these two gems in their backyard.

step 6)
Stick with the undrafted route, and sign unproven swedish goaltender
whose enormous size may well be the only reason he has good stats, and
was being pursued by most other teams as a backup/minor league option.
Again, be sure to create hype. Follow up by trading former goalie of
the future to ducks for bag of pucks.

step 7) In a coup de gras
that will be remembered for ages, trade the next two years' first round
picks, a second round pick, and indirectly a third, in order to obtain
one player who's point totals have only reached the 60 point mark, and
who has had a WHOPPING 36 goal season. Proceed to sign him to a 5 and a
half million dollar, 5 year contract at the height of your supposed
rebuild. Since these three picks will almost surely be top ten picks in
the draft order, Boston will reap great rewards, and Leaf fans will
watch those players mature on another team as Phil Kessel remains an
above average talent with too big a salary for what he contributes.

Enjoy the glory of Burke,
Leaf Nation.

0-6 and counting.

shabbs wrote:Seen some rumblings about bringing Shanny to Toronto to provide some leadership and direction. Not a bad idea, but they don't exactly have a lot of cap space to throw at him.

shabbs wrote:Seen some rumblings about bringing Shanny to Toronto to provide some leadership and direction. Not a bad idea, but they don't exactly have a lot of cap space to throw at him.

PKC wrote:

shabbs wrote:Seen some rumblings about bringing Shanny to Toronto to provide some leadership and direction. Not a bad idea, but they don't exactly have a lot of cap space to throw at him.

Exactly what the doctor ordered...another old, slow as molasses hockey player who won't be able to put the puck in the net. Perfect!

SpezDispenser wrote:

shabbs wrote:Seen some rumblings about bringing Shanny to Toronto to provide some leadership and direction. Not a bad idea, but they don't exactly have a lot of cap space to throw at him.

That wreaks of desperation and is not a solution in the least, but hey, go for it if you want Burkie!

PS...Shanahan to Ottawa, 500K, to work PP2?

wprager wrote:Can I just add that reeks means "smells". Wreak is something you do with havoc.

My apologies, but someone's got to stick up for the English language.

SeawaySensFan wrote:
How about just letting Erik Karlsson work PP1 and leaving Fisher off the PP entirely, unless he wants to park himself in front of the net like he should?

SpezDispenser wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:
How about just letting Erik Karlsson work PP1 and leaving Fisher off the PP entirely, unless he wants to park himself in front of the net like he should?

Erik Karlsson on PP1, yes please. Leave Fisher off the PP? Am I wrong to think that's your bias against him coming out a little?

Dash wrote:Fisher plays the point because he's got a deadly hard shot, so he either chops down a player in front of him with it, or they fear it and move allowing a hsot on net which results in coring chances. Neil should be in front of the net.

Hoags wrote:A Sens Chirp commenter has the funniest summary I ever read of Burke's tenure with the leafs :

Brian Burke's franchise rebuilding plan:

step 1) Spout off at
the draft about moving up to select john tavares, fail miserably by
refusing to trade young pylon luke schenn for a clear cut franchise
player.

step 2) Trade a talented defenceman to the thrashers for a pylon only because he will occasionally chuck some knuckles.

step
3) Sign a big pylon just because he can deliver a decent hit, slap the
A on his #8 jersey and expect him to be a star, demonstrating your
clear bias towards american players.

step 4) Sign a defenceman
from your former team who made you look good once in a trade in the
hopes he'll still make you look good. When he also shats the bed, due
to not having a hall of famer to help pad his stats, keep pretending to
still believe in him also.

step 5) Create undue hype around two
undrafted college players you signed, despite them both being passed
over by the thousands of NHL scouts who check all corners of the world
and yet somehow missed these two gems in their backyard.

step 6)
Stick with the undrafted route, and sign unproven swedish goaltender
whose enormous size may well be the only reason he has good stats, and
was being pursued by most other teams as a backup/minor league option.
Again, be sure to create hype. Follow up by trading former goalie of
the future to ducks for bag of pucks.

step 7) In a coup de gras
that will be remembered for ages, trade the next two years' first round
picks, a second round pick, and indirectly a third, in order to obtain
one player who's point totals have only reached the 60 point mark, and
who has had a WHOPPING 36 goal season. Proceed to sign him to a 5 and a
half million dollar, 5 year contract at the height of your supposed
rebuild. Since these three picks will almost surely be top ten picks in
the draft order, Boston will reap great rewards, and Leaf fans will
watch those players mature on another team as Phil Kessel remains an
above average talent with too big a salary for what he contributes.

Enjoy the glory of Burke,
Leaf Nation.

0-6 and counting.

SeawaySensFan wrote:
I don't have a bias against Fisher. I think he gets misused and the PP is an example. WTF is he doing playing on the perimeter on the PP? Who should be that "net presence" on the PP creating traffic and obstructing the goalies view? Kovalev? Alfredsson? Spezza?

SpezDispenser wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:
I don't have a bias against Fisher. I think he gets misused and the PP is an example. WTF is he doing playing on the perimeter on the PP? Who should be that "net presence" on the PP creating traffic and obstructing the goalies view? Kovalev? Alfredsson? Spezza?

I bet you anything that's one of the things Clouston and staff highlighted. Fisher needs to be farting in the goalie's face - right up in his grill so he can't see anything.

wprager wrote:Can I just add that reeks means "smells". Wreak is something you do with havoc.

My apologies, but someone's got to stick up for the English language.

SpezDispenser wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:
I don't have a bias against Fisher. I think he gets misused and the PP is an example. WTF is he doing playing on the perimeter on the PP? Who should be that "net presence" on the PP creating traffic and obstructing the goalies view? Kovalev? Alfredsson? Spezza?

I bet you anything that's one of the things Clouston and staff highlighted. Fisher needs to be farting in the goalie's face - right up in his grill so he can't see anything.