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Bad Move By Leipold
by Paul on 04/16/09 at 10:24 PM ET
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from Sid Hartman of the Star-Tribune,
It’s hard to understand how Craig Leipold sang the praises of Doug Risebrough when Leipold bought the Wild, only to fire Risebrough, one of the best hockey executives in the game, as team president and general manager a year later....
The johnny-come-lately owner of the Wild must not be informed of all the great things that Risebrough did, taking over an expansion club and making it pretty competitive from the start....
To top it off, Leipold didn’t have the courage to face the media and call a news conference to announce his decision to fire one of the most popular sports executives in my long media career, instead staging a conference call to let the media learn what I consider to be sad news.
added 10:59pm, via Darren Dreger of TSN,
The Minnesota Wild are building a list of candidates to replace fired general manager Doug Risebrough.
Sources tell TSN the Wild have contacted the Toronto Maple Leafs seeking permission to speak with Dave Nonis, the Leafs senior vice president of hockey operations.
Toronto has flatly declined.
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While not disputing that Leipold is a slimy POS, I’m not all that enamored of the job Risebrough’s done, either.
Posted by shep on 04/17/09 at 02:07 PM ET
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“Sources”? Don’t worry about having to quote “sources” anymore, Dreger. Burke’s going to hold an emergency press conference tomorrow morning to address this matter.
Posted by Jerry from Vancouver on 04/17/09 at 12:27 AM ET