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Burke & His Team
by Paul on 11/20/08 at 12:29 PM ET
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from The Spin, the blog of Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
If Burke does sign on this weekend, it appears increasingly likely he won’t be coming alone. His visit to Vancouver this week will include a meeting with Dave Nonis, who worked with Burke in B.C. and was hired by Burke to work in Anaheim during the summer. Nonis had meetings with the Leafs last summer over their vacant executive position, but couldn’t come to an agreement, so clearly he’s already seriously considered re-locating east.
How that would affect the Leaf front office isn’t clear. Fletcher would likely stay on a consultant capacity at least until the end of the 19-month contract he signed last January, and Joe Nieuwendyk appears likely to be part of a Burke team. Burke didn’t immediately clean house when he took over in Vancouver or Anaheim, so he may be content with bringing Nonis in without dumping those already working in Toronto.
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Burke is spending much of today hunting ducks near Vancouver
Awesome.
Posted by Gabriel from San Diego, CA on 11/20/08 at 02:00 PM ET
To me, this is a failure already. Either MLSE will get in the way and ruin things, as they always have, or they’ll let Burke do his job and he’ll do exactly what he did in Vancouver—build a decent, playoff-level team, but not a serious Cup contender.
I guess that’s what makes MLSE so disgusting—they are a lot like the Michigan Wolverines in football—they’d rather achieve enough consistent, moderate success to keep fans coming back and throwing money at them, but don’t have the smarts to get out of their own way and let a real hockey mind raise another banner in that building.
Posted by Nathan on 11/20/08 at 02:21 PM ET
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Now I’m not a guy who cares too much about the “tampering” aspect of Burke to the Leafs—I’ll give that a big “whatever”, as the Ducks did give Burke permission to find new employment.
But doesn’t it seem like Nonis should be off-limits? I don’t recall the Ducks giving permission for him to be hired elsewhere. Maybe it happened and nobody reported it, but if not, I think the Ducks should probably get some compensation for that, no?
Note—this whole comment is speculation. It’s entirely possible that I am way off base, so feel free to tell me I’m wrong or stupid or whatever.
Posted by Earl Sleek from Anaheim, CA on 11/20/08 at 01:44 PM ET