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Ducks Would Not Let Burke Leave
by Paul on 04/24/08 at 05:57 AM ET
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from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
Brian Burke very much wanted to talk to the Maple Leafs about their opening for a new hockey boss.
But his bosses with the Anaheim Ducks said no chance.
That, in short, is what happened yesterday, just 24 hours after Burke said he didn’t know if he’d be back with the Ducks next season. Burke will now have to grit his teeth and fulfill the fourth and final year of his existing contract next season knowing he could have had the Leaf job.
Update 12:59pm ET—(alanah) Jim Kelly at Sportsnet.ca shares another perspective:
But there is another version making the rounds in the NHL, and though it’s clearly still in the rumor stage now, it also makes a great deal of sense: The NHL said no go.
It makes sense on several levels, the most important being that, to the best of anyone’s knowledge (and I’ve polled a few long-time hockey people on this), no GM under contract to a team and in good standing with ownership has ever jumped to another club while the contract was in force.
And Marty Henwood at Hockey.com points out that maybe Burke just didn’t want to go to Toronto. (And could you blame him?!?)
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