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Two Americans Leading The Leafs

by Paul on 11/28/08 at 03:40 PM ET
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from Jim Kelley at Sports Illustrated,

You can bet that fans will be talking coast to coast about Burke’s rumored six-year, $18 million salary. They will surely go deep into the speculation as regards exactly how much control he received from the historically meddlesome management there….

Me, I’ll be wondering how all of Canada will deal with the fact that Canada’s team—and love or hate the Leafs, that’s what they are—is now being managed and coached by a pair of Americans.

I know we’re dancing around a touchy issue here, but my intent is not to deal in cultural stereotyping and bigotry. I’ve spent more than half my working life in Canada. I love the country and its people. The only point I’m making here is that hockey—at least from a Canadian perspective—is Canada’s game.

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If the Leafs turn things around and become a legitimate Stanley Cup contender, the only people who’ll be upset about a couple of Americans running the Leafs are the anti-fans who hate the Leafs.

If the Leafs continue to miss the playoffs, the only people who’ll be upset about it are Leafs fans.

Basically, nobody really cares either way, but they might use it as a convenient reason to attack the team.  Then again, nobody has any shortage of reasons to criticise the Leafs right now, so it’s kind of hard to imagine a future in which people will have to start looking for ones like this.

Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 11/28/08 at 04:21 PM ET

I forgot one other class of people: journalists.  They were the only people who gut in a tizzy when Coors bought Molson or when Wendy’s bought Tim Hortons.  You’re likely to see an article or two about Americans running “Canada’s Team”, but nobody else will care.

Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 11/28/08 at 04:41 PM ET

Oh man did the Leafs screw that up too? Wow can this team ever do anything right? Thank god Toronto has it’s media to let all of us know that no matter what, the Leafs can do nothing right.

Posted by puckbuddy on 11/28/08 at 05:04 PM ET

As soon as he said the Leafs are Canada’s team I tuned out.

If the Leafs were really Canada’s team I’d have to vote to separate.

Posted by Ted from Montreal on 11/28/08 at 07:25 PM ET

Ryan: You forgot an American buying Hudson’s Bay Company and running it into the ground.

Posted by Doogie2K from Calgary on 11/29/08 at 07:17 PM ET

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