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Ron Wilson fired by the Leafs, no replacement named yet. Interesting.

That is interesting, Burke has expressed a lot of confidence in him over the past few years.

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Burke is a prick...He doesn't do anything at the deadline to help Wilson, says he "believes" in this team going forward, then cans his ass..Leaf fans relentlessly burned our Habs at the stake for trading Cammy mid game, only to have that loud-mouthed POS (Burke) fire his coach all the while doing NOTHING at the trade deadline to help him out..

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Burke is a prick...He doesn't do anything at the deadline to help Wilson, says he "believes" in this team going forward, then cans his ass..Leaf fans relentlessly burned our Habs at the stake for trading Cammy mid game, only to have that loud-mouthed POS (Burke) fire his coach all the while doing NOTHING at the trade deadline to help him out..

We deserved that criticism about Cammalleri, same to the criticism against Cunnyworth's lack of francais.

That said, any Leaf fan who blames the issues on Ron Wilson is just gullible. Which is no surprise. I'm already hearing the narrative that Wilson didn't make the Leafs physical enough. Was he supposed to body check for Dion Phaneuf?

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In four years Wilson couldn't fix the Leafs PK. That's coaching. PP you can say you don't have skilled players but the PK not as much. It might not become #1 without a Pleks or a Gill or a goalie or something, but no reason why it had to be 27th or lower every year other than coaching

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Burke signed Grabs for 5 year at 5.5 per year. What a stupid contract. A soft perimeter goal scorer who will probably average about 20 goals per season and bring zero "truculence". I wonder if AK felt he was in the same league as Grabs and wanted that much.

I would rather let some of these GMs screw themselves them participate in the insanity. The Gomez and Kaberle contracts are already hurting this teams ability to get better, we don't need more over paid guys chewing up the cap.

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Brian Burke hangs up on radio host:

http://www.newstalk1010.com/shows/mooreinthemorning/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10356109

Radio host John Moore asks Brian Burke about if he feels Burke's job is on the line this season. Burke responds by saying he wouldn't have agreed to the interview if he knew he was going to be asked such a gutless question and hangs up.

Is Brian feeling some heat from his bosses, or is it just Burke being Burke?

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To be fair, he could hit 60 points this season.

Also, their real problem isn't Grabovski but Connolly/Lombardi equal to around $8M.

He needs 15 pts in 17 games to get there which is a bigger pace than hes had all year

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hes only on pace for 57 if he plays 82 games. He wont play 82. Hes only got 17 left.

According to TSN your math is wrong. He'll do 57 in 75. For 60 he only needs 15 in 17. Again, it's not impossible as much as you're hard pressed to make this claim on him, which is currently valid.

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<p>The Alex Radulov Story or me schooling former NHL GMs on the intracacies of the NHLPA/NHL CBA

Brian Lawton ‏ @brianlawton9

Does it feel odd that Radulov goes awol, makes nearly 17 million in KHL and can return to play? CBA Article 13 waivers allows it by silence

CMD Beaker CMD Beaker ‏ @beakermania

@brianlawton9 13.23 seems clear, it would force waivers, unless special agreement PA and league to waive provision of CBA

Brian Lawton Brian Lawton ‏ @brianlawton9

@beakermania not true....nhlpa has nothing to do with this. Past precedence rules. NHLPA could possibly object but why hurt a member of PA?

CMD Beaker CMD Beaker ‏ @beakermania

@brianlawton9 NHLPA wouldn't stop it, but from my legal background seems standard procedure that they are signing off on an agreement (1/2)

@brianlawton9 that gives one-time exception to 13.23 of CBA. PA wouldn't object of course, but signature is formality of exception procedure

@brianlawton9 why are BMcKenzie, DDreger, and others all reporting that NHLPA approval was required and has been granted?

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=390157

"Paper work is being finalized that would see Alexander Radulov return to the NHL this season and the National Hockey League Players' Association said they would agree to bypass waivers for the Russian forward if he decides to return to the Nashville Predators."

Probably why he isn't a GM anymore.

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<p>The Alex Radulov Story or me schooling former NHL GMs on the intracacies of the NHLPA/NHL CBA

Brian Lawton ‏ @brianlawton9

Does it feel odd that Radulov goes awol, makes nearly 17 million in KHL and can return to play? CBA Article 13 waivers allows it by silence

CMD Beaker CMD Beaker ‏ @beakermania

@brianlawton9 13.23 seems clear, it would force waivers, unless special agreement PA and league to waive provision of CBA

Brian Lawton Brian Lawton ‏ @brianlawton9

@beakermania not true....nhlpa has nothing to do with this. Past precedence rules. NHLPA could possibly object but why hurt a member of PA?

CMD Beaker CMD Beaker ‏ @beakermania

@brianlawton9 NHLPA wouldn't stop it, but from my legal background seems standard procedure that they are signing off on an agreement (1/2)

@brianlawton9 that gives one-time exception to 13.23 of CBA. PA wouldn't object of course, but signature is formality of exception procedure

@brianlawton9 why are BMcKenzie, DDreger, and others all reporting that NHLPA approval was required and has been granted?

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=390157

"Paper work is being finalized that would see Alexander Radulov return to the NHL this season and the National Hockey League Players' Association said they would agree to bypass waivers for the Russian forward if he decides to return to the Nashville Predators."

Probably why he isn't a GM anymore.

haha good job!

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11th straight season of 30+ goals for Jarome Iginla.

:clap: :clap: :clap:

Loads of respect, to bad Calgary didn't beat Tampa that year.. While it was great for Dave A. to get it, Iggy deserves a cup!

Alfredsson is another who really deserves another crack at a cup. If you take out injured years Al has got 20+ every single season in the NHL. Including two 40 and two 30 goal years (has 22 atm).

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Nikita Filatov a healthy scratch for his Russian MHL (russian jr league) team in 2 straight playoff games.

He was sent from the big club to the junior team when the big club was eliminated from their playoffs

Dmitry Chesnokov ‏ @dchesnokov

"If u took a spot from young guys who played in regular season, u have 2..get a result...and not just skate around." coach on Filatov. Ouch

What a B-U-S-T

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