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View Poll Results: Why was Burke Fired
Maple Leafs didn’t win, missing playoffs in every season he was there. 3 6.82%
Personality conflict with Leafs ownership. 20 45.45%
New GM Dave Nonis seen as the real brains or better option for the team. 2 4.55%
Burke wasn’t willing pull trigger on a Roberto Luongo trade. 19 43.18%
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Old 01-09-2013, 04:20 PM
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Heres the main specualtion. If you have another answer post it.

Right from the Vancouver Sun

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Interesting heres an excerpt from Toronto Star.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...ed-an-era-ends

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The guess here is Burke was fired for one of two reasons.

One, at least half of the new MLSE ownership team, Bell, was seemingly prepared to fire Burke during the summer. The boss there, George Cope, reportedly disliked Burke’s management style and brash public comments, and thought he was “bad for the brand.”

Two, both Bell and Rogers are keen on a deal for Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo and Burke was resisting such a move. He said repeatedly of late that he was “90 per cent” certain he wanted to go with the combination of James Reimer and Ben Scrivens in net and had talked several times about his frustrations of dealing with Vancouver GM Mike Gillis, particularly since he wasn’t sure dealing for Luongo was the right move.

Clearly, it wasn’t anything Burke had done lately because the lockout had prevented all NHL general managers from making any moves since Sept. 15th.
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Can I vote for all four? Lol.
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The only real morsel that we got from the Leafs press conference that Burke's 'style' did not mesh well with the ownership group. Remember new ownership took over in August and something happened since then until today that Burke overstayed his welcome, the status quo for him changed from that day on and he obviously was not going to get a 100% backing from the new owners. Funny that they kept him in an adversary role instead of making a clean break.
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Interesting heres an excerpt from Toronto Star.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...ed-an-era-ends
OK, this was what I was trying to get at, lol!

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The Luongo thing and the personality conflict kind of overlap IMO.
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Unless Burke speaks out (which he likely won't while under contract), I guess we'll never know. The next couple of days and a possible acquisition of Luongo might be telling.
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