Comments on: Maple Leafs fire Brian Burke and name Dave Nonis GM

By: hotwings

hotwings — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:59:20 +0000

Can anyone offer any analysis on the reilly bashing ? Is jacob trouba really that much of a better thing ?

By: Randy Heath

Randy Heath — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:43:28 +0000

Vancouver has been demanding a considerable return for Luongo. They asked Florida for Nick Bjugstad or Quinten Howden and a First Round Pick and now they are leveraging Toronto’s desire to make the playoffs by asking for Gardiner or Reilly and Kadri or a First Round Pick. I think Burke was correct by refusing to let go of Gardiner or Reilly. Even a Kadri and a First Round Pick may be too much for Luongo. The Toronto brass was disappointed by the selection of Reilly and seem willing to include him in a trade to Vancouver. If Toronto trades any one of those two defenseman and either Kadri or their First Round Pick then the only team that makes the playoffs this year will be Vancouver. Any trade with Vancouver for Luongo will only benefit Vancouver. Toronto should do like the Islanders did with Nabokov and look for a stopgap until they develop a goaltender instead of sacrificing youth to satisfy the needs of the present. Just ask the Islanders how the trades for Peca and Yashin in the 1990s worked out. They made the playoffs but destroyed their future.

By: hotwings

hotwings — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:30:13 +0000

the leafs need to make the luongo deal happen now… something positive to build on this season to counter the organizational drama that will undoubtedly hang over this team for the remainder of the season. you can’t cut the head off the bull and expect it to run hard for you…

By: hotwings

hotwings — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:51:33 +0000

there is no way you can involve jake gardiner in a deal for luongo. gardiner has way too much upside at this point and with another strong season under his belt, you can put him in the same sentence as karlsson in ottawa.

By: I_am_I

I_am_I — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:24:01 +0000

The trader for Luongo only makes sense if you can steal him from Vancouver. They are going to be in cap trouble this summer (under $9M to sign 10 players) plus Backstrom may hit free agency as well. Minny also has cap issues and has a good goalie in Harding at under $2M/year.
Nonnis is under no pressure to make the playoffs this year, he’d do better to wait for the summer to trade for Luongo IMO.

By: hotwings

hotwings — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:49:05 +0000

wow, absolute shocker. id preferred he stayed and see this thing thru for another 4-5 years and then hand over to Nonis… i still feel that the kessel trade hung over his tenure like bad cheese. but there are so many positives to burke’s deal making.. ie… the kaberle trade, absolute steals like gardiner and lupul…

ill miss burke dearly.. he was the ideal gm for toronto… i dont want to go back to the days of lame duck j. ferguson (no offence to him, but it seems his hands were tied)…

if it indeed came down to whether to trade for luongo or not… i wish it was done… bad contract or not, he is going to get you 10 more points at seasons end, and it may snowball into something bigger if you got everyone playing w/ more confidence..

sad in toronto.. hopefully nonis is what he is rumoured to be…

By: John Baines

John Baines — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:27:09 +0000

This is the biggest mistake the Leafs could have made. He is turning the corner now and I really hope that this doesn’t mean that we are getting Toronto

By: Galactus

Galactus — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:02:52 +0000

When Burke was hired, he said : “There are two hands on the steering wheel and they are both mine”.

I am willing to bet that he was told to trade for Luongo and he refused.

It’s the only explanation that makes any sense.