| A possible motive alluded to earlier on this site, just found a body in a trunk. Dex, help break it down:
For the uninitiated, Maple Leafs coach Paul Maurice was axed yesterday, a few weeks after interim puppet-on-a-string GM, Cliff Fletcher vouched for his job security. The timing? Two days after an MLSE board meeting. Nothing in the history of the MLSE has indicated that the Raptors have any more leeway when it comes to ’spending’ (not ignoring that the Leaf’s problems are a LOT more sordid and historically rooted in a loser’s malaise). The Raptors, however, were smaller money and ‘new’ ground for the hockey minded brass and hence the relative laissez faire approach when it came to meddlesome suits dictating operations. Their latest move has revealed the current mindset is a typically despotic one, and in the Raptors’ case potentially, an economically driven spreadsheet based one. Picture: MLSE board meets and weighs Raptor upside (2nd or 3rd round playoffs at best) vs sunk money for fired coach, deems it not $-viable, rejects Colangelo’s 100 page proposal/thesis, and tells him to buckle up for one more season. Also: sell, sell, sell those RED T-shirts like they’re eco-friendly hybrids. If any shred of evidence ever hinted that Bryan Colangelo had an operational carte blanche, without a mandate from up above, let’s respectfully bury that notion with this latest move. The reins are on. To MLSE, clearly GM = Get Money. |
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May 8th, 2008 at 9:18 am
One of the rumours is that Nonis will be hired for GM, so we can sign Brunnstrom (since he had a previous deal with him) and to keep the seat warm for Burke next year who Bettman prevented from going to the Leafs while he was still under contract with the Ducks, while Burnsy will return as coach for the Leafs.
So, your theory while speculative for now, definitely would not be the most outlandish story revolving around MLSE these days. It wouldn’t surprise me if they wanted to focus all their time, attention and money on the Leafs right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyKQEKWURtI - old clip but for Raptor fans who might have missed.
Watch at 4:45 as the Peddie, whose appearance and incompetence resembles prez Charles Logan from 24, does his water sipping ventriliquism trick on Uncle Cliff (who I wish would match the look, and pull a Jigsaw from Saw on his wannabe neocon ass)
May 8th, 2008 at 9:26 am
.. a sports Dexter would be nice though, to rid the sports world of its evils.
Peddie, Bennett/Stern, Kerry Fraser, Zeke.. ok, he can spare him and keep him around for comedic value.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Yep, seedy bastard.
“Cliff will have the autonomy and responsibility for all hockey matters.”
I’m not saying Maurice’s firing was $ driven. Just pointing out, that the MLSE wields an unhealthy amount of dictatorship when it comes to operations.
And the impetus is often financial.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:15 am
WOW WOW WOW
I never saw that before.
Holy shit. There’s no explanation possible for why Peddie was mouthing the words AT THE SAME TIME that they were spoken.
Fuck that guy. But he’s a puppet as well. Fuck the ownership.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Bang on.
MLSE should have no business running professional sports teams. Greed is killing Toronto sports fans and King Richard Peddie is the face of this greedy dictatorship–MLSE is worse than Kim Jong Il of North Korea and Raul Castro of Cuba
May 9th, 2008 at 11:49 am
So when will you be creating http://www.firerichardpeddie.com?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Already well established it seems:
http://www.firerichardpeddie.ca/