Assuming we will have a season this year, will it be the last for Brian Burke? He has two years left on his six year contract. His teams have not made the playoffs during his tenure and IMHO there is nothing to indicate that they will turn it around this season. The old issues of no front line centre and goalie continue. For all the money that has been invested in the defense corps, it can scarcely be described as a shut-down blue line. If the Leafs do not make the playoffs:
Would management reward him with an extension at the end of this season?
Let him run out the last year of his contract in 2013-2014
Fire him at the end of this season and eat the last year of his contract.
Brian is very blunt about performance issues and evaluation. If you are what the score says you are, by his own standards Brian has failed. And I question if a core group of character, high performing players has been assembled that will give hope for the future. When we have been out of the playoffs since 2004 (?) the future has to be now.
I like Brian, and wanted to see him come to Toronto. But I feel that he has failed and should be fired at the end of this season unless we make the playoffs.
What say you?
Would management reward him with an extension at the end of this season?
Let him run out the last year of his contract in 2013-2014
Fire him at the end of this season and eat the last year of his contract.
Brian is very blunt about performance issues and evaluation. If you are what the score says you are, by his own standards Brian has failed. And I question if a core group of character, high performing players has been assembled that will give hope for the future. When we have been out of the playoffs since 2004 (?) the future has to be now.
I like Brian, and wanted to see him come to Toronto. But I feel that he has failed and should be fired at the end of this season unless we make the playoffs.
What say you?