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Management Committee: The more things change, the more they stay the same.....

Uhhhh.........just pissed myself...

What! Niether of you two came up with a pithy comment about The Leafs having made a career out of talking to ex-stars as the headline suggests?

Oh good the self imposed site moderator is here..

I think that picture of Armstrong is actually Dennis Hopper.

Dennis Hopper .... good one, hehe

bostongm...They can't have one guy....there is far too much money to count for one guy to do it.

Are they desperate in Toronto or what? They fire JFJ and are now talking to Doug Armstrong! Out of the frying pan and into the fire!

Just becasue he's not right for the Stars doesn't mean he's not right for somebody.

Kabong30, nobody is right for Toronto as long as Rick Piddie and the other "geniouses" in upper management remain in place! Armstrong will be just another sacrificial lamb!

Management Committee eh? I love it. This isn't to rub things in, Leafs fans (I actually find myself feeling bad for you now, its scary for me), but, uh, well, many of us TOLD YOU SO!

Unfortunately, there were many a few Leafs fans in here over the last couple months talking about how the Leafs would turn things around and give full control to their new GM, yet here we are with a management committee being referred to. I bet Richard Peddie is on that "committee" as well as puppet Cliff. Now we know Scotty Bowman was telling the truth (not that I doubted it) about why talks with him ended - they wouldn't give him the full control needed to right the ship. What a joke. Those two little words just hurt their chances of nabbing anybody respectable out there, with maybe the exception of Burke, who seems intent on only paying lip service to honouring the contract he has in Anaheim. Oh well, even HE will step down within 3 years of dealing with Peddie's meddling!

Go,

Check your facts around the league. Detroit is the model everyone is looking at, right? Well, they have the best management "team" in place, with Holland, Nill, Bowman, Yzerman and a small army of scouts that work together to get the best results.

The Leafs (and other teams, most recently Dallas) have decided that maybe this is a good route to go, since having many astute opinions is advantageous, seeing Detroit has mastered this approach. So, knock the Leafs all you want, and yes, they deserve it as of late, but this decision is actually not laughable. It makes more sense as time moves forward.

Who knows, maybe Burke gets here and assumes full control this year or next, but having a team of Fletcher, possibly any of .. Nonis, Armstrong, Nieuwendyk etc.. is not a bad option for this franchise.

Don't believe everything you read in these exerpts of full articles. The committee they are lloking to hire is not a bunch of undefined roles. They want to put together much like the Red Wings have in place. And if you ask me, thats pretty damn good!!!

So there Gocanada. Hmmph!

I loved watching Peddie being interviewed by Elliot Sadler, and Elliot just flat-out asked him what he thought about Leaf fans wanting him to get off the f'n tv. Geez, when will MLSE learn. Peddie must be sucking some major pole to have kept his job this long. I bet he was the genius who fired Pat Quinn too... "hmm... we're a Cup contender every year and free agents actually want to sign with us... this isn't working, we need a new GM" BRIILIANT!

Look at how quickly Montreal turned their team around. Its because George Gillett gave Bob Gainey FULL control. Your GM has to have the final say.

I wish someone of Sundin's crede would step-up and throw Peddie under the bus already.

Just out: Armstrong signed with the St. Louis Blues. Another bs from Fannation..