Again when you have a high opinion of a player..you don't believe others could do his job. So we never see eye to eye. Again...with all due respect..your opinion of Phaneuf like mine means nothing. I don't actually care what you think of him no more than you care what I think of him. I am telling you..I believe Nonis and MLSE are looking to head in a different direction. Phaneuf is Burke's leader. Pretty common in the corporate world to remove the disciples of the leader they axe. The Leafs have not had great leadership under Phaneuf. A couple of epic collapses need to fall on the leaders shoulders...Phaneuf is definitely one of the leaders when he wears the C.
Let me get this straight, you called someone else's response to you a cop out? You completely ignored all my questions to you and talked about things I never brought up. I never said my opinion or how high it was on Phaneuf.
You made a claim that he was undeserving of his minutes and doesn't make others better. I refuted that and asked if he didn't deserve his minutes what what be your distribution of minutes on the back end?
Nonis also responded on radio that yes he expected Phaneuf in a Leafs uniform next season, so I wouldn't get your hopes up that they are going in a different direction.
Lastly can you give any NHL examples of this: "Pretty common in the corporate world to remove the disciples of the leader they axe" This isn't the corporate world and I can't think of any examples where new GMs come in and trade one of the more talented players and captain solely because he was the captain of the previous regime.