It didn't help that both are not only in direct competition for telecommunications, but I am sure that also losing the rights to the NHL games was a big blow to Bell on top of that...
Rumor: Tim Leiweke Not Happy in Toronto
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It didn't help that both are not only in direct competition for telecommunications, but I am sure that also losing the rights to the NHL games was a big blow to Bell on top of that...
Jerkini
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I'd be unhappy too if I had left the organization that owns the team that just won another stanley cup!
Swervin81
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Pffft... direct competition. Give me a break. They have a cartel on the wireless industry and collude together to fix prices while still raking in money hand over fist.
He's actually come through very fast with most of the teams. It bodes well for the Leafs which was always going to be the toughest of the jobs
Ratboy
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Sorry Tim, but until you give me something tangible in regards to a vast improvement on the Maple Leafs performance, you're just another talking head in a suit to me.
Most of Toronto doesn't care about the Jays or Raptors NEARLY as much as they do the Leafs.
Crap or get off the pot.
Most of Toronto doesn't care about the Jays or Raptors NEARLY as much as they do the Leafs.
Crap or get off the pot.
TL not happy? Big deal. Just another suit. Another fat guy with a sense of entitlement. And he doesn't even skate.
With all the trashing of Leiweke in this thread, outside of PTS/McCown and the odd unsubstantiated rumor, has anything tangible ever actually indicated that Leiweke desperately wants out of Toronto?
Ratboy
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Has anything tangible happened that makes us believe he'll actually make a positive difference in regards to the team with the biggest fan base in the NHL?
thewave
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He has done nothing essentially for the leafs. We are worse off now than before BB firing.
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He was brought in to fix MLSE, not the Leafs.
He has made excellent strides with the other two teams in MLSE, and has just now really turned his attention to the Maple Leafs.
The two moves he has had a big hand in was
1. Jonathan Bernier
2. Brendan Shanahan
both positives IMO. Show some patience.
He has made excellent strides with the other two teams in MLSE, and has just now really turned his attention to the Maple Leafs.
The two moves he has had a big hand in was
1. Jonathan Bernier
2. Brendan Shanahan
both positives IMO. Show some patience.
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if millers-coors and molson-coors can merge...why not coke/pepsi....or rogers/bell?
what is a leiweke? and who is tim?
what is a leiweke? and who is tim?
Leiweke will say he is out of daily operations but will then but in. Leiweke and the person he put in charge of negotiating contracts pretty much pushed Blake and Robitaille out of town in 20001 and 2001.
He said the same thing for the Kings but offering Kovalchuk all that money and every promising Ilya's wife recording contracts, etc if he signed in LA. I am glad it fell through.
The same happened again with Brad Richards. Lieweekly even too it upon himself to have make the trip to Richards' agents offices as well. Remember Leiweke is those two balless guys' boss.
I seriously thing the only reason Lombardi was hired by the Kings was because season ticket holders put so much pressure on him to hire Lombardi, who Kings fans loved and could see the fruit of his efforts in SJ.
**don't any of you see this as a slam on your club either. I have always like the Leafs and I love your passion as fans.
He says that stuff, but just wait.
This was also Mr. "nobody wants to win the Stanley Cup more than me" and then orchestrated trades for players like Eric Rassmussen. Proclaiming that he was the missing piece to push the Kings to a cup.
Don't believe him about that for a second.
Here are a couple good article for you to read
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/14/sports/la-sp-elliott-kings-canucks-20100415
http://mapleleafshotstove.com/2013/04/28/tim-leiweke-a-meddlesome-president-but-a-winning-one/
I thought this was a pretty well known fact.
If they arent the biggest, theyre top 3.
Some away games I've seen have had more leaf fans then local fans.
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Both the Competition Bureau and CRTC would put up quite a fight to make sure that doesn't happen.
