The Unofficial Fire Ron Wilson/Ron Wilson is the Greatest Thread

[cw]

The game last night was brutal, fire Wilson.

But how could he be wrong dressing six 'righties' on the D!! ?? 

 

[ZBBM]

The game last night was brutal, fire Wilson.

Go tell it on the mountain!

Over the hills, and everywhere!

 

[Bender]

The game last night was brutal, fire Wilson.

But how could he be wrong dressing six 'righties' on the D!! ?? 

It worked the game before will all lefties. Maybe we should get rid of all our righties

 

[Redleaf]

The Pranksters, starring Ron Wilson & Brian Burke......

http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/41763-Kennedy-Brian-BurkeRon-Wilsons-prank-war.html

..... decades-long prank war Burke and Wilson have waged against each other......

The first great story in the friendly rivalry harkens back to those Providence College days. The Friars were playing a tournament over the Christmas holidays, so the whole team stayed in the same dorm at school. Providence is a Catholic school and though Burke is part of that denomination, Wilson is not. Burke led a contingent to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and while he was gone, Wilson broke into his room and changed the alarm clock.

To Burke?s credit, he was only five minutes late for practice the next morning, but late is late. Lamoriello?s punishment was for Burke to have an extra on-ice workout at 4 a.m. ? under the coach?s personal supervision.

?We thought it would be a one-day punishment,? Wilson said. ?But it ended up lasting six or seven days.?

When the Friars did two-a-days, Burke would be on the ice three times ? the third always coming at four in the morning.

?He didn?t know it was me who changed his clock,? Wilson said. ?But he should have known.?

Wilson waited until the two were out of college before he eventually fessed up.
                                        .................
...Wilson came into Burke?s office, he asked his former college roommate if he had any coffee. Burke quickly obliged, ducking out down the hall to grab some for his pal.

?I don?t know why I would ever leave Ronnie alone in my office for two minutes,? Burke said.

After the two chatted, Wilson excused himself and Burke quickly realized his dress shoes had about a one-inch layer of shampoo in them.

When does Burke wake up and see Ron's been playing his biggest, most elaborate practical joke yet on him, for the past 4 years. His impromptu impersonation of an NHL coach.

 

[Highlander]

Geez, one bad exhibition game and the hounds are loose. The night before you would have given Ron (one of the most winning coaches in NHL history) the Keys to the city. Lets all relax until Thanksgiving when we have several real season games to chew on. Also don't forget that Ron almost won gold at the last Olympics except for the heroics of one "Sid the Kid"...

 

[Kin]

Geez, one bad exhibition game and the hounds are loose. The night before you would have given Ron (one of the most winning coaches in NHL history) the Keys to the city. Lets all relax until Thanksgiving when we have several real season games to chew on. Also don't forget that Ron almost won gold at the last Olympics except for the heroics of one "Sid the Kid"...

No, I'm sorry. I'm going to have to insist that he get fired immediately. This is serious business.

 

[bustaheims]

Geez, one bad exhibition game and the hounds are loose. The night before you would have given Ron (one of the most winning coaches in NHL history) the Keys to the city. Lets all relax until Thanksgiving when we have several real season games to chew on. Also don't forget that Ron almost won gold at the last Olympics except for the heroics of one "Sid the Kid"...

I'm super cereal about this. Ron Wilson must go. Rabble rabble rabble.

 

[Zee]

He's earned a reprieve for now.  I'm still watching though...

 

[Kin]

ESPN posted a bit on ten pressing questions for the upcoming hockey year and one of the topics they touched on was which Coach is on the shortest leash. They were unanimous:

7. Which coach will have the shortest leash this season?

Burnside: There are lots of coaches with high expectations, like Terry Murray in Los Angeles and Lindy Ruff in Buffalo; but for us, Toronto's Ron Wilson has to show immediate improvement, especially with the Leafs' perennially awful special teams, or he's in trouble.

Custance: Wilson. You can miss the playoffs only so many times before it costs you your job, even if your boss thinks highly of you. The Leafs are young and counting on James Riemer to repeat last season's breakout performance. It's quite possible he does; if not, the Ron Wilson era will be coming to an end.

LeBrun: Wilson. He's a terrific coach, but the Leafs have been out of the playoffs every season he's been here, and GM Brian Burke not extending the coach's deal this summer was a telltale sign. Wilson needs a strong start to the season.

 

[Strangelove]

I doubt he'll make it until Christmas, personally.  I don't think he has what it takes to motivate a young club.  And without Kabs on an already terrible powerplay, well...

 

[bustaheims]

My guess is the Leafs keep things interesting enough for him to last the season, but he won't be back for 12/13.

 

[leafsjunkie]

I doubt he'll make it until Christmas, personally.  I don't think he has what it takes to motivate a young club.  And without Kabs on an already terrible powerplay, well...

By that you mean the terrible powerplay that Kaberle was on too? And the horrible powerplay Boston had with him on it as well?

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

My guess is the Leafs keep things interesting enough for him to last the season, but he won't be back for 12/13.

I'm leaning that way myself, just going by the tone of how Burke has been talking about it. This whole " he's gone thing if the Leafs stumble" is more coming from the media I think. Internally, I think this season is more about his extension, than whether or not he gets removed early.

 

[PG]

He's gone if they're out of it by xmas again.

 

[ZBBM]

My guess is the Leafs keep things interesting enough for him to last the season, but he won't be back for 12/13.

I'm leaning that way myself, just going by the tone of how Burke has been talking about it. This whole " he's gone thing if the Leafs stumble" is more coming from the media I think. Internally, I think this season is more about his extension, than whether or not he gets removed early.

If we lose the first 4 or 5 games (EDIT: esp as they are all at home), BB will hook him.  There's no way he can have a poor October and still have Wilson at the helm.

The key to his survival is, as most are aware, special teams.  I don't have much hope for the PP, so I think we'll need a superb PK to give Wilson any chance of survival.  It could happen.

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

If we lose the first 4 or 5 games, BB will hook him.  There's no way he can have a poor October and still have Wilson at the helm.

The key to his survival is, as most are aware, special teams.  I don't have much hope for the PP, so I think we'll need a superb PK to give Wilson any chance of survival.  It could happen.

Maybe if they are just down right horrid, but not if the Leafs keep things interesting, as Busta says.

 

[ZBBM]

If we lose the first 4 or 5 games, BB will hook him.  There's no way he can have a poor October and still have Wilson at the helm.

The key to his survival is, as most are aware, special teams.  I don't have much hope for the PP, so I think we'll need a superb PK to give Wilson any chance of survival.  It could happen.

Maybe if they are just down right horrid, but not if the Leafs keep things interesting, as Busta says.

If we go 1-for or 0-for an opening 5-game homestand, "keeping things interesting" will not be good enough.  Or at least it shouldn't be.

 

[hockeyfan1]

ESPN posted a bit on ten pressing questions for the upcoming hockey
year and one of the topics they touched on was which Coach is on the
shortest leash. They were unanimous:

7. Which coach will have the shortest leash this season?

Burnside: There are lots of coaches with high expectations, like Terry Murray in Los Angeles and Lindy Ruff in Buffalo; but for us, Toronto's
Ron Wilson has to show immediate improvement, especially with the
Leafs' perennially awful special teams, or he's in trouble.

Custance: Wilson. You can miss the playoffs only so many times before it costs you your job, even if your boss thinks highly of you. The Leafs
are young and counting on James Riemer to repeat last season's
breakout performance. It's quite possible he does; if not, the Ron
Wilson era will be coming to an end.

LeBrun: Wilson. He's a terrific coach, but the Leafs have been out of the playoffs every season he's been here, and GM Brian Burke not
extending the coach's deal this summer was a telltale sign. Wilson
needs a strong start to the season.

The Hockey News also had a poll asking it's readers on whom they thought would be the first coach to be fired this season, with a list of names provided to choose from... 32% chose Ron Wilson.

 

[Optimus Reimer]

Even if the PP is still crappy, as long as the PK can improve drastically, I think that is a good step in the right direction.  If both the PP and PK are bad, Wilson will have to go because very few teams that have both bad PPs and PKs make the playoffs.

 

[Kin]

Too soon?