Kevin Lowe and Brian Burke: Still Not BFF's

sleahy21 posted 7/5/2008 from goingfivehole.blogspot.com [flag]

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Puck Daddy's 10 can't-miss games of the 2008-09 NHL season
Published 7/17/2008 by Sean Leahy at Puck Daddy
... Word has it that during their meetings last season, there was a security guard located between the two suites that sat Kevin Lowe and Brian Burke. If that was the case, well, they might as well just let these two duke it out and get it over with. You think a ...

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Jaromir, We Hardly Knew Ya, and I’m Not Sure We’ll Miss You

OnFrozenBlog posted 7/7/2008 from www.onfrozenblog.com

There was, seemingly, a continent-wide silence over the weekend associated with Jaromir Jagr’s departure from the NHL. Indeed, the latest flareup between Oilers GM Kevin Lowe and Ducks’ GM Brian Burke seems to have made a larger impression on the hockey world this weekend than has Jagr’s departure.

Settle Down, Kevin Lowe

Puck Daddy found this 7/7/2008 on battleofcalifornia.blogspot.com

Hey, Brian Burke and Kevin Lowe want to eat each other, go to town, I don't care. But this quote pissed me the fuck off: "Lastly, he's in a pathetic hockey market where they can't get on any page of the newspaper let alone the front page of the ...

Thanks to Lowe, Burke looks like the smartest moron on Earth

The Battle of California found this 7/7/2008 on sports.yahoo.com

In winning six Stanley Cups as a player, Edmonton Oilers GM Kevin Lowe had 1,498 regular-season penalty minutes. There is no quantifiably way to determine how many of those penalties were intentionally committed or instigated by a crafty opponent. But ...

Worst. Episode. Ever.

Posted 7/9/2008 on The Battle of California

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Bettman orders end to Lowe-Burke feud

Posted 7/8/2008 on NHL - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is apparently going to have the last word on the feud between Brian Burke and Kevin Lowe. Bettman, in a conference call Monday with Burke, the Ducks' general manager, and Lowe, the Edmonton Oilers ' GM, ordered them to stop. "The NHL, in response to Kevin Lowe's comments over the weekend, has ordered both Burke and Lowe to both cease and desist," the ...

Bettman Tells Lowe and Burke to Cease Their Comments

Posted 7/7/2008 on IllegalCurve.com

TSN is reporting that NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman spoke with Kevin Lowe and Brian Burke via conference call and ordered them to cease their bickering. A few days after Edmonton Oilers' Kevin Lowe fired back at rival GM Brian Burke, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman tried to pour water on the feud of the two rival team executives. Following comments by Burke over the past year and ...

Burke vs. Lowe, now in desktop wallpaper format!

Posted 7/7/2008 on The Battle of California

They fight, they fight, They fight, they fight, they fight, Fight fight fight, Fight fight fight, Burkie and Kevin Lowe. Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy has done a nice job of breaking down the latest Lowe tirade. I've got some thoughts, too, but those will have to wait (I've written and scrapped two posts about it already) . For now, all you get is a fabulous cartoon from a true "pathetic ...

The Chuckle Hut Presents the Comedy Stylings of Kevin “Laughmaster” Lowe!

Posted 7/7/2008 on Melt Your Face Off

Hey, everybody! Thanks for having me out to the Chuckle Hut! I’m a little new at the comedy game. I spend most of my time being a champion and pissing excellence. But with my track record, I’m sure I’ll be a winner at this, too. Check out this crowd. What a bunch of inbreeds. Can you [...]

The Kevin Lowe and Brian Burke Saga Continues

Posted 7/7/2008 on NHL Digest- Hockey News and Equipment Reviews

Wild Ink Nolan The Minnesota Wild continued their off-season makeover Sunday, signing gritty winger Owen Nolan to a two-year contract worth $5.5 million US. Here is What Wild GM Doug Risebrough had to say about the gritty forward: “Owen Nolan is a true power winger who can score goals, play a physical brand, play either wing and take faceoffs” Nolan should be a nice ...

Brian Burke, Kevin Lowe and Valtteri Filppula

Posted 7/6/2008 on Gorilla Crouch

You know it’s summer when the big news in the NHL is the persistent girlfight between Brian Burke and Kevin Lowe. Lowe has managed to stay above the fray for the most part, basically telling the Anaheim GM to: Apparently Lowe had enough with the latest outburst and responded by calling Burke a moron. Fortunately he didn’t say that “Burkie” dresses like a skank ...

Kevin Lowe vs. Brian Burke

Posted 7/6/2008 on IllegalCurve.com

Special thanks to friskie1986 on YouTube for posting this gem. This could easily be a promo for a WWE Pay-Per-View. Enjoy!

Brian Burke vs. Kevin Lowe - The Fight Continues

Posted 7/5/2008 on On the Pond

Last summer Ducks GM Brian Burke made it very clear that he was upset with how Oilers GM Kevin Lowe went about throwing offer sheets at restricted free agents. Lowe made hefty offers to Buffalo’s Tomas Vanek as well as the Ducks’ own Dustin Penner. Buffalo merely matched Vanek’s offer sheet without blinking, which made Lowe take after his next target, Penner. Penner, ...

Oilers' Lowe fires back at Ducks' Burke

Posted 7/5/2008 on NHL - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports

After a year of enduring the wrath of Brian Burke, Edmonton Oilers general manager Kevin Lowe finally fired back at the Anaheim Ducks ' executive on Friday. In a candid interview with Edmonton's Team 1260, Lowe — who stayed relatively quiet each time Burke went after him over the last 12 months — finally let it all out. "Where do I begin?," started Lowe. "He's a ...

Subsidize me!

Posted 7/5/2008 on Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com

Anaheim Ducks GM Brian Burke has been on a tear of late, lamenting the purported practices of Edmonton Oilers GM Kevin Lowe in messing up the league's salary structures (Lowe was less than amused, and he corrects some of Burke's...

Burke vs. Lowe: the true winner is the audience

Posted 7/5/2008 on The Battle of California

When your GM is compared to Manny, you might be in for a long lame duck year My best laugh of the night did not come from "Trailer Park Boys" (that show, along with hockey, funny pronunciation and maple syrup prove that Canada deserves a little respect). Instead, it came from Kevin Lowe 's slap-fight response to Brian Burke dropping a-bomb quotes for a full year: "Where do I begin?," ...

Lowe blows

Posted 7/5/2008 on Habs Inside/Out

Kevin Lowe is finally fighting back in a heretofore one-sided war of words with Brian Burke. "Where do I begin?" Lowe said in an an intervew on Edmonton sports radio. "He's a moron, first of all." The Edmonton general manager described his Anaheim counterpart as "an underachieving wanna-be in terms of success in the NHL" "He won a Stanley Cup? ...

Kevin Lowe really doesn't like Brian Burke

Posted 7/5/2008 on IllegalCurve.com

From Copper & Blue: Kevin Lowe just had a big-time interview on the Team 1260, and if you want a clue as to how explosive it was, take a look at how the HFBoards folks have responded . 13 pages so far, and the interview was only an hour ago. I missed the original interview, but below are some fun quotes from the 10 minutes that they replayed. On Burke: "He’s a moron, first of all." "He ...

Burke Does It Again

Posted 7/3/2008 on KK Hockey

from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail, Gotta love that Brian Burke. Just when you think the war of words between the Anaheim Ducks general manager and his Edmonton Oilers counterpart, Kevin Lowe, is dying down, Burke re-ignites the controversy by blaming the rise in player salaries among the NHL’s youngest players on Lowe. In an interview published by the Los Angeles Times, Burke ...

Brian Burke blames Kevin Lowe

Posted 7/3/2008 on IllegalCurve.com

From Eric Stephens of the L.A. Times: Burke said it was a reflection of the offer sheets that were handed out last summer by Edmonton General Manager Kevin Lowe, with whom Burke had a bitter feud after the Oilers threw a five-year, $21.25-million deal at Dustin Penner that the Ducks didn't match. "They're all being re-signed at inflated prices," Burke said. "Everything I said a year ago has ...

Ducks' Burke blames Oilers' Lowe for inflated salaries

Posted 7/3/2008 on NHL - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports

After signing free agent forward to a five-year extension worth $26.63 million on Tuesday, Ducks general manager Brian Burke had some choice words about the new salary climate in the NHL and Edmonton Oilers general manager Kevin Lowe. Burke told the Los Angeles Times that the rise in salaries for young players can be traced back to Lowe. "You go right now from entry-level to what used to ...