Dear Mr Burns....
In response to the public lashing from Rangers GM David Burns, League Commissioner and Islander GM Ryan Long was quick to fire a statement back:
``In regards to Mr Burns comments about not hearing back from us regarding his call for an appeal on the Alfredsson suspension, we have twice tried to contact Mr Burns via email, and twice had our emails bounce back with the following error
554 delivery error: dd Sorry your message to davidpjburns@yahoo.ca cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued [#102]. - mta256.mail.re4.yahoo.com.
This is the official email that the league has on our records for Mr. Burns. If he has changed it, we have not been informed, and this is the email on record, as evidenced by the GM contact list. Perhaps if Mr. Burns spent a little less time hopping up Daniel Alfredsson on pure testosterone, and had spent a little more time keeping the league informed of changes in contact details, he would have received his answer by now.
With regards to Mr. Burns' insinuation that he has not been informed of a decision on his application for appeal because I am somehow looking out for the team which I GM is also saddening. Even sadder though, is the fact that this is not the first time Mr. Burns has engaged in such gossip, making broad allegations about my integrity as commissioner and the previous success of this proud franchise. Unlike Mr. Burns, I do not wish to further spread gossip and innuendo publicly, so if Mr. Burns wishes to discuss these matters directly with myself further, I would be happy to do so. If not, I would ask that he keep such rumours and chit-chat confined to his Oprah book club meetings.
On the matter of an appeal to Alfredsson's suspension, there are no grounds to do so, and as such Alfredsson will sit for the full 11 games. . The rule as it stands was implemented at the start of this season, and has been used several times already, and there was no structure for an appeal process specific to lengths of suspensions put into place. It is currently a cut and dry process, and the suspension is determined by the chart in the rulebook, based on type of penalty and the extent of the player's injury.
If Mr Burns, or anyone else in the league would like to call for a review of the rule itself, I am more than happy to discuss this offseason.''
``In regards to Mr Burns comments about not hearing back from us regarding his call for an appeal on the Alfredsson suspension, we have twice tried to contact Mr Burns via email, and twice had our emails bounce back with the following error
554 delivery error: dd Sorry your message to davidpjburns@yahoo.ca cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued [#102]. - mta256.mail.re4.yahoo.com.
This is the official email that the league has on our records for Mr. Burns. If he has changed it, we have not been informed, and this is the email on record, as evidenced by the GM contact list. Perhaps if Mr. Burns spent a little less time hopping up Daniel Alfredsson on pure testosterone, and had spent a little more time keeping the league informed of changes in contact details, he would have received his answer by now.
With regards to Mr. Burns' insinuation that he has not been informed of a decision on his application for appeal because I am somehow looking out for the team which I GM is also saddening. Even sadder though, is the fact that this is not the first time Mr. Burns has engaged in such gossip, making broad allegations about my integrity as commissioner and the previous success of this proud franchise. Unlike Mr. Burns, I do not wish to further spread gossip and innuendo publicly, so if Mr. Burns wishes to discuss these matters directly with myself further, I would be happy to do so. If not, I would ask that he keep such rumours and chit-chat confined to his Oprah book club meetings.
On the matter of an appeal to Alfredsson's suspension, there are no grounds to do so, and as such Alfredsson will sit for the full 11 games. . The rule as it stands was implemented at the start of this season, and has been used several times already, and there was no structure for an appeal process specific to lengths of suspensions put into place. It is currently a cut and dry process, and the suspension is determined by the chart in the rulebook, based on type of penalty and the extent of the player's injury.
If Mr Burns, or anyone else in the league would like to call for a review of the rule itself, I am more than happy to discuss this offseason.''
posted by Longer at 8:58 PM
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