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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 3037995" data-attributes="member: 2012">Hockey HearsayAugust 30, 2006Quinn takes shot at LeafsFormer Maple Leafs head coach Pat Quinn has finally voiced his opinion on his time in Toronto, and depending on where you sit, it wasn't complimentary."What is success today?" Quinn said on CKNW radio over the weekend. "Is it just winning the (Stanley) Cup, or being a team that makes money? ... I don't know who defines success today. We have a lot of those middle managers, so to speak, the presidents that don't have a clue what is going on but might be able to build the logo. But you know what builds the logo? Winning hockey games."Anybody else who says they can come in and make something work, it's like in Toronto, you don't need to be the village monkey to do anything. That thing is sold out when it was just a lousy team. Let the people who are given the job to run the hockey team, let them run it."Despite what seemed an obvious dig at Leafs management, Quinn was quick to backtrack on the comments, saying the Toronto media has misinterpreted his words."That's a false interpretation," Quinn told the Toronto Star. "It's typical of the Toronto media. It was not intended to take any shots. We were talking about the game. It's typical of what happens with radio stations and writers too, they take little bits and use them the way they want to."The interpretation, or whatever is being done, is unfair to the comments that I've made and it's unfair to my feelings about my time in Toronto. It's typical. You say nothing, and it comes out however some jerk wants to put it or you say something and someone will interpret it the way they want."More owners spend, more players payAll the huge contracts the players have been taking from the owners could be akin to buying swampland in Jersey.According to the Toronto Sun, one NHL agent is estimating escrow payments could be as high as 17.5% this season, a 5.5% increase from last year. The escrow payments are the amounts deducted from the players' salaries to cover the owners' over-spending.The escrow payments have essentially idiot-proofed the over-spending ways of NHL general managers. If salaries exceed 54% of league revenues, the players are on hook to cover the shortfall. With salaries increasing league-wide and 'reported revenues' not keeping pace, it's likely all the high-priced contracts are just owners essentially spending players' money.</blockquote>

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