Leafs Get The Finger
by Greener on Jul 1, 2008 6:10 PM EDT
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PrintThere. I beat the entire Sun media empire to the worst pun that Jared of London never made. Who the hell is Jeff Finger you may well ask. Well, go ahead and ask. No, I'll ask. Who in the hell is Jeff Finger? Here's another question: How in the hell do the the Leafs give a guy who's most notable for having the same name as a body part $14 million over four years? I can now think of other body part names to use on him and Cliff Fletcher if this turns out to be another McCabe situation. At least with McCabe, he had a few great years before he cashed in. Jeff Finger? OK, a +22 in 94 career NHL games is a good stat. But I think the more important thing to look at there is the part where I said "94 CAREER NHL GAMES". That means ever. That's only 94 more games than I've played. Thank God PPP is paying me for this. PPP is paying me for this...right?
In other news I am now a bit more of a fan of the C. Avalanche now that our homestyle Darcy Tucker has signed with them. Aside from the benefits of playing for a good organization, This means we'll all get spared the indignity of seeing Darc play the Leafs 20 times a year which would have happened if he'd signed in the east. Once again, Darcy Tucker is thinking about our well being.
I'm also pleased that Andrew Raycroft was picked up quickly. Raycroft always impressed me as a class guy, always took his struggles seriously and never lashed out at the team or played a blame game. It just goes to show that if you play with class and dignity, the NHL community sees it, and is willing to give players another chance. Somewhere Ray Emery isn't listening. Raycroft is a better goalie than he looked last season, and I'm happy that he hasn't had to re-build his career from scratch.
UPDATE: LEAFS GET THE HAGMAN
OK, I mean, that's not even a pun. Hagman, a second generation NHL'er gets 4 years for $12,000,000.
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Finger
With the Finger signing, that HAS to mean McCabe or Kubina is gone right? If not, who the hell are they going to sit? Maybe they’re thinking they won’t have to sit anyone once Cola gets injured in training camp.
by Evening News Team on Jul 1, 2008 6:22 PM EDT reply actions
Damnit
I was saving that one for my post tomorrow!
I’m glad Tucker got picked up so fast, and by a team that I don’t hate on top of that. I can now cheer for him totally guilt free (with no bad aftertaste).
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Good call on Raycroft
Even though he was a horror show in net, Raycroft was one of the most decent players to ever play for the team. It’s too bad he seemed to take each loss so personally.
I’ve been stealing your paycheck. Raycroft sucks ass.
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Relief...
Thank god you didn’t use that on our, I mean, MY blog.
what are you talking about? Thats comedy gold right there!
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haaaagmaaaan
Holy Crap on a stick!
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by JaredFromLondon on Jul 1, 2008 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Now the Finger deal makes sense.
It was a set up, to make me think ”$3M sounds pretty reasonable for Hagman”.
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Hagman had fewer points than Tucker. Greeeeeat.
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Tank
Cliff is taking this tanking for Tavares thing serious, but by got, if there was one NTC handed out today….
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Okay. Here’s something I don’t understand about free agency. So, say you’re the ny rangers and you need a defenseman. But there aren’t any available. Why on earth do you pay no. 1 d-man money to someone who clearly isn’t worth it? Who the hell do you think you’re kidding? Are you just trying to look like you’re doing something? Even if it’s something stupid? And Cliff, is Finger really worth 3.5 million just cause there was no one else available? Really just couldn’t survive without filling that all important 5th or 6th defenseman slot? Because honestly, I think we could probably have managed without him. Even if we are somehow able to flip Bryan McStubbornWon’tListenToAnyTradeOffersEvenIfThey’reDesignedAlmostSolelyToMakeMeHappyCabe, it’s still not a good deal. We still overpaid for some poor sod who’ll almost certainly underperform. And we leaf fans … well, sometimes we can get a little nasty with players who underperform.
Speaking as a dude who sees a lot of western conference hockey, I’m not too upset by the Hagman + Finger pickups.. Seem a little expensive, but both guys are good workers.. But damn I was looking at some of the other FA signings.. Rangers and Chicago have got wayyy too much money!
Really happy with the Cujo signing though, great to have him back.
To be honest I think Toronto should have moved Vesa at the deadline for ridiculous draft picks, and let Raycroft start all year.
Then we could all buy Tavares jerseys and watch him turn into the next Daigle.
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