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Taking It Easy On Fletcher
by Paul on 11/17/08 at 08:40 AM ET
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from The Spin, a blog by Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
Yep, the kid who scored Vancouver’s pretty first goal on Saturday night was given away by Fletcher.
If you agree Wellwood looks reborn in Vancouver, then you’d have to say it was a bad deal by Fletcher.
Yet nobody, but nobody, covering the Wellwood story seemed to bring that point up.
It was, really, yet another example of the extra layer of teflon assigned to Fletcher in his second go around with the hockey club. Nothing bad that has happened since he arrived in January is attributed to him, and anything positive is wildly exaggerated.Even now, with the team having won only seven of 18 games and having lost five of its past seven matches, the tributes to Fletcher’s work are just pouring in by people who have been around the game for a long time and should know better.
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Wow, what a surprise, Cox is unhappy. If/when the Leafs sign Burke (please god NO), he’ll be happy for a week, then finding stuff to whine about again.
The Leafs are “only” as good as they were last year at this time? Yeah, but who expected them to be anywhere above, say, 14th in the conference?
It’d rather have caretaker Fletcher running the show than the complete failure that is Brian Burke.
Posted by Garth on 11/17/08 at 11:47 AM ET