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by Paul on 07/02/08 at 06:57 AM ET
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from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
Hell in a handbasket.
There’s no other way to describe it. When a young man named Jeff Finger (Who?) plays one full season in the NHL, including being a healthy scratch for five of his team’s 10 playoff games, and is rewarded with a contract that pays him a mind-blowing $3.75 million (all figures U.S.) per season – a 733 per cent raise in salary – something’s seriously out of whack.
Somewhere, Bob Goodenow is giggling....
Cliff Fletcher’s no longer the caretaker. He’s in charge indefinitely and there’s a plan in place, or so he says. So we’re all trying to figure it out. Jamal Mayers was brought in because he’s a good guy, and maybe that’s the reason for repatriating Joseph, too, once again establishing the Leafs as the NHL team most likely to employ the same player twice.
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Baroque: We could tell him about the time when Jeff Finger got himself locked in a bathroom in college. That might only encourage him to be silly though. 
Posted by HockeyJoe from NY on 07/02/08 at 06:53 AM ET
Ol’ “Shock and Awe” Fletcher took things literally…
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 07/02/08 at 06:57 AM ET
Guys, Leaf fan in Halifax. Just trying to learn a little more about Finger.
Who do you believe here? Fletcher, Coates, Quenville and Ron Wilson, who say this guy played top minutes against the oppostion’s top lines? Or guys like Pierre MacGuire, Damien Cox, and others in the media who probably don’t stay up long enough to catch an Avs game?
I’m guessing 3.5 was an overpayment, but as you saw yesterday, a guy like Mike Commodore got over 4. So the market is obviously bloated to the hilts.
I know guys like Malik and Baroque would have seen this guy alot more than I have, so....
Thanks guys
Posted by Jim_Korn on 07/02/08 at 07:59 AM ET
bull shit, dont have a clue why the leafs did this.
look at hainsey.
Also look at forward options of kristien huselius, dont let this gem slip away.
Start thinkig of a replacement of Matts Sundin. Were losing our captain, our number one centreman, our leading point getter. Whos gunna be our leading goalscorer. Nik Antropov, Steen, Kulemin? Your kidding me, we dont have a solid goalscorer.
Look for morrison, forsberg, demitra, sakic
Posted by Nate from Toronto on 07/02/08 at 12:52 PM ET
The Leafs blog Down Goes Brown has a scouting report they got from the Avs blog In the Cheap Seats here:
http://downgoesbrown.blogspot.com/2008/07/leafs-sign-jeff-finger.html
Seems pretty balanced.
One of the Avalance fans needs to speak up - I know they are lurking around somewhere. 
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/02/08 at 01:43 PM ET
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Okay, the first time his little (Who?) gimmick was cute, but everyone know the young man is overpaid. Does Cox ever plan on actually learning anything about Jeff Finger other than his name and salary? (I don’t read him regularly, so I don’t know if his writing is normally like this or not.)
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/02/08 at 06:43 AM ET