Did the Leafs Confuse Sauer with Finger or am I Missing Something Here?

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Doc...you've pulled the wrong tooth
Published 7/2/2008 by MetroGnome (noreply@blogger.com) at Five Hole Fanatics
... Dan Tolensky noticed as well. And he's come up with a rather interesting interesting thesis: maybe Fletcher mistook Finger for Sauer? ...

How'd We Do?
Published 7/4/2008 by eyebleaf (noreply@blogger.com) at Sports And The City
... Just when I thought I was happy about it, I went and read this. It was, needless to say, extremely disheartening. Could the Maple Leafs have actually confused Jeff Finger with Kurt Sauer? Like Kevin Garnett said a few weeks ago, "anything is possible." I mean, we're talking about the Toronto Maple Leafs here. If DeVry's motto is "We're serious about success," then the Toronto Maple Leafs' motto is "We're serious about incompetence." Being a Leafs fan has taught me that I can never, ever, ever, put anything past the clowns that run this franchise. They are capable of ...

2nd & Short: Andrea Bargnani, coverboy
Published 7/4/2008 by Eric Koreen at Posted Sports : Basketball
... "Did the Leafs Confuse Sauer with Finger or am I Missing Something Here?" — Headline on hockeybuzz.com prefacing a detailed article in which writer Daniel Tolensky breaks down reasons why he's convinced the Toronto Maple Leafs signed the wrong Colorado Avalanche unrestricted free agent defenceman. It's just another frighteningly convincing argument as to why Cliff Fletcher might be the wrong general manager for the team. Also see: ...

A Little Bit Mo' On Mo
Published 7/7/2008 by JP (noreply@blogger.com) at Japers' Rink
... and more of them. So did the 'Canes overpay on Gleason? My guess is that in four years, that deal's going to look very good for Carolina. More importantly, though, one wonders how (if at all) that deal might impact the Caps' negotiations with Morrisonn. Mo is probably not worth $2.75 million per season right now ( Jeff Finger ...

Leafs Finger Wrong Defenceman?
Published 7/16/2008 by Daniel Santos at The Six Pack
... takes it a step further and does thorough analysis of comments made by Cliff Fletcher and Ron Wilson about Finger and statistical information provided by ...

Did the Leafs sign the wrong player?
Published 7/17/2008 by Ashley Gallant at Faceoff Factor
... public, I think me and most of the hockey world had the same reaction: What?? How can the Leafs sign a 28-year-old rookie defenceman to a 4 year, $14M contract when he was a healthy scratch for half of Colorado’s playoff games last year? Then, my friend Sarah sent me a couple of links that say that the Leafs may have signed the wrong player. Maybe they meant to sign Kurt Sauer instead of Jeff Finger. Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse for Toronto… Daniel Tolensky of hockeybuzz.com was confused about the signing when he heard Cliff Fletcher and Ron Wilson’s ...

Yotes Notes: 2008-09 Schedule & the New D
Published 7/17/2008 by Richard Nickerson at Coyote Corner
... has been posting some excellent articles and this week takes a look at the new-look Coyotes defense.  He cites another article by Danny Tolensky on hockeybuzz.com that compares the Sauer signing to a big deal that Toronto gave another Colorado defender, Jeff Finger.  The Maple Leafs gave Finger a four-year deal for $14 million while telling their fans that Finger was the Av’s key “shut-down” defender who played the majority of minutes against top Western Conference forwards like Joe Thornton, Jerome Iginlaz and the Sedin twins.  But in fact it ...