Finger signing an accident?

[Fighting_Emu]

http://www.thescore.ca/sixpack/index...mp;catID=Leafs

If this is true- it\'s hilarious!

Probably more leaf bashing, but its funny that the original source is from the Colorado media...

[smack]

Unfortunately I wouldn\'t be surprised.
I\'m just laughing that the Sens are having problems giving Meszaros 4million plus when Leafs are giving Finger 3.5. It\'s just sad. I bet you he felt like he won the lottery when he got that contract.

[Anonymous]

I read a real good rebuttal tot his article somewhere, I\'ll go see if I can dig it up.

[DieHardWingsFan]

If that is true then thats pretty dam funny to me. Shows how good Toronto is runing there team.But only time will tell.

[Zorro]

How do you offer a contract to the wrong guy?? This can\'t be true.

Did they think it was Liles they were calling??

The Leafs will be doing the same to Finger next year that they are trying to do with Kubina this year, ship him out and cut payroll..

This has to be the worst signing thus far this season. It is very comparable to Commodore\'s contract with Columbus. BRUTAL........
Z..

\"CAROLINA\", I mean Columbus, sorry, I was thinking about something else at the time. WHOOPS..

[repenttokyo]

read that a few weeks ago, but it\'s way, way too speculative.

Commodore didn\'t sign with Carolina Zorro, he signed with Columbus.

[JagrBomb]

that must be what happens when you are always snooZing, you miss things

[fzusher]

My favorite response to this rumor came from Gord Kirke on Prime Time Sports on Friday:

\"who do you think they were trying to go for, Toe?\"

[mister_mcgoo]

its possible I guess, these bigshots all have personal secretaries, maybe they were considering both Finger and Sauer and his secretary dialed the wrong one...it mighta went like:

Finger: \"Hello\"
Fletcher: \"Hello, this is Cliff Fletcher. We\'ve decided we\'d like to offer you a big fat contract at $14 million for 4 years, what do you think of that\"?
Finger: \"Oh Jesus...I...just...wow, holy crap! Yes, Yes, a thousand times yes!\"
Fletcher: \"That\'s excellent, we knew you\'d be pleased, what\'s your fax number, we\'ll fax the contract over\"
Finger: \"555-222-3333, this is a dream come true\"
Fletcher: \"Wonderful, the Toronto Maple Leafs look forward to many years of mutual success, good day\"

[click]

Fletcher (to self): \"Fletch you sly son of a bitch\"

[hockeyislife]

this is the leafs people....anything is possible

[Shao]

No, this is obviously ridiculous beyond belief.

Even if they thought about the wrong guy, they wouldn\'t go through with the process during the talks just to save face.

Ron has seen him play many times. Cliff would have had conversations with his scouts and his people.

The paperwork, statistical breakdown, game footage, you can\'t sign the wrong guy.

[ultrawhiteness]

Shao wrote:

No, this is obviously ridiculous beyond belief.

Even if they thought about the wrong guy, they wouldn\'t go through with the process during the talks just to save face.

Ron has seen him play many times. Cliff would have had conversations with his scouts and his people.

The paperwork, statistical breakdown, game footage, you can\'t sign the wrong guy.

+1

[BrianSTC]

Shao wrote:

No, this is obviously ridiculous beyond belief.

Even if they thought about the wrong guy, they wouldn\'t go through with the process during the talks just to save face.

Ron has seen him play many times. Cliff would have had conversations with his scouts and his people.

The paperwork, statistical breakdown, game footage, only the Leafs can sign the wrong guy.

Fixed.

[GoHabsGo]

Is there much difference between the 2 players? -Just looking at the comparsion on frozenpool.com.

Name JEFF FINGER KURT SAUER
Position D D
Team COL COL
Age 28 27
2007-2008 Salary $475000 $719250
2007-2008 Cap Hit $475000 $719250
Contract Years Left 4 4
Games 72 54
Goals 8 1
Assists 11 5
Points 19 6
Points Per Game 0.26 0.11
Point Pace 22 9
Multi Point Games 1 0
Zero Point Games 75.0% 88.9%
2007-2008 Salary/Pnt $140000 $0
2007-2008 Caphit/Pnt $140000 $0
PP Goals 1 0
PP Points 2 0
PP TOI/G 01:03 00:05
% Team\'s PP Time/GP 15.4% 1.2%
SH Goals 1 0
SH Points 1 0
SH TOI/G 02:18 03:10
% Team\'s SH Time/GP 39.3% 51.5%
TOI/G 19:57 18:41
% Team\'s Ice Time 32.9% 30.7%
Plus/Minus 12 17
Giveaways 26 23
Takeaways 29 25
Penalty Min 40 41
Hits 121 48
Shots 93 28
Shooting % 8.60 3.57
Accuracy 0.7154 0.6087

[mister_mcgoo]

GoHabsGo wrote:

Is there much difference between the 2 players? -Just looking at the comparsion on frozenpool.com.

apparently the Leafs don\'t think so...zing :lol: