Confirmed with Link: Leafs don't sign D Jani Hakanpaa to a 2 years, $1.5M AAV
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rumman
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with their sticks.........
IF his leg is good I'll be over the moon, Lilly's going to be this year's TJ Brodie, book it..........
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A team that sees him as a top 4 RHD. A team that needs to get to the cap floor. A team that can offer him more minutes.
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All this Liljegren trade talk?!?!
How about we have 7 NHL dmen so when we have to go 9 or 10 deep in the season it is not so bad.
We also will have Hakanpaa coming off the knee injury and some older guys like Tanev, OEL and even McCabe that might need a breather or an injury break.
Our depth chart for this season as I see it goes...
Rielly
Tanev (R)
OEL
McCabe
Liljegren (R)
Hakanpaa (R)
Benoit
Timmins (R)
Mermis
Myers (R)
Rifai
Niemela (R)
Kokkonen
Webber
Mattinen (R)
That's pretty good and nice balance (R/L), nice size and grit added. It doesn't include the guys who have zero chance of playing in the NHL this year; Chadwick and Danford. I guess we could lose Timmins in waivers.
How about we have 7 NHL dmen so when we have to go 9 or 10 deep in the season it is not so bad.
We also will have Hakanpaa coming off the knee injury and some older guys like Tanev, OEL and even McCabe that might need a breather or an injury break.
Our depth chart for this season as I see it goes...
Rielly
Tanev (R)
OEL
McCabe
Liljegren (R)
Hakanpaa (R)
Benoit
Timmins (R)
Mermis
Myers (R)
Rifai
Niemela (R)
Kokkonen
Webber
Mattinen (R)
That's pretty good and nice balance (R/L), nice size and grit added. It doesn't include the guys who have zero chance of playing in the NHL this year; Chadwick and Danford. I guess we could lose Timmins in waivers.
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I haven't heard that. There were lots of rumours about what was happening. Dreger is reporting that we are about to sign him. He was correct about Robertson.
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Looking at his stats his dZS% over 3 seasons with Dallas was 73.9. In the playoffs it was 83.5, lol, he's a goalies best friend.
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The fact that it has gone on this long makes me think they will sign him unless there is simply no way that he can be medically cleared to play. Otherwise, he would have signed somewhere else by now.
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Which it seems he may have been correct about also... just took much longer to confirm.
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OEL is two spots too high. He is the 5th best Dman of that group. I would put Benoit ahead of Hakanpaa even with his defensive numbers. Benoit paired with McCabe they were the 46th best dman pairing last year. Not sure if that is all McCabe carrying Benoit. He plays a simple game but skates really well. His struggles in the playoffs aside.
One player to watch is Myers. If he can stay healthy and regain his confidence to the level he had in Philly he could be this year's Benoit. Injuries have really hurt his skating not sure if he can get it back.
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It is hard to rate them numerically when they play different games.
Rielly is #1, unless you're rating defending the rush, in which case he's probably behind Benoit.
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Thanks, I don't disagree with your adds and edits. I worry that because Benoit was fine and he and McCabe formed a good pairing that we might be overrating Benoit a bit. He is a great bottom pair guy on a good deal but I see some people put him top four and I don't ever see that.
A healthy Hakanpaa is better than Benoit IMO, let's see if we are a healthy Hakanpaa. I think OEL is going to surprise a lot of people here, I hope Liljegren does too.
Myers is a guy I was happy we signed. He is going to have to beat out a lot of guys to make this team, he could see call ups when injuries hit.
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Mccabe is 3rd but oel is 4th best dman of that group and its not even close
That's where I'm coming from. It was just odd.
Hopefully he's healthy to play because I think he would be a good addition if so.
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...and because a previous move in another city didn't work out we can distort what he is doing here so he looks incompetent?
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