Confirmed with Link: Leafs don't sign D Jani Hakanpaa to a 2 years, $1.5M AAV

[Cap'n Flavour]

How would that pairing move the puck tho?

Irrelevant because they're never going to have the puck in the first place.

 

[rumman]

How would that pairing move the puck tho?

with their sticks.........

If they trade Lilly after signing a player with one leg, the #firetre has my permission to commence.

IF his leg is good I'll be over the moon, Lilly's going to be this year's TJ Brodie, book it..........

 

[Ianturnedbull]

If he is overpaid then who is going to take him?

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.

 

[conFABulator]

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.

 

[darrylsittler27]

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 Hakanpaa
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.

I thought Hakanpaa fell through. No insurer.

 

[conFABulator]

I thought Hakanpaa fell through. No insurer.

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.

 

[The Shrike]

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.

 

[Rude Dog]

Need to change the title of this thread to may or may not sign...

 

[Evilhomer]

Need to change the title of this thread to may or may not sign...

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.

 

[rumman]

Need to change the title of this thread to may or may not sign...

Only in Leaf land…….

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Nylander hasn’t even peaked yet… not time to panic. Not even close.

Marner isn’t productive in the playoffs. He should be traded to a rebuilding team in a small media market that needs offense…say a Columbus.

This

Marner can have Gadreau’s cap money

 

[Leaf Fans]

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.

He also had the original Hakanpa signing

 

[conFABulator]

He also had the original Hakanpa signing

Which it seems he may have been correct about also... just took much longer to confirm.

 

[Leaf Fans]

Which it seems he may have been correct about also... just took much longer to confirm.

He may have.

 

[BobClarkesfrontteeth]

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.

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.

 

[ULF_55]

How would that pairing move the puck tho?

Prunes? (After they eat it.)

Off the glass and out.

 

[ULF_55]

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.

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.

 

[conFABulator]

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.

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.

 

[thusk]

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.

Mccabe is 3rd but oel is 4th best dman of that group and its not even close

 

[JEI]

Incompetent isn't the word I'd use, but it's odd to have the name reported by the GM before signing.

Feels like the Leafs thought they were closer to the signing than they were. Could be players fault, could be GMs fault, likely a mixture of both

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.

 

[Maple Leaf]

This makes perfect sense.

However, it does not jive with the narrative that Treliving is a bumbling fool and his incompetence was outed most recently by Steve Simmons.

i mean tre has a great track record of gifting florida Tkachuk and a cup

 

[conFABulator]

i mean tre has a great track record of gifting florida Tkachuk and a cup

...and because a previous move in another city didn't work out we can distort what he is doing here so he looks incompetent?

 

[MJ65]

Big deal?