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Confirmed with Link: Leafs sign defenceman Jani Hakanpää (1 year, $1.47M) (official)

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conFABulator said:
Thanks for the response, and I can see where you're coming from. That said, it seems like we fundamentally disagree on some key points, which makes it hard to find common ground in this discussion. From my perspective, the arbitration process and the writing on the wall with Berube made it clear he wasn’t a fit in the system. Given those factors, I don’t think the signing was a bad one.

I also don’t believe we’re missing him at all, and I’m not sure there was a realistic scenario where we could have gotten more in return. To me, he was a 6th or 7th defenseman in Berube’s system, and we got pretty decent value for him in the trade. As for the contract, I just don’t see how it hurt the team in the end.
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Liljegren still isn't very good on the San Jose Sharks... more opportunity, minimal offense. We needed him to pan out and be a good RHD for us with transition game prowess, maybe grow into PP2 duty, but that's not him.

Hakanpaa certainly has been a non factor and there's definitely opportunity cost that has been lost due to signing Liljegren and Hakanpaa. We could have gotten a better defenseman for the combined cost. However, if he ever gets healthy, he's basically a Lyubushkin level addition at the deadline for free. And those things cost picks. So it's been a waste of time but could still pan out.
 
Stephen said:
Liljegren still isn't very good on the San Jose Sharks... more opportunity, minimal offense. We needed him to pan out and be a good RHD for us with transition game prowess, maybe grow into PP2 duty, but that's not him.

Hakanpaa certainly has been a non factor and there's definitely opportunity cost that has been lost due to signing Liljegren and Hakanpaa. We could have gotten a better defenseman for the combined cost. However, if he ever gets healthy, he's basically a Lyubushkin level addition at the deadline for free. And those things cost picks. So it's been a waste of time but could still pan out.
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I do think they tried to trade Liljegren in the off season and could not. So, they signed him and got some assets and some cap space they needed, eventually.
 
Totally cooked. Oh well, hopefully he gets well enough to enjoy the rest of his life healthy. He’s getting paid -1.5m almost to hang out with family at home because his agent is a genius
 
horner said:
I still think it was dumb for us not to sign Klingberg and waive Hankanpaa
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Or Door # 3 and sign neither, who in a forward thinking setting and now in hindsight are/were moves of minimal chance to succeed. Can't hang our victories or losses on these two assets or the decision to explore them, because around the league, there's not a lot of comparison at that bottom of the barrel rummaging, because as a practice it's an outlier all the way around.

I say no harm no foul on Treliving trying. It's money, something we as a fanbase moan about the club not maximizing enough. More often than not, the result will be underwhelming, but we can't say Treliving didn't try.

I'm more disappointed Klingberg didn't work out for us.

Let me caveat (i.e. cover my a...) that if JH makes one good play in the playoffs that positively affects continuing from one round to the next (singularly so), then the money spent will have been justified.

Heck...If Ryan Reaves does the same thing, then same thing; Fwiw, I think the money spent on Hankanpaa was better spent than it was on Reaves. And this despite my hopes otherwise.
 
Leafs flexing their financial might by signing a player who is/was done in order to gain favour with the agent.

Who else does JH's agent represent? His handout may have just been a table setter....
 
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