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

[Martin Skoula]

I got news for ya. The 4th line (other than Lorentz) is already pretty useless. Dewar is this year's version of Riley Sheahan, Kampf, while a good faceoff and PK guy, is also a black hole offensively, although he's starting to come around a bit. Still way overpaid. And their replacements (Holmberg, Reaves) are even worse. But that's where we're at. I realize it's hard to create a really useful 4th line, ala Czekas, Martin, and Clutterbuck. But there has to be SOME production.

Martin clutterbuck Cizikas were making a combined 8.5 mil at their peak, that’s more than most contenders spend on their entire bottom 6 combined.

Luotsurainen, Lundell, Cousins, Lorentz, Lomberg, Stenlund cost Florida under 8mil combined last year.

 

[arso40]

I disagree that we are playing worse defensemen now when you consider the price versus impact. He made too much for what he brought to the lineup

He’s currently on pace for LESS points in SJ this year than with the leafs last year

He’s also playing for SJ n not the leafs

 

[Stephen]

Yeah, Tre signed Lily so it didn't go to arbitration where the price point would have been higher, which eventually made him more attractive as a trade chip.

Depending on how much you value the picks we got back for Liljegren, an acceptable alternative solution would have been to let him go, and spend his salary combined with Hakanpaa for either a defenseman or something else completely up front.