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

[SprDaVE]

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I don’t want to hear about this guy the rest of the season. What a waste of time.

 

[Stephen]

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.

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]

What does Ryan Graves make?

 

[Maple Leaf]

terminate contract
not healthy
scammed us

 

[conFABulator]

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.

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.

 

[Evilhomer]

terminate contract
not healthy
scammed us

I can't believe this guy somehow passed a physical. Was it done by Dr. Nick?

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Klingberg has now played as many games this year as Hakanpaa lol.

 

[MK78]

terminate contract
not healthy
scammed us

Nah, the Leafs scammed themselves. there were so many reports that the guy had no knees left and they went until september to actually sign him?