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Hakanpaa actually signs with the Leafs [1 year, $1.47mil AAV]

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If Hakanpaa falls through, the top-5 remaining UFA defencemen in terms of height for no particular reason are:

Jaycob Megna, Jarred Tinordi, Marc Staal, Robert Bortuzzo, Marco Scandella. The latter 2 had previously played on St. Louis under Berube.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
If Hakanpaa falls through, the top-5 remaining UFA defencemen in terms of height for no particular reason are:

Jaycob Megna, Jarred Tinordi, Marc Staal, Robert Bortuzzo, Marco Scandella. The latter 2 had previously played on St. Louis under Berube.
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Washington signed Shattenkirk (which CapFriiendly missed). They have too many dmen and a cap problem. But too many dmen is not a problem.
Maybe the Leafs should grab some insurance.
 
cw said:
Washington signed Shattenkirk (which CapFriiendly missed). They have too many dmen and a cap problem. But too many dmen is not a problem.
Maybe the Leafs should grab some insurance.
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I keep seeing people say Washington has a cap problem, they don't. Backstrom has already announced he's (lti)retired. Oshie hasn't said it yet, but I mean, he's done too. With those two on LTIR they can have a full 23-man roster under the cap.

As for Shattenkirk, I don't see any reports of him signing anywhere. Washington would certainly be an odd choice for him with Carlson, Sandin, and now Chychrun there to handle PP duties. So you may have misread something about that.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
cw said:
Washington signed Shattenkirk (which CapFriiendly missed). They have too many dmen and a cap problem. But too many dmen is not a problem.
Maybe the Leafs should grab some insurance.
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I keep seeing people say Washington has a cap problem, they don't. Backstrom has already announced he's (lti)retired. Oshie hasn't said it yet, but I mean, he's done too. With those two on LTIR they can have a full 23-man roster under the cap.

As for Shattenkirk, I don't see any reports of him signing anywhere. Washington would certainly be an odd choice for him with Carlson, Sandin, and now Chychrun there to handle PP duties. So you may have misread something about that.
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I tried to double check before I posted due to how fluid things still might be.
There was an article posted by Yahoo 3 days ago saying he'd signed ... that turns out it was a repost from 2017. Fooled me.
 
From Nick Kypreos:

https://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/this-maple-leafs-off-season-is-off-to-a-nice-start-theres-a-long-way/article_0a3c3358-37d8-11ef-b454-fb40c384cd11.html said:
As far as Treliving?s promise to add size, he lived up to it by signing six-foot-seven defenceman Jani Hakanp?? to a two-year deal worth $1.5 million per season. On the surface you can look at it as the Leafs swapping Ilya Lyubushkin with Dallas for Hakanp??, at half the price.

But then this signing suddenly got a whole lot more interesting when Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons claimed the 32-year-old Hakanp?? may never play another NHL game due to a knee injury. He played 64 games with the Stars last season, with his last on March 16.

A Dallas source confirmed to me they would have liked to re-sign Hakanp?? but feared he has a ?degenerative knee? that would be tough to manage next season. The Leafs certainly do not feel the same way as their medical team had an extensive look prior to the signing and were very comfortable giving Shanahan and Treliving the green light to move forward.
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Of course, still not really made officially yet by the Leafs.
 
I thought I'd check to see what the Dallas News had to say about this:

Dallas News: June 21, 2024 Stars GM Jim Nill gives injury updates, says no players will require offseason surgery Nill gave updates on Roope Hintz, Chris Tanev and others.
?Were guys banged up? Yes,? Nill told Mike Heika of DallasStars.com, who first reported the news. ?But nothing major that has to be taken care of, so we were very fortunate.?

Hakanp?? suffered the Stars? longest injury of the season. He went down with a lower-body injury in a March 16 game against the Los Angeles Kings and missed the rest of the season. Nill said he had an arthroscopic procedure on his knee and was not able to return in time, but that was the extent of the procedures he?ll need.
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Defenseman Chris Tanev battled multiple ailments from dental work to a lower-body injury late in the conference finals. Tanev suffered an ankle injury during Game 4 in Edmonton, which Nill said was an injured tendon, after blocking a shot by Edmonton Oilers winger Evander Kane, sending the shot ricocheting out of play. He still played in Game 5 and Game 6 and is expected to fully recover.
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More on Tanev since I saw it ...
https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/stars/2024/06/04/stars-defenseman-chris-tanev-provides-update-on-late-playoff-injury-and-recovery-plans/
?Got hit with a puck and next shift I jumped on the ice, took a step and felt something pop in my ankle,? Tanev said Tuesday. ?Obviously, right away, you?re thinking the worst and thinking, ?Oh, man. I just popped my Achilles.? Thankfully it wasn?t that. I just hurt some of the tendons that go behind my ankle. No surgery. I?ll be fine in a couple of weeks, which is awesome.?
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The above is the bulk of what I saw on Hakanp?? injury on that site which traditionally has been one of the better newspaper sites for the Dallas Stars
 
Signed more than 8 days ago.
Still not on the roster.
I don't recall anything quite like it in the NHL ...
 
cw said:
Signed more than 8 days ago.
Still not on the roster.
I don't recall anything quite like it in the NHL ...
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The longer this goes on, the more it feels like the information Simmons relayed is close to the truth. While it could just be a matter of difficulties with Hakanpaa being overseas or otherwise unable to get seen by the Leafs? medical team, you?d have to think that would have been resolved by now. The fact we haven?t heard a peep about it - no leaks, nothing official, not even a whisper or suggestion he?s even been in town - concerns me. Could easily be nothing, but could also easily be that things with his knees are potentially career threatening.
 
bustaheims said:
cw said:
Signed more than 8 days ago.
Still not on the roster.
I don't recall anything quite like it in the NHL ...
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The longer this goes on, the more it feels like the information Simmons relayed is close to the truth. While it could just be a matter of difficulties with Hakanpaa being overseas or otherwise unable to get seen by the Leafs? medical team, you?d have to think that would have been resolved by now. The fact we haven?t heard a peep about it - no leaks, nothing official, not even a whisper or suggestion he?s even been in town - concerns me. Could easily be nothing, but could also easily be that things with his knees are potentially career threatening.
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Imagine that there is and was nothing wrong with his knees for next season ...
Why would it take this long to get his name on the roster and why wouldn't the Leafs jump on it to shoot down the errant media report?
Actions speak louder than words.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/sunhornby/status/1823749553675284892

Well Hakanpaa definitely exists, that's promising.
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Read: He's done like last Friday's dinner.  Bummer.
 
https://x.com/TLNdc/status/1828507781667914002

Nothing particularly new here but CJ does note that Hakanpaa's contract was never officially registered with the league which I think was suspected but never confirmed yet.

Obviously a tricky situation especially since his signing or not signing would have dominoes in terms of how much available cap space the team has before the season starts.
 
Well, glad he's signed. Now I guess we just wait to see if he can actually skate at training camp.

Funny enough I was playing with potential rosters earlier today and found one I liked but it would have been over the cap (assuming Pacioretty at league minimum plus performance bonuses and Hakanpaa at $1.5mil):

Knies-Matthews-Nylander
McMann-Domi-Marner
Pacioretty-Tavares-Cowan
Dewar-Kampf-Jarnkrok
Reaves

Plus the 7D+2G that would have put the team just over $4k above the cap ceiling. Getting Hakanpaa at $1.47mil instead of $1.5mil obviously makes something like this, and presumably other potential rosters Treliving+Berube have on a whiteboard somewhere, a little more feasible.
 
This is good

Rielly - Tanev
McCabe - Hakanpaa
Ekman-Larsson - Liljegren

And with Tanev/Hakanpaa likely to hit IR a bit, Benoit is right there. McCabe and Ekman-Larsson can play either side.

Or we actually follow through on a Robertson+Liljegren/Jarnkrok package for a 3C.
 
herman said:
Or we actually follow through on a Robertson+Liljegren/Jarnkrok package for a 3C.
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I really just don't see a team giving up their 3C a week or whatever prior to training camp.

The one possible option is still Ross Colton in Colorado. A Kampf+ for Colton swap would interestingly enough give Colorado just barely enough cap space to eventually activate both Landeskog and Nichushkin when they're ready to return. Problem of course is the Leafs can't afford Colton at his full $4mil but Colorado also can't take on any more cap hit. So we'd need to move additional pieces elsewhere or get a 3rd team to retain on Colton. But he's got 3 more years on his deal so retaining on that could be pricey.

Ultimately I think the only cap move will be eventually moving the newly signed Robertson and just starting the season with what we've got from there.
 
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