So Toronto snagged 2 former Dallas Stars? Heck yeah!

3rd, just wait for the Lundkvist, 3rd Rd pick for Robertson, Liljgren and 5th Rd pick trade to get announced.

I hate to bearer of bad news, but it’s really obvious some of you guys have never watched a minute of this guy play. Horrible player.

He may be tall and big, but he does not hit whatsoever (number is extremely inflated, divide it by 5 and it’s the actual number of decent hits he does). The only reason he blocks shots is because he’s a liability on the ice, he’ll cause so many headaches from the countless times he costs goals. I’m hoping he isn’t full time cuz if he is, Leafs fans will want to kill him half way through the season.

I wouldn't hold this year's playoffs against him because he was just coming off the injury, and I thought he had a good run with Nashville early in his career that caught my attention, but that was a long time ago and I think you're right that he hasn't done much since then despite being in the playoffs every year. Given that the playoffs have been the Leafs' biggest problem, if they can replace him with a proven playoff performer for a similar cap hit, that would be a good trade.

Lol

If they can get rid of him and replace him with 2cheaper but similar guys thats fine

As said before he aint a berube guy

Lot of interesting guys werent qualified target 2 of them

I like the signing. The big question relates to the health of his knees. Hopefully they did their homework. I read an article that said it was bone on bone in his knee and that their is a risk that his career is over. Hopefully this is not the case.

Great sign. Hakanpää is one of NHL best PK players. Dallas was missing him in the playoffs badly. Bit sad to see that Dallas wasnt able to re-sign him and did use more money to Lyubushkin

Reilly-Tanev
OEL-McCabe
Benoit-Liljegren
Hakanpaa is the 7th

Hakanpaa is big and physical, (not a fighter though), but he is not an above average 3rd pairing guy. But a 34 yr old and two 32 yr olds?

Nice to see TOR actually paying attention to their defense for a change, but not convinced on the goaltending or scoring depth

Your comments are funny because you are hyped about a player with no knees. Strait to Robidas Island.

If this is regarding the report by Steve Simmons… I’d wait till an actual report came out thing elbow

I just saw Steve Dangle talk about this and he might never play again.

Did they sign him just to LTIR him?

apparently he won't play again

I wasn’t aware of that. If it’s true then I don’t know why they would have signed him. If you know about it, Leafs management must know too.

No real harm done if he goes on LTIR anyway. If he’s the only player they have on LTIR and he prevents them from accruing cap space, they can trade him to a team that’s trying to reach the floor or one that is already using LTIR to exceed the cap.

Did not see the stuff about his knee when I commented.....I should have known there would a catch lmao.

steve simmons is the only guy whose brought up the "never playing again" thing. he's not totally trustworthy.

also to note that toronto hasn't officially announced the signing and he's not listed on the leafs roster on the website.

Maybe they made the signing conditional on him passing a medical examination.