Robert Hagg Re-signs with the Flyers (report: 2 years at $1.15 million cap hit per season)

[Angry Hockey Dad]

Not surprised by the signing. I don't mind Hagg as a 3rd pairing dman. Will be interesting to see the pairings come opening night

 

[Magua]

Hfboards server crash incoming.

 

[TheKingPin]

As always it’s not the player, it’s the coach. Fire Hakstol or at least don’t re sign hakstol.

 

[Beef Invictus]

The biggest issue is. He won’t be used as a 6/7.

Nope, neither will MacD, the other 6/7 we have.

 

[Rich Nixon]

I dunno, Coatesy says he should've been in Calder consideration because he led all rookies in hits and blocked shots by mid-February.

 

[sa cyred]

Biasness aside, this is exactly true.

 

[Cootsfanclub]

I don't think Hagg has much room to grow so this is a pretty good deal for both parties. I don't mind it one bit, wouldn't be surprised if Hextall moves him for a draft pick after someone pushes for a roster spot.

 

[deadhead]

The only way Hagg sees top four minutes is Sanheim spent the summer on the beach getting sand kicked on him and shows up brain dead, Myers sprains his pinkie in TC, and Gudas can't find his mojo.

 

[Rebels57]

Biasness aside, this is exactly true.

Charlie is pretty good at tweeting reasonable takes instead of hot ones.

Another nice thing about this contract is how tradeable it is.

 

[Striiker]

The problem is that no matter how good other players are, this idiot coach will overplay our worst defensemen because he fetishizes hits and grit.

Doesn’t matter that he’s a liability in all three zones and we have 7 or 8 defensemen who are already clearly better than him. He’ll be overused because the coach can’t do his job.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

Completely fine deal for a depth defenseman entering his 23 year old, 2nd NHL season. People forget his playing time actually went down in the second half & he was a healthy scratch in the playoffs.

 

[Hockeypete49]

Nice deal by Ron!

 

[Tripod]

Good deal.

Cheap, low term. Paid as a #6 Dman.

 

[Striiker]

All kidding aside though, this is a bad signing. The guy played like a middle of the lineup AHLer and got more than league minimum. It won’t make a difference to the cap, but you can’t say this isn’t an overpayment.

Even if someone still thinks he can improve, despite all logic being against that, the fact is he B O M B E D hard last year and didn’t get paid what he’s actually worth.

The biggest issue is it opens the door for Hakstol to continue being a huge detriment by giving him another brick to throw into the washing machine.

 

[46zone]

No problem with the deal. He's been paid like what he is, a 6/7th defenseman. Hopefully Morin can get healthy and take this JAG's job.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Good deal.

Cheap, low term. Paid as a #6 Dman.

And will be used as a top 4

 

[flyersfan187]

Good 6/7 right now with hope that he can improve his outlet passes to become a nice number 5 that can pk. Solid deal.

 

[wankstifier]

O'Connor still can't decide who Hagg is?

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

It’s during the long summer I forget how irrational the hatred for certain players can be.

Hagg is OK and that’s fine. He doesn’t have to be a top pairing guy or even second pairing. The glass thing he constantly does is clearly coaching, he’s an adequate serviceable cheap third pairing guy. We don’t always need to have a scapegoat.

 

[captainpaxil]

After logging the minutes he did as a rookie hagg was due for more than the minimum. Its fair money for a 3rd pairing guy. If hagg improves this year it'll look even better.

 

[Striiker]

When people say "3rd pairing" or "6/7" do they realize that he was used as a top 4 defensemen last year?

And ability-wise he was AHL level.

So he's neither of those things, in either usage or ability.

 

[phil162888]

Morin and Hagg are great signings for #6/#7 roles. Cut bait with Gudas and Macdonald and get a real top 4 dmen and this team is going to be lethal on the back end

Ghost/Provy
Myers/????? (elite top 4 )
Sanheim/Morin
Hagg

 

[BernieParent]

I allowed a small part of my brain to ponder the possibility that Hagg would go unsigned / get dealt. That was not realistic. The best that could be hoped for is that he get a small, short-term deal. That's what he got.

 

[Embiid]

My personal feelings on the player aside, it’s lower than I expected. Hextall’s been good with his own RFAs.

Much better than Holmgren with his throw in NMC's and NTC's.

 

[dats81]

Third pairing money for a third pairing player who is still young and coachable (to a degree it makes him play worse) and he remains a RFA once the contract is up.

It's not like Hägg was even blocking Myers from graduating ...