Confirmed Signing with Link: [TOR] D John Klingberg signs with the Maple Leafs (1 year, $4.15M)

[Toronto makebeleifs]

It was always an odd signing to bring in a PP specialist to a team that was ranked 2nd in the NHL on the PP last year.

LTIR is the best possible outcome for the Leafs if that's a possibility.

LTIR might be the best possibility for his career moving forward too. I honestly hope he's injured (not in a malicious way), because he at least has some course of action to fix things. He can then have his agent sprinkle magic dust on a GM next season to convince them the injury is gone and he's back to form.

 

[Suntouchable13]

It was always an odd signing to bring in a PP specialist to a team that was ranked 2nd in the NHL on the PP last year.

LTIR is the best possible outcome for the Leafs if that's a possibility.

No, not necessarily for that but scoring from the back end was non-existent (other than Rielly). I think it hurt them in the 2nd round against Florida.

 

[Jannik Hansen]

LTIR might be the best possibility for his career moving forward too. I honestly hope he's injured (not in a malicious way), because he at least has some course of action to fix things. He can then have his agent sprinkle magic dust on a GM next season to convince them the injury is gone and he's back to form.

I feel like that option is out the window after his poor season last year. This was the year he needed to convince people he's back to form.

 

[StreetHawk]

I feel like that option is out the window after his poor season last year. This was the year he needed to convince people he's back to form.

Took the Ana money cause his agent and he messed up not securing a long term deal thinking he could get more. Flat cap era and easy enough to figure out team’s rfa Situation and budget a number for those guys. Only so many teams would be even able to give Klingberg an $8 mill AAV over 7 years and still field the 23 man roster.

Unless you are virtually certain you’re getting an offer from one of those teams that was a mistake ot pass on the Dallas offer.

Going to Anaheim exposed his defensive decencies so much that teams don’t want him for any term.

 

[Scintillating10]

There is speculation that Klingberg might end up on LTIR and his career may be in jeopardy.

Chris Johnston says John Klingberg is facing an uncertain future due to a nagging injury

John Klingberg's struggles since joining the Leafs have been well-docu...

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Sorry to hear about Klingberg. But I figured his injury was substantial by way play fell off

 

[HockeyVirus]

Sorry to hear about Klingberg. But I figured his injury was substantial by way play fell off

He had a pretty emotional media session in Sweden where he was unable to play at home due to his injury and it really ate him up. I feel bad for him as a person even if this helps the Leafs

 

[Toronto makebeleifs]

I feel like that option is out the window after his poor season last year. This was the year he needed to convince people he's back to form.

I feel like you're over estimating the good decision making capabilities of NHL GM's. This being an off-season where (at the moment) the top free agent defenceman are Montour, ghost, and dumba... Someone will bite on klingberg. This is a league where Zach Bogosian still, somehow, has a job.

 

[Michoulicious]

New Robidas Island citizen.

If he traveled with the team, looks unlikely that it is a career ending injury. He would have somehow been to do MRI/seek specialist attention in Sweden? Unlikely. Probably he'll do a Matt Murray and make a surgery inseason then try to come back next year.

Leafs dodge a bullet.