{"id":12308,"date":"2017-07-01T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=12308"},"modified":"2017-07-01T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T17:28:23","slug":"ron-hainsey-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/07\/01\/ron-hainsey-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Hainsey Signs with the Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hainsro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ron Hainsey<\/a><\/strong> has signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs on a two-year contract. The deal will earn him $6 million over the next two years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ron Hainsey&#39;s 2-yr deal with the Leafs is worth around $3 M per year<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/881193711295762432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ron Hainsey Signs with the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/h2>\n<p>Hainsey is 36 years old, a veteran signing for the Maple Leafs. The trick with playing him though is that he&#8217;s best suited for a bottom pairing role. When he came to the Penguins, he was playing some bottom six minutes but then he was promoted to the top pair with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dumoubr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Dumoulin<\/a><\/strong> all playoffs. It ended up getting them a championship but he was still <span style=\"background-color: #f6d5d9;\">fatigued\u00a0<\/span>each game and was making way too many careless turnovers playing over 22 minutes a night. He won&#8217;t provide the Maple Leafs with a lot of offence as he really isn&#8217;t known to be an offensive defenseman but he&#8217;ll be good in his own end playing sheltered minutes and he also can be an effective penalty killer as well.<\/p>\n<p>His possession numbers haven&#8217;t always been good as he&#8217;s floated either right below 50% or just at 50%. This season with Pittsburgh he was only 47.8% after coming over from Carolina which isn&#8217;t good at all. He had eight points in his first playoff run of his NHL career, two of them being goals. Signing Hainsey wasn&#8217;t a big move for Toronto but it&#8217;s a good depth move for them as their blueline just got deeper and they can properly use him.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/691016968\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/691016968?et=_D_CIlIbQedtblC8E6LjhQ&amp;tld=ca&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=8V3yxJBaGul7D_aqvwnDnORsjvx0UhQSpTN6mdGIOl4=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Hainsey has left the Pittsburgh Penguins and has signed a deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs, reportedly for two-years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":12413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,18],"tags":[38,662,44,1282,72],"class_list":["post-12308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-leafs","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-ron-hainsey","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"modified_by":"Zach Oswanski","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}