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While many teams have wrapped up prospect camps and have started into training camps, there was an interesting contract handed out this week that got lost in the mix. The New York Rangers locked up their young shut-down defenseman, Marc Staal, in a 5-year deal worth just under $4 million per year. Much like we did [...]   For those of us that believe outshooting the opponent is the most surefire way to victory in the NHL, the LA Kings signing of Alexei Ponikarovsky should set off fireworks. In his book, Moneyball, Michael Lewis referred to Kevin Youkilis’ as “The Greek God of Walks”. For NHL GMs, Ponikarovsky could be Ukrainian for “Net-peppering Ninja”. I [...]  A review of Kovalchuk’s contract that I wrote for Puck Prospectus on Wednesday. I was away for a few days so didn’t have time to share it here until now. Front Office Focus – Is the NHL doing the Devils a Favor with the Kovalchuk contract? All H-E-double-hockey-sticks has broken loose with the NHL rejecting Ilya Kovalchuk’s [...]  Yesterday over at Behind the Net, Gabe made a post about Mikko Koivu’s contract extension with the Wild. In the comments, there was some great debate about how the contract compared to those signed by Tomas Plekanec and Nicklas Backstrom. Given that I’d written up reviews of both contracts here and here, I figured it [...]  Here is the story as published on Puck Prospectus today. Front Office Focus – The Flames Free Agent Moves Free agency frequently brings a variety of deals that range from astute to downright absurd. This year’s free agency period was no different. While there are a variety of teams that have appeared to alter their talent level significantly [...]  We’re almost a week into Free Agency at this point and there is no way to declare who has won or lost, just like we should never declare the winner of the NHL draft two days after it’s happened. That said, we can definitely evaluate the dollars spent at various positions and the deals that seem [...] Here is the latest analysis I wrote for the great team at Puck Prospectus. Feel free to read it over there with this link or continue reading below. The reason I wanted to explore the contract value was the initial reaction so many people had to the dollar figure. I personally felt it was WAY too much [...]  At this time of year, we all seem to constantly refresh our screens, search twitter or leave the TV on NFL Network to find out which free agents have landed with each team and how much money they got. Inevitably we get into arguments about whether certain players were worth the money or not. Marty and [...] |
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