NHL Free Agency Recap: Forwards

/ Free agents, Hockey, Player profile, Scott Maran, Transactional analysis

Going into free agency, we thought Beleskey’s contract was going to be atrocious. There were reports that he was asking for seven years and he turned down a four-year, $16 million contract offer from the Ducks. However, we were quite surprised at how low the cap hit was when it was announced that Boston had signed him. We think the term was one year too long, but overall, it’s a decent contract. If Boston still has any hopes of making the playoffs, which it said it does, it needed a top nine forward.

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NHL Free Agency Recap: Defensemen

/ Free agents, Hockey, Player profile, Scott Maran, Transactional analysis

We think Green will continue to provide a lot of offense for Fantasy hockey owners and might actually improve his point totals on the Wings if he stays healthy. He has shown in previous seasons that he can be one of the league’s most dominating offensive blueliners and we think he will build on last season’s performance.
Even though Green won’t be on the absolute best Power Play in the league anymore, he will surely be quarterbacking Detroit’s dynamic unit. Last season, the Wings’ Power Play was second best in the league with a conversion rate of about 24 per cent (Washington clicked about 25 per cent of the time). Also, both teams scored a similar amount of goals last season (Washington 242, Detroit 235).

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2014 NFL Free Agency Report: Week One Musings

/ Football, Free agents, Josh Johnson, Nick Wagner, Transactional analysis

It does seem odd to us that teams with some major holes to fill are spending big bucks. We find this peculiar because experts say this year’s draft is deeper than ever. However, if NFL teams don’t spend all of their cap money, the league reserves the right to seize the extra dough and distribute it to the players as it sees fit. So cheers to the surplus and here are our winners, held steadies and losers.

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The Wire Troll: Spencer Hawes Finds a New Home

/ Basketball, Bob Raymond, The Wire Troll, Trade Deadline, Transactional analysis

In this edition of The Wire Troll we take a different approach and review the Fantasy impact of the NBA’s trade deadline on Thursday. We didn’t see any of the blockbuster trades that had been rumoured, but several players do have new teams as we enter the home stretch of the regular season. Let’s examine the Fantasy impact of the consummated trades as Fantasy owners look to new dynamics to exploit.

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