More data and analytical tools for evaluating talent have pretty well served to make it harder than ever to truly screw up as an NHL executive. Sure Mikael Granlund Jersey , bad contracts are still handed out and draft fails happen, but few talent-for-talent trades nowadays are so bad as to be considered entirely one-sided in nature. The transition has helped maintain some degree of competitive balance while ensuring for at least relatively competent club management across the league, but if we're being honest here, it has also taken some of the fun out of trade evaluation.

But fear not - past executive mistakes continue to reverberate around the NHL and are even still felt within the league's current power structure. One-time hapless organizations like the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Islanders aren't giving away first round picks like they may have in the past, but they still have to endure the sins committed by forebearers like John Ferguson Jr and Mike Milbury. Whether the average general manager has grown smarter or not, bad trades will still happen and, in the meantime, we still have the physical proof of past one-sided transactions across the league.

The thing about a one-sided trade is that it can stick with your club, for better or for worse. Time passes and players move on, but a losing gamble that results in an albatross contract http://www.officialavalanche.com/authentic-adidas-j.t.-compher-jersey , a missed opportunity or a costly talent loss can linger just as long as adding a star on the cheap can provide a major boost for your team. Whether these trades bring back fond memories or open up old wounds, here are 15 lopsided deals that involve players who are still plying their trade in the NHL.

Even if the current change to the kickoff amounts to a half-measure toward the elimination of the kickoff altogether, teams will have to figure out how to implement the new formation in a way that enhances the overriding effort to win, for as long as the new formation is in place. And coaches already have begun to brainstorm regarding the opportunities created by an alignment aimed at reducing injuries.

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That’s what the best coaches do: Identify the opportunities and figure out how to capitalize on them, while also figuring out how to prevent opposing coaches from doing the same.

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The experimentation will continue during offseason workouts and training camp. Publicly, teams will be experimenting with the new kickoff procedures via 65 preseason games.

And then the regular season will begin, and who knows what will happen? Teams may decide when kicking off to always bang the ball out of the end zone, conceding the 25. Teams may decide when receiving to always take a knee.

Some teams may decide to try to figure out how to pin the opponent deep, with quick, athletic players who can slip past the blockers and converge on the returner and the two men who will be back there to block for him. Some teams may decide to try to drop a quasi-onside kick between the eight who must be within 15 yards of the kickoff point and the three who are lined up deeper. Plenty of other possible approaches can be attempted, with sky kicks William Karlsson Jersey , squib kicks, line drives, positional kicks, or whatever kind of strange hops and spins that a kicker can put on the ball.

If nothing else, it will make a play that was happening less and less a little more interesting. And it could be wise to enjoy it while it lasts, because it’s still very possible that the kickoff will end up becoming one less way that the foot will be used in football.

For more on the kickoff and other rule changes, check out Friday’s #PFTPM podcast, which includes a one-hour discussion with former NFL V.P. of officiating and FOX rules analyst Mike Pereira.

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