This week we are returning to our playoff series with the second part of our first-round review. Last week we covered the teams eliminated from the Western Conference: St Louis Blues, Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings, and Minnesota Wild. This week we are moving on to talk about the Eastern Conference so we will be [...]
The first round of the playoffs is officially wrapped and it is time to turn our attentions, at long last, to those series. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see if there is anything to learn about a player’s performance. We will go round by round and look at [...]
We are back this week to finish our MVP series. We have completed reviews for centers, right and left wingers, and defensemen. Today, we will be moving on to goalies. The process will be much the same as skater articles, though using different categories and scoring metrics. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is [...]
This week we are continuing our MVP series with defensemen. I have included a small snippet from the original article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes of this article, [...]
This week, we are continuing our MVP series by moving to left wings. I have included a small snippet from the original article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes [...]
This week we are continuing our MVP series with right wings. I have included a small snippet from last week’s article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes of this [...]
We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be taking a look back over full season data and find out which players provided the [...]
With the season wrapping up I wanted to take a moment for what has become an annual tradition over here on Frozen Tool Forensics. We are using our regular season stats to look forward to playoff leagues and see if we can predict some unexpected playoff heroes. This all started back when I wrote the [...]
Back in August and then again in October we spent some time digging into players that might have been positioned to break out based on their 2023-24 seasons. Now that NHL action is wrapping up, I want to take a look back and see how our break out potentials fared. We are using point pace [...]
This week we are going to return from our playoff focused sequence of the last several weeks to some more traditional programming. The focus for today is going to be a look at point production, and more specifically points per 60. Points per 60 attempts to account for a player’s playing time when comparing scoring [...]
