Today we tackle the second of our Most Valuable series. We started last week with centers and today we move to right wings. As a reminder, here is a brief description from that article on the process: ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. [...]
We now interrupt our regularly scheduled playoff coverage (while we wait for the Final to be decided) to start on one of our traditional offseason series. This week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be taking a look back over full season data to find out which players provided the most, and best, value [...]
The week we are headed for the third of four playoff series articles. Now that the second round is wrapped let’s dig into our newest eliminated teams. As a quick reminder, the teams that went down in the second round were Edmonton, New Jersey, Toronto, and Seattle. Like the last two articles we are going [...]
The first round of the playoffs is officially wrapped, and it is time to turn our attention, at long last, to the playoff series. There are many places to get the play-by-plays, the current takes and storylines, but this is not it. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see [...]
The first round of the playoffs is officially wrapped and it is time to turn our attentions, at long last, to the second round. There are many places to get the play-by-plays, the current takes and storylines, but this is not it. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see [...]
In keeping with our year in review theme, I want to return to a series I started back in August attempting to predict some players on the cusp of a breakout for 22-23. The premise was based on an article posted in June that attempted to define a breakout threshold in the NHL. The brief [...]
It has been a pretty wild start to playoff matchups. Those story lines are being covered pretty extensively elsewhere and we will be reviewing from a fantasy perspective at a later time so expect some playoff content once some of the rounds have wrapped. For now, we are going to take a look back over [...]
With the NHL playoffs fast approaching, many fantasy leagues have ended, and as per usual some odd things are happening with NHL teams. We have teams secured in their spot resting all their key players, we have teams well out of it giving their new young players a chance, and we have teams pushing hard [...]
With a lot of league’s playoffs wrapping up this weekend there isn’t a lot of forward planning to do for now. I wanted to take a moment for what has become an annual tradition over here in Frozen Tools. We are using our regular season stats to look forward to playoff leagues and see if [...]
In our last column we focused on short-term streaks, players that you want to take a look at for your do or die matchups. This week we are going to take the same sort of approach, but in terms of goalies. We will highlight a few teams that have had some changes, take a look [...]
