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 [...]
We are very much in the home stretch here. Some leagues have already started playoffs, many begin next week. That means if there are changes to make to your team they need to be made now or there might not be another week to do it. It also means we are way less concerned with [...]
Welcome to deadline day. This has been a wild week with a ton of action leading up to Friday. As I am writing this on Thursday I don’t know if there are any dominoes still falling, but there are probably a couple of players that did not move right? For a full list of fantasy [...]
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to take a quick detour from our recent focus on skaters and point production. Today we are looking at on goalies. In most standard leagues we use bunch of goalie stats that goalies don”t necessarily have a lot of control over. Much of the value comes [...]
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to be focusing on even strength production, and more specifically the production of individual lines. While it usually takes power-play deployment to put up superstar numbers, solid even-strength production creates the baseline. Players with strong even strength production are valuable as they are putting up production [...]
Last week we kicked off the two-part look back miniseries by reviewing those players who have beaten their early season expectations. This week we will tackle those who have disappointed us and it is certainly an interesting list. To gather the data, I pulled Dobber’s point pace projections from the beginning of the year (available [...]
