Frozen Tools Forensics

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are taking a deep dive into scoring. Goals, shots, shooting percentages – that is the name of the game today. To get us started we have a helpful report on the Dobber Reports page entitled Shots. This report gives us all we might want to know about a player’s [...]

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Frozen Tools Forensics. First and foremost, on a somber note our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by the New Year's Day tragedy in New Orleans. My name is Chad Simpson and I have the honor of making my first appearance for Dobber Hockey filling in [...]

This week we are talking about players who are trending in the right direction heading into the new year, and whether their recent success appears sustainable in 2025. While there have been many players who have found success in the early going of the season, today we are focusing solely on players who have been [...]

This week we are turning our collective attentions to a Dobber report that focuses a bit more on descriptive information than the data that informs our typical analysis. Usually we are looking at data points that can help us determine if a performance we are seeing from a player is sustainable or if we should [...]

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to spend some time digging into power-play defensemen. For the most part we know who the big names are on each team, but throughout the year there are usually changes happening with that deployment. These can be because of injury, the emergence of a new player, or [...]

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to dig into rookie performances. We will get to our current crop of rookies in a bit, but I want to start with some recent rookie history. Doing so will let us set the stage a bit in terms of what we usually expect from rookie production [...]

This week we are going to run through a pretty classic exercise and look at a bunch of cold players and determine our level of general concern. Unfortunately, we will not exactly be answering the drop or not question as that really is going to depend on the categories of the league and not to [...]

This week we are turning our attention to our well-rounded contributors. Every so often we pause the more points-oriented conversations to highlight those strong multi-cat contributors across the league. For today’s article I took the Multi-Category report and exported it for the season to date (before games started on November 14). The tables below contain [...]

This week we are returning to a Frozen Tool Forensics classic - deployment. Every so often it is helpful to get an understanding of who is getting better opportunities on the ice, whether that is increased overall time on ice or increased time on the power-play. Obviously, we are most interested in players who are [...]