Frozen Tools Forensics

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 [...]

Before digging into our new topic for the week I wanted to update a couple of takes from last week where we were taking a look at some cold players. Some good news and some bad news on Edmonton’s top power play. Leon Draisaitl has four points in his last three games and nine in [...]

This week we are flipping the script from our last column. We touched on the hottest starts then, but now we really need to turn attention to some ice-cold players. There are always some to start every season, but it is a little surprising just how many big names made the list here. Like last [...]

Last week we touched on the impact of a hot October start, and in something akin to a follow up we are going to spend this week taking a look at some unlikely productive players thus far. And of course, try to determine whether we are seeing something brand new from them or if we [...]

With so few games in the books as of the writing of this article (Thursday, October 10th) it is hard to dig into too many specific happenings. We will hit a couple as they are relevant to our topic, but we are actually going to dig into a little bit of past data in order [...]