Frozen Tools Forensics

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 [...]

Writing this on the eve of the regular season, I decided to turn to training camp. Like with the article a couple of weeks ago on PTOs, I am going to follow a few storylines instead of the usual Dobber Report driven look at players. First up is a return to the PTO article and [...]

Today on Frozen Tools Forensics we are going to turn to goalies. It is hard to read too much into any preseason results so instead we will be looking back to the 2023-24 data to see if there are any little bits of wisdom we can pick up. We should start with the known quantity [...]

The NHL season is approaching and the flow of news is starting to pick up. Training camps are starting and we have injury updates, signings, line combinations, and PTOs. Professional tryouts are not usually the way to make a name for yourself as a fantasy player, and for the most part fantasy leagues won’t be [...]

This week we are finishing our little mini-series on multi-cat players. Last week we looked at at forwards, and today we turn our attention to defensemen. For the purposes of this article we are mainly going to be focusing on hits, blocks, and shots (sorry no penalty minutes). I have pulled all the data for [...]

Last week we took a look at some potential break out players using a games-played threshold, and prior to that we went division by division to focus on what some of the underlying numbers might mean for player scoring. One avenue we haven’t touched on yet going into draft season is multi-cat players. For the [...]