Frozen Tools Forensics

We are back at it this week with a Frozen Tool Forensic’s classic. Given the holidays and some other recent events I have been a bit out of the loop the last few weeks so decided to get back into the swing of things by looking at player deployment and trying to get an idea [...]

In Part 2 of our little power-play suite, we are going to move on from defensemen specifically to production in general. Last week was devoted to opportunity, using things like percent of a team’s total power-play, but this week we are focusing on point production and will see who is really taking advantage of their [...]

Every season we see an unexpected defenseman or two dramatically increase their fantasy stock over the course of the season. Sometimes it is their peripheral contributions or higher than expected five on five scoring, but usually it is because they have also ascended to the top power-play for their respective teams. For this week we [...]

Today I want to return to an article I wrote back in August attempting to predict some players on the cusp of a breakout. We will be taking a look at some of the predictions made, and see how the recommended players are performing now. The premise was based on an article posted in June [...]

As fans and writers, we sometimes like to pick arbitrary times as opportunities to look back or to group sets of games. For instance, the All-Star break is often used as a halfway point and a comparison for first half/second half splits when it is not in fact the halfway point of the season. Given [...]

Thus far in the early going we have tackled surprises, changes in ice time, and cold streaks. In each of these cases we are looking at league wide reports and filtering down to find the notable items to bring to the column. Through the process of filtering though, we have focused mostly on forwards and [...]

Today we are going to have a little fun and dive down the rabbit of empty net goals (ENG). We are in the early going so a low-event, unsustainable stat can have a big impact on a player’s overall count, shooting percentage, and our perception of how they are performing thus far. To get us [...]

In this Frozen Tools column we love to keep an eye on deployment, it has become a bit of a theme of the articles over the years. Getting access to top-six minutes and top power-play time is usually critical to success. Unless you are somehow able to watch every game it is hard to stay [...]

It could be just my leagues, but it seems like this season I am seeing more people cut bait with established players early on. Players who are cold for sure, but who we had some expectations of going into the season. For this week we are going to spend some time on cold players and [...]

The beginning of the season is an incredibly important time in fantasy. There is always a certain amount of roster turnover as players have fast starts, slow starts, or get better/worse deployment than expected. It is a time when attentive managers can really get an upper hand and turn a streaming spot, or dud draft [...]