Frozen Tools Forensics

A few weeks ago on Frozen Tool Forensics, we focused on potential breakout players using a breakout threshold process outlined elsewhere on the site. For the full break down check out the article. Part of the analysis was looking at players that had strong second half splits. That got me thinking generally about first half/second [...]

As with the faceoff article posted a few weeks ago, I like to occasionally check in on stats, and therefore players, that are a bit more on the peripheral (see what I did there?) Categories like hits and blocks are not as exciting as points and shots, so they definitely don’t get as much air [...]

Usually in the summer I like to take a look at our fourth-year breakout reports and get an idea of which players are in position to take that step forward. This year I am going to adjust the process slightly based on a recent article that uses games played to measure a player’s breakout threshold. [...]

It is Bubble Week over here at Dobber Hockey. All of our articles this week have been touching on players with question marks. The ones you might be considering keeping, or might not. For my article this week we are going to be looking at production per 60. It is particularly interesting to me to [...]

Every so often on Frozen Tools I try to dig into a stat or a category that is a bit more specific and maybe doesn’t get as much airtime. I like to dig into some of the non-point related categories too, your hits, your blocks, but in particular find the players who thread the needle [...]

Back in April, I posted an article about Unlikely Playoff Heroes. It was the next in a series that I have written over the last several years. The idea is every year there are always a couple of players who step up in a noticeable way in the playoffs, both in terms of on ice [...]

This week we are finishing out the journey around the league’s goaltenders. For a full list of all of the offseason moves and their fantasy impacts take a look here. As a brief reminder of the process, here are some of the pertinent details from last week’s article. We will be using the 2021-22 season [...]

We had a fun few days of free agency, and while there are certainly still some names out there, not much has happened recently. There has been a lot of analysis here at Dobber Hockey, and all of the summary takes can be found here. As so much of this ground has been covered already, [...]

Welcome to our final playoff deployment review. We are wrapping up with the final four teams for the 2021-22 playoff season: Colorado, Edmonton, Tampa Bay, and New York (Rangers). Given that these are the final four, they have the biggest sample sizes. In most cases we are looking at between 16-23 games depending on the [...]

We are back this week with our analysis of the playoff rounds. And no, we won’t be talking about that overtime goal. We have moved through all of the first-round exits, and this week will turn our attentions to the teams that didn’t survive the second round. This week on Frozen Tool Forensics: Second Round [...]