Frozen Tools Forensics

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 [...]

The finals are underway and there certainly is some buzz around this matchup. There are a lot of fun storylines too - Pat Maroon, Corey Perry, and a Tampa three-peat. Our focus for this week is going to be playoffs, but we are returning to our review of eliminated teams. Last week we looked at [...]

Now that we have officially wrapped up the MVP discussions it is time to turn our attentions, at long last, to the playoffs. There are many places to get the play-by-plays, the current takes and storylines, but this is not it. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see if [...]

Last week we rounded out our skaters by looking at the most valuable defensemen, and this week caps the endeavor by reviewing goalies. Starting next week, we will be diving into the playoff matchups to see if there are any nuggets worth carrying over into next season. As with our previous articles we will be [...]

This week we are finishing up our most valuable skater series. We have already touched on centers, left wings, and right wings and those articles can be viewed here. So now we are on to defensemen. Check out the rest of those articles for the full story. This week on Frozen Tool Forensics: Most Valuable [...]

The first round of playoff matchups have wrapped, and we will return to them in a couple of weeks for some takeaways, but for now we are going to continue our review of the most valuable player at each position. Thus far we have covered centers and right wings. This week we are moving on [...]