Frozen Tools Forensics

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 [...]

Last week we made an imperfect attempt to find the league’s most valuable center. Not every league is the same size, or uses the same settings, but we were able to highlight several notable performances. This week we are going to continue our series and look at right wingers. This week on Frozen Tool Forensics: [...]

Well, that’s a wrap on the regular season. Playoffs have begun, and while there are certainly some story lines, we will be reviewing games at a series level, so expect some playoff content once some of the rounds have wrapped. For now, I want to take a look back over the full season and find [...]

The NHL playoff teams are officially sorted, and the season officially ends this weekend. For many fantasy managers their quest for glory has already concluded either because they have been eliminated, or their leagues finish prior this final week of the season to avoid the random end-of-season scratches. This week, we are going to take [...]

It is time for what has become an annual tradition over here in Frozen Tools. We are using our regular season stats to see if we can predict some unlikely playoff heroes. This all started back when I wrote the Wild West column. I saw a column from Rick Roos on playoff heroes. He looked [...]