Frozen Tools Forensics

Today we look to continue the “Where Are They Now” mini-series. Last week we checked in on forwards, so this week we are going to turn our attention to defensemen. We had a significant number of high scoring D early on and I was particularly interested if those players had managed to keep up the [...]

This week we are going to start a mini-series looking back at some early season returns and where those players are now. It’s the “Where Are They Now” mini-series. Kind of like checking up on all of your high school classmates (you know to make sure they aren’t doing better than you), just different. Originally [...]

To start this week, here are the top point scorers over the last month. NamePosTeamGPGAPTSJOHNNY GAUDREAULCGY1351924MITCHELL MARNERRTOR11111122MATTHEW TKACHUKRCGY1371522SIDNEY CROSBYCPIT1491322DYLAN LARKINCDET1291019AUSTON MATTHEWSCTOR1181119MATS ZUCCARELLORMIN1141418ANDREI SVECHNIKOVLCAR1381018MARK SCHEIFELECWPG138917JOE PAVELSKIRDAL1361117 It is an interesting list. No Connor McDavid. No Leon Draisaitl. Auston Matthews, check. Mitch Marner, sure. Sidney Crosby, sure. Johnny Gaudreau, Matthew Tkachuk, Mark Scheifele, Joe Pavelski, I mean [...]

Last week we started looking at what I called the impacts of the All-Star Break. It really was less of an impact, but more of a look at trends over the first half versus the second half of the season. The biggest takeaways were that over the last two seasons Leon Draisaitl has been a [...]

We have finally hit that mid-season break moment where some of the NHL’s best players go hang out for a few days and compete for glorious prizes. This mark at the season tends to be viewed as sort of the unofficial and not actually halfway point of the season so I wanted to take a [...]

Now that we are at about the halfway mark of the season it seems appropriate to take a look at some first half successes. In this case though we are going to deviate from point paces and pay homage to the multi-cat kings. Being in two leagues that count peripheral categories I can attest that [...]

On Wednesday of this week the NHL dumped all of their schedule information for the Olympic break. By this point that probably isn’t news, and it also probably isn’t news that some of the fantasy platforms have yet to (and maybe won’t?) update their schedules. Yes, we are talking about that now infamous Fantasy Week [...]

As we kind of returned to hockey over the last couple of weeks, there have been a number of new look lines that have popped up across the league. We have players getting injured/returning, and some general just line shuffling. I wanted to take this opportunity to dig into which lines have been having the [...]

Every so often we turn our attentions to some of the stat categories on the site, include a little primer on what they are and then see how we can use them to give some context to what is happening with certain players. We featured Evgeni Malkin last season in our review of IPP. Today [...]

Last week, given the break we took a look at how skaters' value had shifted during the first portion of the year. At the time it made sense as we were dealing with a planned break that was extended because of a flurry of COVID postponements. Games are back on, but it is still hard [...]