Frozen Tools Forensics

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are shifting gears a bit and digging into peripheral categories, specifically for defense. We did this back in November so are going to be taking a look at anything that has changed since then. For the purposes of this article, we are going to mainly focus on hits, [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to try a new way to look at goalies. Essentially we are going to be tracking down some goalie start numbers and see if we can find a way to run a report or a series of reports to give us an idea of who is [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to dive back into a classic, a recurring theme of the column: time on ice. We talk a lot about deployment here as opportunity usually begets production. I will typically look at deployment in terms of lines, as that usually has some bearing on total time [...]

Today we are going to dig into some of our superstars. Well in reality we are using them to get at some players who you may be interested in considering for your roster, but still, we are going to start with superstars. The point here is lines matter, deployment matters, and the players who get [...]

This week on Frozen Tools Forensics we are digging into some of the more surprising performances over the past month. There have been a lot of really interesting names popping up of late (I mean San Jose is scoring goals? What dark magic is this?), so I thought it would be worth taking a look [...]

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics, we are going to be diving into a new report about rostered percentages. Over on the reports page under the Rankings heading, we have a report called Precent Rostered. It gives us some basic counting stats (points, shots, hits, blocks, penalty minutes, and power-play points), along with a couple of [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we turn our attention to goalies. We are going to take a slightly larger view - not necessarily a breakdown of specific games, but an overview of how much goalies are playing for their various teams and how impactful those games have been. In order to do this, I [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are shifting gears a bit. So far we have been focused on trivial things like goal scoring and point production, but today we dig into peripheral categories, specifically for defense. For the purposes of this article we are going to mainly focus on hits and blocks (not penalty [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are finishing out our early season exploration into time on ice. In what has become a recurring series in the column we are using our Frozen Tools Reports to highlight some players who are seeing big changes in their deployment. Production follows deployment so knowing how players are [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to be digging into time on ice. In what has become a recurring series in the column we are going to use our Frozen Tools Reports to highlight some players who are seeing big changes in their deployment. Production follows deployment, so knowing how players are [...]