Frozen Tools Forensics

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 [...]

Given the (now extended) break this week there isn’t really a need to touch on streaking players or deployment changes so we are going to take this opportunity and look at how things have changed over the year to date. Last week we reviewed big deployment changes, but this week it is all about production [...]

The landscape of this NHL season is constantly changing and this week has been quite dramatic. With so many teams losing players and games, COVID is wreaking havoc on both real and fantasy lineups. This week on Frozen Tool Forensics, we are going to try to get a handle on what has changed over the [...]

Everyone will be happy to hear that since last week’s article was posted about Winnipeg (recommending folks hold on to Winnipeg players) they have put up 16 goals in three games and there are now only three cold streaks listed in their player profiles. The only real cold streak of note is Josh Morrissey. We [...]