Frozen Tools Forensics

As we get closer to the start of hockey, managers everywhere are beginning to prep their draft strategies. A big part of that for many is to take a look at projections for the upcoming players to try and make some judgements about their value (pro tip: go grab Dobber’s). If we are looking at [...]

It is time to continue Bubble Week in Frozen Tool Forensics. As I hope everyone has picked up on by now, Bubble Week is about trying to dig a little deeper on our ‘bubble’ players. The ones managers may be considering keeping or letting go. To help in our analysis we are going to look [...]

This week it is time for Part 2 of our miniseries. In Part 1 we took a look at forwards who perform well across peripheral categories like hits and blocks. This week we are moving on to defensemen. As a reminder - here is the process laid out from last week. Frozen Tools has an [...]

This week we are going to switch gears a little bit and turn our attention to our peripheral categories. This miniseries will divide up our skaters into forwards and defensemen and take a look at top performers in various categories and which players excel across multiple categories. This week on Frozen Tool Forensics: Multicategory Forwards [...]

We are back at it this week, and going to dive into the fun topic of fourth year breakouts. The mythical fourth year is often pegged as a perfect breakout opportunity, with reason. We have a ton of examples of players who broke out in their fourth year. It might be that it takes most [...]

Now that the dust has settled a bit, I wanted to return to Seattle’s expansion team. There has already been a lot written on their apparent strategy (or lack thereof), from questionable selections to the lack of side deals and asset accrual. At the end of the day the line seems to be that they [...]

Wednesday was a wild one. Signings, trades, you name it. It was a particularly incredible day for goalies. We saw quite a few of them move, several teams swapping out their entire tandems. In light of this I wanted to bring back an article from last summer where I dug into goalies on the move [...]

With Seattle on the brain, we turn to expansion teams. This will be a bit less about Seattle’s current draft list (which is likely to change before opening night) and more about doing a little expectation setting. We will start by digging into our last example of an expansion team entering into the league and [...]

We have arrived at our final four. We are examining what changed for teams and players during their playoff runs. In Part 1, and Part 2 we were reviewing first round exits. In Part 3 we hit the second round exits. The final four have the largest sample sizes and saw the most success of [...]

Here we are for the third in our four-part series examining what changed for teams and players during their playoff runs. In Part 1, and Part 2 we were examining first round exits. As such there were small sample sizes and disappointing exits that were impacting the data we were looking at. It is harder [...]