Frozen Tools Forensics

  Is it too early in the season to look at the top ten candidates for fourth-year breakouts? Probably, but we will do it anyway. When I say breakouts, it’s not about players like Mitch Marner, Matthew Tkachuk or Sebastian Aho who have already had stellar seasons and should duplicate or slightly improve upon them. [...]

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  This week we will focus on the top ten in our two-part at the top 20 rookies for 2019-2020. As of writing this column we still have all of our part one rookies still up with the NHL teams (Joel Persson was injured in the Oilers pre-season game and we’re unsure of the severity [...]

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  By using PP data from Dobber’s Frozen Tools Report Generator, we have the ability to view any number of categories among the top-30 PP producers from last season. There is an example of this below:     The leaders for goals while with the man advantage last season were Brayden Point with 20, Steven [...]

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  In part two of our look at impending UFAs, we are reviewing our next batch of players who could potentially put up some pretty good numbers this season. They could potentially be motivated to do more than they otherwise might if their contracts weren’t on the line. You can read part one here.    [...]

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  A very useful feature of Frozen Tools is the Giveaway and Takeaway Report Generator. I’ve run separate reports for forwards and defencemen and set the minimum games played at 50 for 2018-2019 below. The NHL defines a giveaway as “a form of turnover where the player makes an unforced error that results in giving [...]