Frozen Tools Forensics

We have spent the last few weeks reviewing eliminated playoff teams, but given the timeline here there is an opportunity to return to our MVP series. At the beginning of the month, we were looking at individual players by roster position and identifying players who provided the most value. As a reminder, here is some [...]

This week we are returning with Part Three of our playoff series review. In the last two articles we covered the teams that were eliminated in the first round. This week we are going to take a look at teams who were eliminated in the second round. This means Carolina, Vancouver, Colorado, and Boston. Like [...]

This week we are returning to our playoff series with the second part of our first-round review. Last week we covered the teams eliminated from the Western Conference: Nashville, Vegas, LA, and Winnipeg. This week we are moving on to talk about the Eastern Conference, which means Toronto, Washington, Tampa, and the New York Islanders. [...]

The first round of the playoffs is officially wrapped, and it is time to turn our attentions, at long last, to those series. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see if there is anything to learn about a player’s performance. We will go round by round and look at [...]

We will return to the playoffs once the first round is concluded, but for this week we are moving on with part two of our Most Valuable series. Last week we reviewed the center position and this week we will be taking a look at right wings. As a reminder here is some context for [...]

We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be taking a look back over full season data and find out which players provided the [...]

With about a week’s worth of regular season action left I wanted to take a moment for what has become an annual tradition over here in Frozen Tool Forensics. We are using our regular season stats to look forward to playoff leagues and see if we can predict some unlikely playoff heroes. This all started [...]

For the past several weeks we have been focusing on streaking players at various positions. The goal was to find players you might want to add/drop during these do-or-die matchups (at least for leagues using a head-to-head format). This week is likely to be our last looking forward article. A lot of leagues are finishing [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to complete the trio. The last two weeks we have been reviewing players who might be worth a stream in do or die fantasy matchups. We have hit on forwards and defensemen and this week we are turning our attention to goalies. In order to grab [...]