Frozen Tools Forensics

Today we are kicking off a mini-series focusing on helping us make smarter player decisions at the draft table. It is not enough to know how a player performed in the previous season, but we need to try to determine whether or not that level of performance was reasonable or unsustainable. We will go division [...]

After a hiatus for a couple of weeks due to vacation I am returning this week to finish off the playoff coverage. In the previous articles we covered teams that were eliminated in the first two rounds and identified players who seemed like they were on the outs and those who were getting a bigger [...]

There are a couple of more playoff related topics that we are going to hit in this column, but they need to wait until the finals have wrapped up. In the meantime, let’s return to the 2023-24 season as there are some additional ways we can look at the season, and some interesting reports we [...]

We are back this week to finish our MVP series. We have completed reviews for centers, right and left wingers, and defensemen. Today we will be moving on to goalies. The process will be much the same as with skater articles, though using different categories and scoring metrics. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that [...]

While we wait for the conclusion of the Cup Finals, we return to our MVP series. Today is the final installment of our skater portion. We have concluded the forwards and are moving on to defensemen. As a reminder here is some context for the data below this series. For the purposes of this article, [...]

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 [...]