Frozen Tools Forensics

  I will preface this article by saying that I know there are severe limitations around PDO as a stat and this is not meant to provide an analytical critique or an in-depth scouting report of NHL players. It is intended to give fantasy owners a clue as to whether a player might continue to [...]

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  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.    [...]