Frozen Tools Forensics

  Boy that went quickly; another season completed and another Stanley Cup victory for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Not too shabby considering they were without their top defenseman in Kris Letang. Kudos to the Pens, but now it’s time to shift gears back into the fantasy mindset and start mining for value and identifying some breakout [...]

  It seems as if every season there is a player or two that sneaks up to surprise the hockey world and land a plum job next to talented players and produce fantasy-worthy results. Now, whether this player actually came out of nowhere or was forecasted to have legitimate upside due to some numbers that [...]

  As the weather continues to turn warmer, we as fantasy hockey managers are forced to begin the mighty task of projecting into the next fall and beyond. With that never-ending forecasting comes many opinions and debates that easily abound, and right now, there doesn’t appear to be a more polarizing fantasy asset than Jake [...]

    In Part 1 of our look at some of the best fantasy blue liners from 2016-17, we were led down a winding path from Winnipeg’s brutal back end and Dustin Byfuglien’s stabilizing presence, all the way to sunny Tampa Bay where Victor Hedman transformed from potential stud, to megastar in the span of [...]

  As we close the door on another terrific season of hockey and the finalists for all the major awards are slowly being released, Frozen Pool Forensics will dig into some of the contenders and give our take on who deserves to win each award from a fantasy perspective. […]

  Well, we’ve finally made it. It’s been a long and winding journey that has seen this caravan of fantasy hockey players witness some truly remarkable sights: The feisty second generation NHL’er making his mark in Calgary; a 19-year-old Finn who popped 24 goals; the upstart Pittsburgh rookie who pushed a point-per-game for half a season; [...]

  In our continuing look at one of the most dominant freshman classes in recent memory, it seemed criminal to squeeze all this goodness into just two parts. As such, we’ll have a third and final instalment come out where Frozen Pool Forensics will focus in on our final two standing for the coveted Calder [...]

It took a little time, but it seems like both old-school hockey people and new-school analytics folks are all on the same page: If you want to win, you need cheap, productive talent to surround your core. Or in some cases, be your core. The same adage is true in fantasy hockey as young, unproven [...]

Keller? Boeser? Jost? What to expect from the recent signings out of college hockey. […]

Extoling the virtues of Sidney Crosby, Conor Sheary and Jake Guentzel. […]