Frozen Tools Forensics

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 [...]

Back in August we spent some time digging into players that might have been positioned to break out based on their 2022-23 seasons. Now that NHL action is essentially wrapped (writing this on Thursday, April 18th), it is time to look in the rear view mirror and see how that list of players performed. As [...]

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 [...]

Congrats if you are still invested in a hockey team at this point, it likely means your fantasy journey is continuing. Last week we focused on some immediate players who were streaking and whether or not they might be good adds to your roster. We also hit on a few highly rostered players who might [...]

It is that time of year again. If you are still in competitive matchups, congrats. We don’t really have the luxury of looking long term anymore. For most folks, it is win or go home at this point. When the timeline is one week a simple hot streak can make or break the matchup. Given [...]

This week we return to trade deadline talk. Last week we did a historical walkthrough of the 22-23 season and what happened to the forwards traded. This week we will be touching on defense. We won’t be hitting directly on specific trades from 23-24 in this article, but I wanted to set our expectations for [...]

Welcome to deadline season. There have been a few dominos to fall leading up to the deadline, but nothing compared to the early start we saw last year. We won’t be hitting directly on a specific trade in this article, but in honor of the trade deadline, and to set our expectations accordingly when players [...]

Today on Frozen Tools Forensics we are continuing our look at a player's age. Last week we looked the young players who have been performing well recently and today we are flipping the script and looking at those still productive older players. With the younger players, we looked at smaller sample sizes of positive production [...]