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Frozen Tools Forensics: Changes in Deployment for Klingberg, York, Tolvanen, Vatrano, Theodore, and More

By Chris Kane|2025-12-12T07:17:28-05:00December 12th, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to take a quick departure from actual production and spend some time looking at player deployment. As deployment so often dictates changes in production, we certainly will see some players who are performing a bit better or worse than expected, but what we are really looking at [...]

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Frozen Tools Forensics: Hot Streaks for Landeskog, Evangelista, and Mercer; Cold Streaks for Forsberg, Cooley, and Quinn Hughes

By Chris Kane|2025-12-05T07:46:18-05:00December 5th, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going with a classic hot and cold column. We are taking a look at several players on hot and cold streaks and trying to figure out if there is something sustainable happening, or if we should expect them to revert back to their usual. In order to [...]

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Frozen Tools Forensics: Breakout Thresholds for Pinto, McTavish, Johnston, Peterka, Neighbours, and Perfetti

By Chris Kane|2025-11-21T07:47:31-05:00November 21st, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

Back in August we used this article posted on June 30th, 2022 to identify a few potential breakout candidates for 2025-26. The summary is that there tends to be a game count by which players start to break out. In this case breakout is defined as a 25 percent year-over-year increase. What they found is [...]

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Frozen Tools Forensics: Top Multi-Category Performances from Montour, Trouba, Nurse, Walker, and More

By Chris Kane|2025-11-14T06:21:15-05:00November 14th, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are turning specifically toward defence production. There are certainly a number of D making headlines, from rookie Matthew Schaefer whom we discussed last week, to Simon Nemec pulling off a hattrick, to Cale Makar casually on an 111-point pace. Today though I want to focus on players who [...]

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Frozen Tools Forensics: Sustainable, and Unsustainable, Rookie Production from Demidov, Snuggerud, Schaefer, Buium, and More

By Chris Kane|2025-10-31T07:02:59-04:00October 31st, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

There have been many impressive performances to start the season and a surprising number of them have been from this year’s rookie class. For today we are going to take a look at some of the top scoring rookies. In a standard redraft league rookies are typically not that helpful. They go hot and cold, [...]

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Frozen Tools Forensics: Cold Starts and Potential Rebounds (or Not) for Reinhart, Svechnikov, Stamkos, Laine, and Sergachev

By Chris Kane|2025-10-24T05:59:06-04:00October 24th, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

Last week we used league scoring data to focus on some players who were performing well in the early going to see if there were any hot streaks worth jumping on. Today we are flipping the script and looking at cold players to see if anything has changed about their situation that causes worry, or [...]

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Frozen Tools Forensics: Underlying Performance for Top Producers Like Pinto, Buium, Dorofeyev, and Others

By Chris Kane|2025-10-17T07:15:37-04:00October 17th, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

It is time to turn our attention, finally, to the real games that are happening in the NHL. We are over a week in now and as of this writing (October 16th) most teams have played three or four games. By the time you are reading there will be another night of games in the [...]

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Frozen Tools Forensics: Top Preseason Performances from Norris and Frost; PTOs for Grzelcyk and Sheary

By Chris Kane|2025-10-10T07:20:00-04:00October 10th, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

The NHL is back. Given the timing of this article, we don’t have a ton of NHL action to report on thus far. Next week we will be digging into results from the first week-plus. Today is going to be a series of quick hits wrapping up the preseason and including a couple of takeaways [...]

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Frozen Tools Forensics: Training Camp Injuries Affecting Seattle, Florida, Buffalo, and Others

By Chris Kane|2025-10-03T08:48:38-04:00October 3rd, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

This week is our final article before the start of NHL action. Last week we touched on some notable storyline from the preseason camps, and today will be something of a follow up to that. There was some news available at the time, but in some cases it seems to have snowballed to the point [...]

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Frozen Tools Forensics: Preseason Storylines Including Perfetti’s New Role, Shabanov’s Opportunity, and More

By Chris Kane|2025-09-26T07:20:53-04:00September 26th, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to focus on some preseason storylines. Preseason is an interesting time with wild line combinations, players out of the lineup, random depth players scoring big in preseason games, and players being sent back to the minors. We are going to try sifting through some of the [...]

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