Frozen Tools Forensics

Here we are! Week one, and hockey is back. We don’t have many games in the bank yet, but we still have some interesting storylines to update. For today we are going to go back and visit a few of the most consistent stories from the off/preseason and see what context we can add now [...]

In our last article before the start of the 2023-24 season, we are taking one last trip back in time to our 2022-23 data. Today we will be comparing first and second half splits and seeing which players had the best starts in 22-23. In order to at least a little bit account for general [...]

Today over here at Frozen Tools Forensics we are going to be taking a look at some recent changes in draft positions. Given we are well into the drafting season we have some data already as to where players are going and I wanted to use this opportunity to compare that data to average draft [...]

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are returning to our shooting percentage conversations from last week. In that article we focused on players who were shooting higher than their career averages and whether or not there were underlying numbers indicating they might continue with that level of production. This week we are flipping the script [...]

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to dig into shooting percentage. The summer is a time full of articles exploring players who “should be better next season” or are “likely to fall off.” Sometimes this is pure conjecture, but often it is related to shooting percentage. The reason is that shooting percentage is [...]

This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are diving into the Yahoo rankings. I try to include some sort of Yahoo thematic article every year as there is a significant number of folks that use Yahoo as their platform and there are always some significant odd balls in the projections. Getting an idea of some [...]

This week we are rounding out a two-week mini-series on multi-cat players. Last week we focused on defensemen, so this week we are turning our attention to forwards. For the purposes of this article, we are mainly going to be focusing on hits, blocks, and shots (sorry no penalty minutes). I have pulled all the [...]

This week we are continuing a bit of a theme of the last few weeks by looking at defensemen. The last two weeks we were focused on power-play deployment as that certainly correlates with point production, but for this week the focus is on peripheral categories. For the purposes of this article, we are mainly [...]

This week we will be continuing our review of top power-play defensemen. In Part 1 we spent time examining teams with safe top units and the teams we have at least a season’s worth of data supporting how they are going to divide up the time amongst the players they are currently rostering. That leaves [...]

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are taking a slight departure from a stat specific review of players and focusing a bit more on deployment going into 23-23. The Erik Karlsson trade highlights what might just be a recent trend. Teams with a seemingly entrenched top power-play quarterback acquiring a second. Erik Karlsson, John Klingberg, [...]