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Now that August is officially here we are going to be transitioning from our roundup related articles (like the MVP and playoff series’) to some more specifically forward looking content. This week we are going to return to the idea of potential breakout players. Historically this column had reviewed the 4th year breakout candidates, but [...]

It’s Bubble Keeper Week at Dobber and as you may have noticed all the writers are focusing on players who might be under keeper consideration in various kinds of leagues. The idea being that anyone in a keeper league has some decisions to make this offseason. When we break down a keeper decision though we [...]

We are back this week, after a couple of week hiatus, to finish our MVP series. We have completed reviews for centers, right and left wingers, and defensemen. Today we will be moving on to goalies. The process will be much the same as with skater articles, though using different categories and scoring metrics. “Most [...]

This week we are returning to the playoffs one last time. I like to try and hold myself at least somewhat accountable for the recommendations we make here on Frozen Tool Forensics. We are returning to our Unlikely Playoff Heroes article from just before the playoffs. In that article I made a number of recommendations [...]

That’s it folks - the playoffs are wrapped. Congrats to the Golden Knights. We have a couple of playoff themed wrap-ups here before we completely close out the season, and this week we are going to return to our review of player deployment. In our previous articles we analyzed team deployment in the lead up [...]

Welcome to our final skater installment of the Most Valuable series. We will return to the playoff results next week. We have completed reviews for centers, and right and left wingers, and today we will move to defensemen. As a reminder here is a brief description from the first article on the process. ‘Most Valuable’ [...]

Welcome to our third installment of the Most Valuable series. We have completed reviews for centers and right wingers already, and today we will move to the left wing. As a reminder here is a brief description from the first article on the process: ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be [...]

Today we tackle the second of our Most Valuable series. We started last week with centers and today we move to right wings. As a reminder, here is a brief description from that article on the process: ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. [...]

We now interrupt our regularly scheduled playoff coverage (while we wait for the Final to be decided) to start on one of our traditional offseason series. This week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be taking a look back over full season data to find out which players provided the most, and best, value [...]

The week we are headed for the third of four playoff series articles. Now that the second round is wrapped let’s dig into our newest eliminated teams. As a quick reminder, the teams that went down in the second round were Edmonton, New Jersey, Toronto, and Seattle. Like the last two articles we are going [...]