Frozen Tools Forensics

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are taking a deep dive into scoring. Goals, shots, shooting percentages – that is the name of the game today. To get us started we have a helpful report on the Dobber Reports page entitled Shots. This report gives us all we might want to know about a player’s [...]

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Frozen Tools Forensics. First and foremost, on a somber note our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by the New Year's Day tragedy in New Orleans. My name is Chad Simpson and I have the honor of making my first appearance for Dobber Hockey filling in [...]

This week we are talking about players who are trending in the right direction heading into the new year, and whether their recent success appears sustainable in 2025. While there have been many players who have found success in the early going of the season, today we are focusing solely on players who have been [...]

This week we are turning our collective attentions to a Dobber report that focuses a bit more on descriptive information than the data that informs our typical analysis. Usually we are looking at data points that can help us determine if a performance we are seeing from a player is sustainable or if we should [...]

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to spend some time digging into power-play defensemen. For the most part we know who the big names are on each team, but throughout the year there are usually changes happening with that deployment. These can be because of injury, the emergence of a new player, or [...]

Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to dig into rookie performances. We will get to our current crop of rookies in a bit, but I want to start with some recent rookie history. Doing so will let us set the stage a bit in terms of what we usually expect from rookie production [...]