There was a full slate of games on Saturday night, so there is plenty to discuss. Let’s get right to it. - With 16 points in 17 games, Travis Sanheim is presently Philadelphia’s leading scorer. I had been totally sleeping on this breakout. So as someone posted a week ago in the forums, “is he [...]
With the NHL showcasing its talent via the Global Series in Stockholm, Sweden this week, there’s been no shortage of awesome afternoon hockey to watch and wager on. Such is the case yet again today, with a total of 13 games on tap, including four matinee matchups. Last week was profitable in terms of my [...]
Goalies (in fantasy hockey): I’m going to discuss this from a number of angles. First, for our Yahoo or Fantrax fantasy leagues, goalies tend to make up an inordinate percentage of categories (or points, to a lesser degree) compared to skaters. The current Yahoo default skater categories are Goals, Assists, Shots on Goal, Power-Play Points, [...]
On Friday, William Nylander put on a show for friends, family and fans on home soil, tallying three points in game two of the NHL’s Global Series in Sweden. Although he was born in Canada, Nylander’s roots are in Sweden. He’s a citizen of both countries but represents Sweden on the world stage. Fuelled by [...]
Welcome back! A little bit of a stranger NHL schedule this week, but that mostly has to do with the Global Games taking place. At least, for some clubs. I still for the life of me can’t figure out why the Rangers are only on the schedule once this week. With no games on the [...]
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are shifting gears a bit. So far we have been focused on trivial things like goal scoring and point production, but today we dig into peripheral categories, specifically for defense. For the purposes of this article we are going to mainly focus on hits and blocks (not penalty [...]
PDO is a key metric for evaluating player performance and is often used to measure luck or variance. While PDO can regress towards a league average, suggesting predictability, its interpretation requires caution. A high or low PDO doesn't always signify luck; it can also reflect team strategy or player skill. This article aims to demystify [...]
Welcome back my Salary Cap-friendlies! Last week we talked about all things goaltending, so this week I thought it would be good to go into a little rookie-check in. It’s like in your first year of college and you haven’t talked to your family since they dropped you off, it’s just good to check back. [...]
Coming into last night’s games, the Vancouver Canucks trio of Quinn Hughes, Elias Pettersson, and J.T. Miller was tied for the league lead in scoring, with 26 points each. I’m not sure if that has ever happened before with a three-way tie for the league lead in scoring (past the first couple games of a [...]
It has not been the start to the season Buffalo wanted (7-8-1) and the injuries are starting to rack up. It started before the season with the Achilles injury to winger Jack Quinn and has included winger Alex Tuch for the last week (more on him in a bit). The latest was Tage Thompson, who [...]
