Today on Frozen Tools Forensics we are going to do a quick pulse check on some of the trade deadline movers. It has been about two weeks since the deadline, and most teams have something in the range of 6-7 games played. Not all of the players have managed to get into all of their [...]
Greetings. Here are the top Frozen Tools searches for the past week: https://twitter.com/FrozenTools/status/1963648264080953656 https://twitter.com/FrozenTools/status/1963649524326625673 This list seems like a mixed bag of veterans and rookies, so today I’ll discuss four players that have grabbed my attention and that I haven’t covered in previous weeks during this offseason. Connor McDavid You can discuss McDavid on a [...]
According to David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period, Matthew Tkachuk underwent surgery a few weeks ago and would miss the start of the season as a result. Pagnotta also speculated that a Tkachuk return to action could take place as late as January, which would give Tkachuk a runway of at least a few games [...]
Here are the top Frozen Tools searches for the past week: https://twitter.com/FrozenTools/status/1945891258691645456 https://twitter.com/FrozenTools/status/1945892518308245958 This week, the focus is on players 25 and under, with five players looking to build on what they have accomplished in their careers so far. Sam Rinzel With Seth Jones traded before the deadline last season, Rinzel may be the [...]
The first round of the playoffs is officially wrapped and it is time to turn our attentions, at long last, to those series. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see if there is anything to learn about a player’s performance. We will go round by round and look at [...]
This week we are continuing our MVP series with defensemen. I have included a small snippet from the original article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes of this article, [...]
This week we are continuing our MVP series with right wings. I have included a small snippet from last week’s article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes of this [...]
With the season wrapping up I wanted to take a moment for what has become an annual tradition over here on Frozen Tool Forensics. We are using our regular season stats to look forward to playoff leagues and see if we can predict some unexpected playoff heroes. This all started back when I wrote the [...]
This week we are going to return from our playoff focused sequence of the last several weeks to some more traditional programming. The focus for today is going to be a look at point production, and more specifically points per 60. Points per 60 attempts to account for a player’s playing time when comparing scoring [...]
Over the past several weeks we have taken a look at players from the perspective of the approaching playoffs. Who are the teams on good schedules? Who are the skaters you might want to drop because you can’t wait for them to turn it around? Who are the players who have new opportunities at the [...]
