This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to continue our review of players who are contributing across multiple potential fantasy categories. For this week it is time for defense. To gather the data for this review I ran the Multi-Category report on the Dobber Reports page. This report gives us basic scoring information [...]
In last week's edition of 'Analytics Advantage', there was analysis on how plus/minus can have a massive, and understated, impact on fantasy hockey value. There was also an analysis on how plus/minus fluctuates when a player changes teams. This week will pick up where we left off and apply what we discovered a week ago [...]
MacKenzie Weegar finished last season at minus-33, and 9-cat drafters are pricing it: his ADP sits at 123 as August closes. That minus-33 was worn on a Calgary team that finished with the league's third-worst goal differential. The defenseman who wore it now plays in Utah, and when you forecast his plus/minus from the jersey [...]
Nikolaj Ehlers (the Canes’ game-breaker) opened the scoring early for Carolina, giving them a 1-0 lead 25 seconds in, and then a 2-0 lead 12 minutes in. The two goal-lead lasted all of a minute though, before Frederik Andersen’s shaky start came back to bite him. Neither goalie played all that well, with Anderson looking [...]
Welcome back in, everyone! Deadline day has come and gone, and after taking in the day itself—and the days leading up to it—I must agree with the general sentiment: this was a slow one. It gave me flashbacks to the Kevin Shattenkirk deadline, where it felt like nothing happened outside of a few fringe moves. [...]
During the Olympic break, I wrote about how Tampa Bay forward Dominic James has some pretty good scoring chance numbers for the Lightning, and that was without often playing with their top stars. He was having a solid rookie season, which is why it was brutal to see he’s going to miss 8-10 weeks with [...]
The Calgary Flames continue to sell off, moving MacKenzie Weegar out to the Utah Mammoth in exchange for Olli Maatta, Jonathan Castagna, and three second round picks in 2026 (UTA/OTT/NYR). For Utah, it’s a coup to pull off a deal for such an impact player without giving up one of their top prospects like [...]
This week, we are going to look at the most disappointing fantasy player from each team in the Western Conference. I’m going to be looking at some of the projections for each of these players and see where they are at a third of the way through the 2025-26 season. We will attempt to avoid [...]
We are nearly 30% of the way through the regular season, which means firm decisions need to be made about fantasy rosters. Managers hoping for a championship need to look around the league at which players could bolster their roster, and that’s what we’re doing here today. We are seeking players who are Black Friday [...]
