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Ramblings: Deeper Fantasy Draft Values for Pinto, Dubois, Podkolzin, McBain, Poehling, Wennberg, Frost, and Minten – September 8

By |2026-09-07T08:15:15-04:00September 8th, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

In a pair of Ramblings last week, the review of my personal fantasy hockey projections began. We started with forwards before moving onto defencemen. Today, we’ll be going back to our forwards but looking for deeper values using ADP data from Fantrax. My projections are made using ‘replacement level’ value, which is determined to be [...]

Ramblings: Tolvanen Signed; Evangelista Traded; Finding Some Late Draft Targets Including Jarvis, Fiala, Gustavsson, Pinto, Voronkov & More (Sept 2)

By |2026-09-01T22:02:48-04:00September 2nd, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

The calendar flipped to September and all of a sudden we had actual NHL moves to discuss. First, the Rangers signed Eeli Tolvanen to a one year $1.5 Million contract, and then the New Jersey Devils traded for Luke Evangelista, sending a first and a second round pick back to Nashville. The Tolvanen deal is [...]

Frozen Tools Forensics: Reflecting on Breakout Predictions for Pinto, McTavish, Johnston, Peterka, Neighbours, and Perfetti

By |2026-05-29T06:10:10-04:00May 29th, 2026|Frozen Tools Forensics|

Back in August we used this article posted on June 30th, 2022 to identify a few potential breakout candidates for 2025-26. The summary is that there tends to be a game count by which players start to break out. In this case, “breakout” is defined as a 25 percent year-over-year increase. What they found is [...]

Looking Ahead: Lafrenière’s Production; Montreal’s New Goaltending Tandem; Tough Schedule for St. Louis, and More

By |2026-03-24T00:39:28-04:00March 13th, 2026|Looking Ahead|

Welcome back to ‘Looking Ahead’ as the Trade Deadline is in the rearview mirror and the stretch run of the NHL regular season, and fantasy hockey season, is officially on.  We have the information you need when scouring the waiver wire. Managers, let’s leer ahead at the upcoming weeks in fantasy hockey. Fantasy Hockey Player [...]

Ramblings: Fabbri Signs in St. Louis; Knight Blanks Rangers; Shot Improvements from Pinto, Zegras, Neighbours, and Carlsson – December 11

By |2025-12-11T06:34:29-05:00December 11th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The St. Louis Blues announced the signing of winger Robby Fabbri to a one-year, two-way contract. This is on the heels of them also announcing that winger Jordan Kyrou is week-to-week with a lower-body injury with Alexey Toropchenko still on the shelf and Nick Bjugstad also ailing. Fabbri was with the Blues for their Stanley [...]

Frozen Tools Forensics: Breakout Thresholds for Pinto, McTavish, Johnston, Peterka, Neighbours, and Perfetti

By |2025-11-21T07:47:31-05:00November 21st, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

Back in August we used this article posted on June 30th, 2022 to identify a few potential breakout candidates for 2025-26. The summary is that there tends to be a game count by which players start to break out. In this case breakout is defined as a 25 percent year-over-year increase. What they found is [...]

Frozen Tools Forensics: Breakout Thresholds for Shane Pinto, Mason McTavish, Cole Perfetti, and More

By |2025-08-08T17:16:44-04:00August 8th, 2025|Frozen Tools Forensics|

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 in this column we review the 4th year breakout candidates, but [...]

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