A new online hockey game called ‘Puckdoku’ has taken the NHL community by storm, and many log on to play an updated game each day. Essentially, Puckdoku is a problem-solving game that requires players to guess which players played for any two given teams, or earned a particular award or stat whilst also playing for a specified team. The Puckdoku grid is 3×3, and players will have nine guesses to fill out nine boxes. For Philadelphia Flyers fans, these five players will be fixtures of your guesses.
But before we start here are the rules, per the Puckdoku site. If you already know the rules or just want to see the five Flyers, feel free to skip and scroll down.
- Choose a player in the cell that meets the row and column criteria
- The player must have played at least one regular or postseason season NHL game for the team to be counted
- If a cell is for an award/stat and a team, the player must have recorded the award/stat while on that team that season
- If a cell is for two stat categories, they do not need to be won in the same season
- Relocated teams count as a single team for the Teams Played category
- Players and stats follow the franchise when relocated. This means that players like Ilya Kovalchuk count for present-day Winnipeg Jets
- Teams that have been moved back under the same name do not count as the same team. 1990s Winnipeg Jets don’t count as present-day Jets
- A player can only be used once
- Once a player is chosen, the guess cannot be changed
- Every guess counts as a shot, regardless of its correctness
- If a player was traded mid-season for a stat and team category, season stats are not combined.
- Uniqueness is calculated from the sum of the percentages of each, plus 100 for every empty cell. The lower the score, the more rare each player pick was.
#5. Michael Del Zotto: Flyers, Rangers, Senators, Ducks, Blues, Predators, Canucks, Blue Jackets
Michael Del Zotto was never an elite NHL player, but he was elite at playing for a ton of NHL teams, though. The recently-retired blueliner played for eight teams over his 13-year career, including a three-year stint with the Flyers from 2014-2017.
Del Zotto won’t help you in the awards category, but he has played over 700 NHL games, with a good chunk coming from nearly half of the Metropolitan Division. Keep his name in the back of your head if you want to consistently score a good uniqueness rating.