Remembering some guys through Puckdoku

[HansonBro]

I don't know why someone would play this without going 100% from memory. If you're looking up answers (and those who get those ridiculous scores definitely look it up), then it's not even a game.

Put it this way, I've been watching hardcore since '93. I used to buy the hockey almanac and actually read through it every year, played every new EA game, played hardcore fantasy hockey for a good decade before moving to sim hockey AND have been creating player ratings for sim hockey for over a decade now which requires researching everyone who plays at least a single NHL game every season... and I don't get anywhere close to these sub 1.0% grids that people post.

Not to say that I'm the hockey player memory god, and other people can't know more than me about it. Just highlighting that I have a really, really, really solid base of knowledge on NHL players and I don't even approach those numbers, so I don't believe it in the slightest if someone posts a full grid of sub 1.0% players day after day without looking it up. And circling back to the original point, if you're looking up the answers you're not actually playing a game at that point, you're simply doing player research.

We all know this by now. But i feel people can play as they like. Maybe its just a way to kill time at the office for them. Im guilty of it most days myself. I do the squares i can and then its off to DB just to finish. Thats just how I enjoy my morning coffee. I learn alot about players ive long forgotten about and it passes the time for a retiree. I also dont mind seeing the low scores posted as some kind of seem obvious after the fact.

Bottom line is, its just a game and people can play as they like. Im lucky if i finish half of them on my own and i do feel im knowledgeable in the game

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 135 - 6/9:

307 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Bellowed "This sucks!"

[BUF/PIT] John Cullen (must have had his selection by BUF in a supplemental draft in my head, but he never played for them)

[DAL/50+ assists] Ray Whitney (hit this 4 times, including the season before going to DAL, but never with them)

[BUF/50+ assists] Derek Roy (ahhhh, classic - he topped out at 49 assists, and had 3 other 40+ seasons! )

Puckdoku Doku Jr - 4/4:

50 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Shipped out

Sometimes, you just can't predict whether the higher percentages will be from players currently on the team, or "that one guy who was a big story, but ultimately only played a couple games for the team years ago" - I guessed wrong

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 136 - 8/9:

111 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Simon's opponent says: "Oof!"

Today in NHL Hallucinations Daily: Brent Sopel was apparently a Duck!

 

[Teemu]

Spoiler

Cakes!

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 137 - 7/9:

200 Uniqueness

Spoiler: AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

A masterpiece ruined by:

-Forgetting that Will Acton never actually played for VAN, just got traded to them, and

-Completely blanking on which goalies were undrafted, just wasn't 100% certain on any of them: Bryz, Talbot, Danny Sabourin, Mike Hutchinson, Curtis McElhinney, Sanford, Husso, Niemi, I ran sooooo many through my mind, but not ONE was like "yeah, that guy is 100% undrafted". Went with Johan Hedberg, and well...

 

[ES]

Guess this one?

Spoiler: Today's most popular pick for Undrafted goalie

David Ayres

 

[Mohar Ikram]

Puckdoku Game 137 - 9/9:

45 Uniqueness

Puckdoku

Guess NHL players based on team, season, and stats. Choose wisely, as you only get 9 shots to fill the board.

www.puckdoku.com

Welp, it surprised me how the heck people go for Lucic in Flames/Oilers crossover.

Dude, the best player for that is Martin Gelinas who is almost won SC with both franchise!

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 138 - 9/9:

14 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Dowd in the dumps...

This actually ended up being an ok score after a rough start.... (way too many people remember Branko Radivojevic and that Sam Gagner played for the Flyers very, very briefly! ) Also, I had Eric Boulton pegged for the WPG/NJD slot, but I suddenly wasn't sure if I remembered him playing for the Thrashers, or if I was just thinking of him randomly scoring that hat trick against them! Would have been 0.8% if I went for it...

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 139 - 9/9:

6 Uniqueness

Spoiler: No need to Yanic

Took me way too long to think of him...

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 140 - 8/9:

118 Uniqueness

Spoiler

Ugh, I need some Nikitin after this one...

Why do I remember Campoli playing for CBJ?

Thought of Ranford for DET/WSH, Anders Eriksson for CBJ/DET, Dan Quinn for STL/OTT, and Dmitry Samorukov for STL/KHL, but was less than 100% sure on all of them, sooo...

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 141 - 9/9:

9 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Hnat's all, folks!

Wow, this game was the opposite of my usual track: first 2 picks: 9 uniqueness, last 7 picks: 0

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 142 - 9/9:

10 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Flawless Vincoury!

Pretty good game... thought of Comeau and Sydor for PIT/CBJ, thought they'd be higher %

Puckdoku Doku Jr - 1/4:

303 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Kent Miss... or can I?

Lol, this was DOA with "WHA" as a category

(BOS/QUE): Thought Bob Bassen played for BOS
(BOS/MNS): Picked Andy Moog, when I was actually thinking of Jon Casey
(QUE/WHA): Had no idea on this one, so picked a random player I knew was playing for QUE in the early 80s (Bo Berglund)

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 143 - 7/9:

203 Uniqueness

Spoiler: I don't know Dan...

I feel like I got Dan Quinn (for OTT/NYR) mixed up with someone else...

Matt Beleskey, on the other hand, I don't know why I thought he scored 30 in his UFA year... maybe because he was on pace for 30, and that was talked about a lot? Very strange...

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 144 - 8/9:

103 Uniqueness

Spoiler

Had a score of 0 after 5 picks, 2 after 7, and then for some reason whiffed on the last pick thinking Anson Carter (LA) was a QMJHL guy!

Also thought of Berard, Czerkawski, and Potvin for BOS/TOR, and Fiset, Potvin, Boucher and Aubin for LAK/QMJHL, but in all of these cases, I either wasn't 100% sure they played for the team, or I figured they'd be popular picks, but they were all under 1%

 

[VikingAv]

Puckdoku Game 144 - 8/9:

103 Uniqueness

Spoiler

Had a score of 0 after 5 picks, 2 after 7, and then for some reason whiffed on the last pick thinking Anson Carter (LA) was a QMJHL guy!

Also thought of Berard, Czerkawski, and Potvin for BOS/TOR, and Fiset, Potvin, Boucher and Aubin for LAK/QMJHL, but in all of these cases, I either wasn't 100% sure they played for the team, or I figured they'd be popular picks, but they were all under 1%

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Potvin fits all nine boxes, doesn't he?
I'm so pissed at myself for forgetting a former Norwegian Av on todays game
Got all nine, but the only chance I have of getting a low score is remembering obscure former Avs

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 145 - 8/9:

147 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Lame-o

Gave up on this one quickly, after noticing the VGK column and getting my first square wrong by confusing Petr Skudra with Johan Hedberg

 

[VikingAv]

Puckdoku Game 145 - 8/9:

147 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Lame-o

Gave up on this one quickly, after noticing the VGK column and getting my first square wrong by confusing Petr Skudra with Johan Hedberg

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I got a uniqueness of 123, with all nine correct, thanks to that Vegas column Even freaking Bellemare was 36%
Got 5 former Avs on the other 6 grids, though, so it looked nice for a while

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 146 - 8/9:

108 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Ashamed

I had a score of 0 after the first 5 picks!

I also apparently confused Nelson Emerson with Dave Manson... Demers was the other guy I was thinking of picking, he of 0.2%

Plotnikov was a good pull, but otherwise, uggggggh

 

[Voight]

Spoiler

Did a knee jerk move and chose Legwand. Tho if I cheated like may do, I suppose I would've been better off.

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 147 - 8/9:

107 Uniqueness

Spoiler: D'ohpre!

Screwed up on the last pick... man Don Beaupre was bad, a #1 goalie in the 90s should have been a slam dunk for less than 2.50 GAA

Definitely should have gone for Olesz or Cullimore over Borgstrom

Almost got Krivokrasov and Nikolishin mixed up (one played for the Avs, the other scored a couple big playoff goals with CHI vs the Avs ), good thing I went with a safer pick...

 

[canuckster19]

I made my own puckdoku, for Canucks goalies

Note franchise rules apply, so goalies who played for the North Stars and Whalers count
Every one of these goalies was a starter at some point in their career, or a 1a/1b type starter, but maybe not known for being that in Vancouver.
You'll have to dig deep as most of these squares only have one option, and in the cases where there are multiple options, one of those goalies needs to be placed somewhere else on the board for it to work.

Sorry for the poor paint skills

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 148 - 7/9:

202 Uniqueness

Spoiler

Arizona / 5+ playoff goals single season? Evil. I guessed Housley

Also screwed up on DAL - Gartner. I really wish I was around for the '91 North Stars and could accurately remember more guys than Modano... (edit: holy crap, how did I not think of Neal Broten or Brian Bellows? AAAAAHHH)

On the plus side? Nailed that 40+ games / 5+ goals playoff category with a 0.0% courtesy of Mikael Samuelsson! (Also - 0.1% on Gelinas???? )

I made my own puckdoku, for Canucks goalies

Note franchise rules apply, so goalies who played for the North Stars and Whalers count
Every one of these goalies was a starter at some point in their career, or a 1a/1b type starter, but maybe not known for being that in Vancouver.
You'll have to dig deep as most of these squares only have one option, and in the cases where there are multiple options, one of those goalies needs to be placed somewhere else on the board for it to work.

Sorry for the poor paint skills

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I'm guessing you mean I am only allowed to fill that out with Canucks goalies? Ok then...

[CAR/DAL] Arturs Irbe
[CAR/LAK] Steve Weeks
[CAR/NYI] Richard Brodeur
[FLA/DAL] Alex Auld
[FLA/LAK] Sean Burke
[FLA/NYI] Roberto Luongo
[NYR/DAL] Corey Hirsch
[NYR/LAK] Dan Cloutier
[NYR/NYI] Kevin Weekes

Also, I know it's not part of this grid, but allow me to throw in:

[CAR/FLA] Kirk McLean

 

[canuckster19]

I always try to use goalies as much as possible.

Spoiler

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 149 - 9/9:

7 Uniqueness

Spoiler

Aww man, I wish I could have thought up more good Finns to use for this one... Finn-maxing!

Almost messed up MIN/CGY hard (was considering Backstrom, Roloson and Nolan, all of which were top 5 most selected ). Also, for MIN/ANA, I almost got Sgarbossa and Cramarossa confused, just couldn't quite remember the latter's name!

Puckdoku Doku Jr - 3/4:

102 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Salmelame

Apparently, Anssi Salmela didn't count because it needed to be games for ATL/WPG played during the 2010s, and all of his games with ATL in 09-10 before the Kovalchuk trade were before Jan. 1st, I guess?

No one can beat me on "close, but no cigar"!

 

[TropicOfNoReturn]

I'm guessing you mean I am only allowed to fill that out with Canucks goalies? Ok then...

[CAR/DAL] Arturs Irbe
[CAR/LAK] Steve Weeks
[CAR/NYI] Richard Brodeur
[FLA/DAL] Alex Auld
[FLA/LAK] Sean Burke
[FLA/NYI] Roberto Luongo
[NYR/DAL] Corey Hirsch
[NYR/LAK] Dan Cloutier
[NYR/NYI] Kevin Weekes

Also, I know it's not part of this grid, but allow me to throw in:

Nice, I had almost the same thing.
I used Kevin Weekes for CAR/NYI and Jaroslav Halak for NYR/NYI. Didn't use Richard Brodeur at all.