Remembering some guys through Puckdoku

[kvladimir]

Another score on Immaculate Grid worth mentioning... (2)

Spoiler: Hirsch so good

 

[mattihp]

Puckdoku Game 286 - 9/9:

118 Uniqueness





Not bad! Not good either though

Spoiler: Spoiler

I thought most had forgotten about Niinimaa on the Canadiens, but the meme brought it back I think.,.

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 286 - 8/9:

108 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Lalame Lehtdown

LOL, thought I figured out a great one by remembering the name of an obscure Swedish import who got traded from TOR to CBJ, woops guess not!

Missed on Fuhr for TOR, thought him playing through the mid-90s would have brought his save % down (it's Career Sv%, so that complicates things, or maybe it simplifies them actually?)

 

[DitchMarner]

So for the last square, I'm thinking, "Okay, JVB wasn't great with Philly, but he played on a pretty good team and in the f***ing Dead Puck Era; surely he managed at least a .900 sv%..."

Wrong!


Edit: No, the mistake I made was this: I thought the square was asking me for a goalie who had a save percentage of .900 or higher playing for Philly (in a particular season).

That column is for career save percentages. but it's a double-edged sword - had I know that, there's no way I would have selected goalies like Lehner and Bernier.

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 287 - 9/9:

7 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Niitty Gritty

Ugh, played it safe and got hit with fairly high %s on Niittymaki/Leblanc...

Picked Nils Ekman in the past for SJS/TBL, but I remember getting >1% for him, so went another way, should have stuck with him

Thought of Perezhogin for MTL/1st round, but couldn't remember if he was for sure a 1st rounder... Waaaay too many people remember Leblanc!

Thought of Dimitrakos for SJS/2+ rounders, but wasn't sure he was drafted...

 

[DitchMarner]

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 288 - 9/9:

15 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Uwe, gross!

Did I just do this too early or something? 9% on Krupp, what! 2% on Huet for LA/CHI?? What is this, seriously...

Puckdoku Doku Jr - 4/4:

29 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Cammo Whammo

Eh, not bad considering my knowledge of specific AHL teams...

 

[DitchMarner]

Ehhhh... knew Havlat wasn't that good an answer but could only think of him and Hartman. I've used Darby Hendrickson at least three or four times... He's one of my go-to answers when applicable.

 

[mattihp]

Puckdoku Game 289 - 9/9:

89 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

Spoiler: Spoiler

Pretty proud as I don't know jack squat about WHL so went with two buttwipes and Mark Stone

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 289 - 7/9:

201 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Sun of a Beech

Totally missed the "had to win the Cup on that team" part, so I whiffed on Bret Hedican, trying to complete my all-old-ex-Canucks grid

Also missed on Rick Lanz for VAN/BCHL, trying to be different, thought his looooong BCHL coaching career and high draft pedigree probably meant he was a WHL guy, but nope, he played in the OHA

Also, looking at the results: it is truly sad how unheralded and unremembered Tomas Sandstrom is!

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 290 - 9/9:

5 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Falloon Art

Eh... STL/ARZ and STL/OTT were tougher than I figured they'd be... of course, I always think of better picks right after picking someone else. Hello, Dan Quinn!

 

[DitchMarner]

Yes... killed it today.

 

[DitchMarner]

 

[kvladimir]

Busy couple days for me, so here's a two-fer:

Puckdoku Game 291 - 8/9:

110 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Pulkka Dots

Forgot Khudobin didn't get many games for MIN. Also - 3% ON PULKKINEN????

Puckdoku Game 292 - 9/9:

0 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Peanut Butter Janney Time!

 

[DitchMarner]

Ugh... I messed up as badly as someone failing to score on an open net breakaway by selecting Oleg Petrov for the wrong slot.

#PatrikStefan

 

[kvladimir]

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Ugh... I messed up as badly as someone failing to score on an open net breakaway by selecting Oleg Petrov for the wrong slot.

#PatrikStefan

Been there...

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 293 - 8/9:

100 Uniqueness

Spoiler: The Michal Jordan of Hockey

Lol, ironically I messed up on COL/1 team with Brandon Yip... who played for NSH! I got the Yips, one might say...

 

[Brodeur]

Spoiler

I always struggle with finding obscure ones for Nashville-Atlanta-Columbus-Minnesota for whatever reason.

With the Coyotes move to Utah, I looked up some past drafts where the relocated team didn't have a jersey ready for their first draft. Carolina took Tselios (cousin of Chris Chelios, his side of the family kept the Greek spelling) in 1997 and he was given a generic white jersey with the NHL crest because there had been ongoing litigation with the Hurricanes name.

Carolina was decimated with goalie injuries during the pandemic season and lured Jack LaFontaine out of college in the middle of the season which was unusual. He got in a couple games and got lit up unfortunately.

 

[DitchMarner]

I wonder what the best answer is for the WSH square. Who was their Captain right before the Lockout... Halpern? Didn't they have Witt as Captain for a while?

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 294 - 7/9:

205 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Kozlon... Kozlov

Slava Kozlov................. not on the '98 Russian Olympic team apparently?

Missed on Mattias Norstrom as well, for Captain/Medalist, thought for sure he'd have been on the '06 or '14 Swedish teams

 

[HabsQC]

Game 294 - 9/9 - 101 uniqueness

Spoiler

For some reason I was looking up Tom Poti yesterday

 

[kaiser matias]

Got hurt by thinking Konstantinov had an Olympic medal and Frank Boucher was a Rangers captain (he was later coach and GM, so it was a logical thought).

 

[Meuracas]

Game 294 - 9/9 - 101 uniqueness

Spoiler

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For some reason I was looking up Tom Poti yesterday

Spoiler

Finns are money on the olympic row…

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 295 - 9/9:

83 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Salo, my name is...

Oh jeez, what was even supposed to happen here? I could only think of Lehner for all 3, and then like... 6 goalies, 4 of which only worked for Buffalo...

 

[DitchMarner]

6% for Rich Peverley, eh?