Remembering some guys through Puckdoku

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 336 - 7/9:

209 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Vegas' logo means death

Of course, nothing can get me a low score with Vegas on the board... I thought Michael Hutchinson would have gotten at least one game with them, but of course he didn't...

Also messed up on TBL/WSH, I keep forgetting that Taormina and Urbom played for each of these teams and the Devils, but not both

I'm obviously not the biggest Vegas expert...


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Finally caught on to the Toms train, huh?

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 337 - 9/9:

2 Uniqueness

Spoiler: The Tragically Yip

This is one of those games where I am actually quite disappointed I didn't get a 0.0%

It's also one of those games where my score might come down later....

 

[DitchMarner]

Looks like I may have made the wrong Leschyshyn on the middle square.

 

[kvladimir]

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Looks like I may have made the wrong Leschyshyn on the middle square.

Yep. He's well known for playing for Quebec/Colorado, so you want him for combos of OTT/WSH/MIN/CAR

 

[Golden_Jet]

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Looks like I may have made the wrong Leschyshyn on the middle square.

No he’s the only one that played for both teams.

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 338 - 9/9:

6 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Fast Lane

Ew.

 

[DitchMarner]

I could not think of an answer for CLB/SJ other than Whitney...

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 339 - 9/9:

9 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Blame it on McCrae

Eh, this is alright considering the bottom row category...

 

[DitchMarner]

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 340 - 5/9:

403 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Vachon, Vachoff

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Well, this was a trip and a half! Olympic medals? Crap. Vezina? Crap! HHOF???? OH COME ON.

[DET/HHOF] Roger Crozier - you know, for a guy who won Calder, Conn Smythe, and (I thought?) the Vezina, you would think he'd be in the HHOF...

[CHI/Olymp. Gold] Petri Kontiola - was on the '18 Finns, not the '22 Finns!

[CHI/Olymp. Gold] Gave this one another go and guessed Bondra - .......... forgot he's Slovakian...........

[CHI/BUF] And the cherry on top... Robert Dirk did not play for BUF... must be thinking of a different Dman...

 

[DitchMarner]

That bottom row...

9% for Leino, eh?

 

[Brodeur]

Spoiler

Bah, incorrectly guessed Kim Johnsson for CHI+gold medal. And then I forgot that rule that they had to win the Vezina while as a member of that team, so I put in Grant Fuhr who won it as an Oiler.

I forgot that Nikolai Khabibulin would have worked for CHI+gold medal. Khabibulin won in 1992 as the young third string goalie. Infamously long time Russian coach Viktor Tikhonov took Khabibulin's medal (coaches don't receive medals). Khabibulin was bitter about that and had others issues with the old guard which led to him to sit out the 1998 Olympics. The IOC eventually presented Khabibulin with a replacement medal at the 2002 Olympics.

 

[DitchMarner]

WTF? You can have more than nine "shots" now?

 

[Brodeur]

WTF? You can have more than nine "shots" now?

It stops you at 9 and then there should be 'Keep Going' under options.

 

[DitchMarner]

LMAO... I sucked today. This has to be my worst score ever... absolute ass.

1. I thought Scott Pellerin played for ATL (it was MIN).
2. I originally selected Shane MacEachern (who the hell is that?!) instead of Shawn McEachern for the WPG/OTT square.
3. I chose Warrener for the wrong square; didn't realize I had my cursor on the BUF/one team square.

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 341 - 9/9:

2 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Sky Pilut

Crookshank (Langley Rivermen legend!) has such a great name, but I can't think of a good pun for him today, hopefully I get the chance to pick him again in future?

This was pretty good... glad I remembered Vigneault, I was not sure Sejna or Cajanek only played for STL (they did), and couldn't think of others except totally obvious current STL players (like Kyrou )

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 342 - 7/9:

202 Uniqueness

Spoiler: McInnis to win it

Getting to do the MacInnis/McInnis combo almost makes me forget how terrible this game was...

Speaking of which...

Spoiler: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[DitchMarner]

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 343 - 9/9:

25 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Zalap Shot

Well, they certainly made a good score absolutely, totally impossible today...

Ugh, I was close to picking Lalime instead of Niemi for PIT/CHI G, but I wasn't 100% sure Lalime played for CHI... Also just straight up forgot about Gerber and Giguere for CAR/TOR G

 

[DitchMarner]

#Goalied.

Also, I thought Phil Housley played for CAR briefly... lol.

 

[DitchMarner]

Uuuuggghhh... confused Benoit Hogue with Mike Hough, thinking Hogue played for QUE.

 

[kvladimir]

Puckdoku Game 344 - 8/9:

101 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Can't Weinhandl the truth

Ugggh, another one I blew on the last pick, should have been a 0 game. Oddly, I always thought of Mattias Weinhandl as a top-6 guy who just only played in the NHL for a few years - turns out he never even got a 10 goal season, and only had 19 overall...

Puckdoku Doku Jr - 14/32:

231 Uniqueness

Spoiler: Jussi me rollin'

I appreciate the challenge, so I won't complain about my awful score, or the fact that this is probably one of the few combinations of teams I couldn't even name 16 players for...

Looking at the list and getting annoyed at who I forgot in 3, 2, 1...

WHITNEY (both of them)! KULIKOV! TIKKANEN! BJUGSTAD! BENNING! SHEAHAN! DVORAK! KRAVCHUK! GRIFFITH! BRASSARD! Should have had ALL OF THESE!

Samsonov and Gilbert... legit did not remember these guys playing for FLA...

 

[DitchMarner]

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Looking at the list and getting annoyed at who I forgot in 3, 2, 1...

WHITNEY (both of them)! KULIKOV! TIKKANEN! BJUGSTAD! BENNING! SHEAHAN! DVORAK! KRAVCHUK! GRIFFITH! BRASSARD! Should have had ALL OF THESE!

Samsonov and Gilbert... legit did not remember these guys playing for FLA...
[/SPOILER]

I could only think of four answers. I put Ray Whitney, Mellanby, Dvorak and Reasoner and then gave up. I should have had Gelinas as well. I seriously don't remember many of the guys on your grid playing for both teams.

 

[DitchMarner]

I'm no AHL expert; I'll take that score all day...

 

[Hockey Outsider]

I misread the 100+ assists category as 1,000+ assists. Still, 14 is a really good score for me. But I would have picked Syd Howe, which would have gotten me into the single digits.