Puckdoku - Daily NHL Trivia Game

[Eskimo Brother]

Puckdoku Game 63 - 9/9��:


323 Uniqueness


28/16/71
35/31/44
30/20/48


Definitely a day to go for a high score

Only missed the consensus on one square, and I really should have gotten that one too.

[tweetdrivr]

8/9 - could not come up with someone who played for CBJ and Tampa. Went with a goalie I thought had been both places but was wrong. And yes, Conn Smythe were all big scorers.

[PenguinHunter]

8/9 consensus picks today!!

Conne Smythe there are only so many options for teams
All three of the teams for this are recent cup winners.

And for all the other squares today, they all have recent trades and popular signings.


uniqueness 322!!

[Pengwin7]

Wow... yeah, today was a day for high-uniqueness.
ooof... only 281 for me.

28/36/71
10/30/28
18/13/47

Only 5/9 consensus.

TB Conn Smythe... I grew up playing D... so that one was a big deal for me to see a guy finally get his due as a valuable D1.
CHI-MON... I somehow spaced on the recent trade and as soon as I came up with an oft-traded WHL (fantasy) guy that is now in his dad's Toronto jersey, I went with that.
CHI-CBJ... I own a CBJ jersey of the big name forward that is now in NYR - and went with that. Not consensus.
And for TB/CBJ... that was the hardest one... I'm shocked how many hockey fans appear to be able to recall a one-playoff-run trade-in D...
I went with a goalie who at least played several seasons for both teams. That SHOULD have been consensus, IMO. My guy has his name on the cup TWICE!!! More points!!!
Also - my guy had pit stop in Toronto between teams - and I'd have thought the Toronto folk would've picked him more. Ah. Well.

People can or can't remember the TB D-men from their B2B Stanley Cup in 2020/2021... pick one guy, but not the other.
This defenseman is waggling a finger at yous!!!

[4T2]

Damn. For some reason I thought Prospal made his way to Montreal at some point.

I could have sworn Ryan Murray played in Chicago

[Pengwin7]

Damn. For some reason I thought Prospal made his way to Montreal at some point.

Ha! I thought of Vaclav Prospal today too!
Crazy that he had a season with TB where he fit inside of Brad Richards.... MSL/Vinny in scoring!
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/...000552006.html

[lusshouse]

16/14/11
1/18/23
5/2/34
Uniqueness 124, probably a top-score low for me. I rarely get 9/9 to be honest.

Didn't want to waste 2 spots so went for concensus picks > taking a guess.

[Pengwin7]

Finallllllllly.... had a shot to go for a low score. Used some defensemen (benefit of me actually caring about defensive hockey).
Did well! - but did not expect my OTT/NYR player to be #2... figured both sides of the trade from 5 years ago would be highest.

9/9. Uniqueness 49. No consensus players!

My most obscure pick was a guy who had put up two big 50pt seasons for Detroit (in the shadows of Lidstrom-Kronwall).
One of my buddies' brothers - for some reason - bought his jersey - and the next year he signs with ANA.
The NEXT year he moves over to Atlanta - and his bio was written up on those little free team magazines they used to have at games.
0.6% there.

I got to throw in my favourite spot-PIM guy from 3-5 years ago - everybody from RHRS will remember my affection for this guy.
And I used old "wonky eye". Still feel bad for that guy. And as many defensemen as I could. Plus a great-name-goalie.

Wish I could've done better on my OTT/NYR, ANA/NYI, and ANA/OTT picks... but I just couldn't recall any obscure guys.

My 0.2% on the 1000+GP/5+team square is my new low for a player.
Nobody remembers solid stay-at-home foreigner defensemen. I did.
I mean... he was THE guy to start a new franchise... before there was Hedman.
I had a Beckett Hockey monthly magazine with him on the cover! (Probably still do).

 

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[Invictus]

I missed getting in on the big uniqueness day...

Today was easy mode, I prep'd for a day like this... sticks, pucks and open net all aligned today.
5+ different teams OH I was already all over that with my list of players that would score me low.
People don't think of where players go to fade away so that was my strategy there. Little trick for the 1000+ GP category.

Honestly was a little worried putting Daigle in as I thought he would be remembered more. I've used him before.
I was my box 9 pick for the Who Am I? thread so that helped there.
My middle box pick I went to University with his cousin.

These players should not have scored me so low...
Besides my 5+ career picks (that were prep'd) these guys aren't nobodies...

Uniqueness 9

 

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[Invictus]

Uhhh
if you add my percentages that's displayed its 10.4%, not 9.
For P7's it comes to 51.4. Not sure what they are doing in the calculations to be that much difference.

@Pengwin7
Your NYI/ANA pick at 10% seems so high. I would have been quite confident putting him in and expecting under 2%.
I've used your OTT/NYR pick and knew he would likely score over 6% so I avoided.
Never heard of your NYI/NYR pick.
Your bottom row is great, i've been trying to use the last two players for a while now. I could have used the third player, but I didn't think he would score me very high % so went with someone more popular at the time.

[Invictus]

Figured it out. All % is rounded down. So scoring under 1% in each box will net you a zero uniqueness score.

For mine: 2+1+3+2 = 9
For P7's: 18+1+18+10+2= 49

[Pengwin7]

Jeez... 9... That's impressive with Carl Voss.
I've never heard that name in my entire life.
You are officially the deepest knower of hockey I've ever encountered!
I think I'm officially done with competing in this game!!!

[Invictus]

Neither did I before this game came out. I didn't know your one pick either.

I just got lucky on my strategy breaking right, because normally Lafleur, Fedorov, Weight, McCabe, Daigle should total much more than 7%.

But there's only 9 players that have played on 10 or more teams. All have played with 10 teams except Mike Sillinger who has played on 12.
Some of the names on the list are more consensus picks so for the lowest % competition I had to expand. There's 17 players that have played on 9 different teams. Carl Voss just happened he was first up for 9 different team players.

I have to credit prep work. Can't really prep for highest uniqueness.
Besides the Silfverberg pick your picks are probably more unique than mine... I just lucked out.

My one miss was using Doug Weight instead of J.J. Daigneault - that would have saved me 2%. I avoided picking Mathieu Schneider (there was a couple boxes he could be put in) as I thought he would have a higher % than he ended up having.

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[Invictus]

Not feeling great so goal was just to finish.
Got only three consensus but did get 5 of the 2nd choice.
Picking Belfour instead of the top pick brings you down a lot

[PenguinHunter]

If anyone is still playing this game... today is the day to go for extreme lows!!

With categories such as:

-drafted in Round 2+
- WHL
- played for Team Canada
- 500 games played...

It was really easy to get a low uniqueness score - 16


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