How to play

• You make 6 selections: 3 forwards, 2 defensemen, 1 goalie.
• Each pick, hit SPIN to roll a random franchise and decade.
• The bucket lists every eligible player from that franchise in that decade.
• Choose any player, click any open slot on the rink they're eligible for.
• One respin per tile per game: you can re-roll the franchise tile or the decade tile, but not both twice.

Slots are 1 C, 1 LW, 1 RW, 2 D, 1 G. A wing can't fill a center slot. Multi-position cards (C / LW, D / RW) light up every eligible slot when you pick them.

Skaters use Net Ratings from The Athletic (Dom Luszczyszyn): a player's impact on goal differential, in goals, above an average player at their usage, per 82 games. Goalies use GSAA (goals saved above average) from Hockey Reference.

OFF / DEF / NET

Offensive, defensive, and total Net Rating (skaters), in goals/82.

G / A / PTS / +/− / PIM

Per 82 box-score stats from Hockey Reference.

GSAA

Goalie goals saved above league average per 82.

W / SV% / GAA / SO / GPS

Standard goalie stats.

Minimum 41 GP

Per-season-per-team threshold for both skaters and goalies.

Toggle the difficulty in the play header. Picks always sort by the most informative stat the mode allows.

Easy

All stats including Off/Def. Sorted by PTS (goalies by GSAA).

Medium

Box-score stats only. No ratings. Sorted by PTS.

Hard

Just names. Alphabetical. Pure recognition.

Your lineup is scaled to a full team's usage and added to an era-neutral baseline of 6 goals per game. Goalie GSAA prevents additional goals against. Pythagorean win expectancy turns the resulting goals-for and goals-against into a single per-game win probability. The sim then runs 82 independent coin flips at that probability to produce a record.

League context is fixed at that 6-goals-per-game baseline, so 1970s Orr and 2020s McDavid compete on the same scale.