NHL Puckdoku answers and clues: July 30th, 2023

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WARNING: THERE ARE PUCKDOKU SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT CONTINUE SCROLLING IF YOU DON’T WANT TODAY’S PUZZLE SPOILED FOR YOU.

The new game “puckdoku” is taking the hockey world by storm. Here’s how it works. There’s a 3×3 grid, and each row and column are marked with either a team or a statistic of some sort. You have to guess players who meet the criteria for both the column and the row for the square you’re on. For example…if your square is in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ column and the St. Louis Blue row…Ryan O’Reilly would work. If it’s in the Washington Capitals column and the row says “40+ goals in a season”, Alex Ovechkin would work. You can play the daily Puckdoku puzzle here:

There’s also a rarity score in the form of a percentage next to the player you guess…the lower the percentage, the more rare the guess. Once you start getting used to the game, you want to shoot for a low rarity score.

Without further ado, here are some hints for today’s puckdoku puzzle.

Panthers/Flyers: Player spent the majority of his career with the Flyers

Capitals/Flyers: Player is a top-three point producer in NHL history

Flames/Flyers: Player currently owns a team and plays for them overseas

Panthers/Coyotes: Player was the holder of the NHL’s ironman streak for a long time

Capitals/Coyotes: Player is a goaltender who won a Stanley Cup recently

Flames/Coyotes: Player is a goaltender who most recently played for the Edmonton Oilers

Panthers goaltender: Player was on the cover of NHL 97

Capitals goaltender: Player is from Germany

Flames goaltender: Player is from Finland and spent most of the late 2000s/early 2010s with the team

The most popular answers to today’s Puckdoku puzzle are below this picture of referees. Don’t scroll if you don’t want spoilers!