🏒NHL FRANCHISE GRID

Name a player who matches both the row and the column. 9 cells, 9 wrong guesses allowed.

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NHL Franchise Grid: Daily Hockey Trivia

A 3x3 grid puzzle where each cell needs an NHL player whose career satisfies both the row and column. Rows and columns mix franchises with career milestones like 500 points, 300 goals or 1000 games played.

Nine cells, nine chances to prove your hockey memory runs deeper than last season.

Every row and column is a franchise or a career milestone, and each cell wants a player who satisfies both. If you have played a team grid before, this is the NHL one, built on a full all-era career database.

How to play NHL Franchise Grid, a free hockey trivia grid game

Read where a row meets a column

Look at where a row meets a column, like Bruins plus Canadiens, or Oilers plus 500+ Career Points.

Type a player who fits both categories

Tap the cell and type a player whose career fits both.

Lock in green or burn a guess

A correct pick locks the cell in green. A miss burns one of your 9 guesses.

Use every player name only once

Each player name can only be used once per board.

Fill all nine cells before you run out

Fill all 9 cells before the misses run out.

NHL Franchise Grid rules: guesses, categories and the daily board

Nine guesses and only misses count

You get 9 guesses, and only wrong answers spend one; correct answers are free.

Franchises and career milestone categories

Categories come from a pool of 16 franchises plus three milestones: 500+ career points, 300+ career goals and 1000+ games played.

The daily board and unlimited tiers

The daily grid mixes one milestone with five franchises, and everyone gets the same board until midnight Eastern.

Unlimited mode adds difficulty tiers: Easy runs two milestone lines, Hard goes all franchises.

NHL Franchise Grid walkthrough: nine cells and one hunch

Rows of Leafs, Oilers and Bruins

Imagine rows of Maple Leafs, Oilers and Bruins against columns of Red Wings, Canadiens and 500+ Career Points. Oilers plus 500 points is a layup: Jari Kurri.

Closing it out nine for nine

Maple Leafs plus Red Wings takes a traveler like Larry Murphy, and Bruins plus Canadiens rewards remembering that Mark Recchi wore both sweaters. You burn one guess on a hunch who never actually played in Detroit, then close it out 9 for 9.

NHL Franchise Grid tips for naming players under pressure

Franchise cells reward late career trades

Franchise pair cells love journeymen. Think late career trades, not one club legends.

Milestone cells are your safety valve

Milestone cells are your safety valve; every franchise in the pool has plenty of 500 point scorers.

There is no rarity bonus, so play the safest name you know.

Any era counts in the career database

Answers check instantly against the career database, and any era counts, from Original Six days to last season.

NHL Franchise Grid FAQ: guesses, eligible players and the daily grid

Do correct answers use up guesses?

No. Only misses, unknown names and repeated names cost one of the 9.

Which players are eligible?

Anyone in the all-era NHL career database, thousands of skaters across every decade, not just current rosters.

Does the daily grid have difficulty settings?

No. Tiers only apply to unlimited grids. The daily is one shared board for everybody.

Is NHL Franchise Grid free to play?

Yes. NHL Franchise Grid is free to play on DoUKnowBall, right in your browser. No download and no signup needed.

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