How to Play — NHL

One mystery roster. Three questions. Every day.

The basics

Restreak is a daily sports game. Each day, for every sport, you get the full roster and stat table for one mystery team-season — with the team name, season, and record hidden. Pick your sport from the tabs at the top (more sports on the way), and figure out all three:

• Team — pick the franchise from the dropdown. Eras matter, and the franchise's name of the day is the answer: the 1978 Buffalo Braves and today's Los Angeles Clippers are one franchise but two answers — same for the Hartford Whalers and the Carolina Hurricanes.
• Season — pick the season the roster is from.
• Record — pick whether the team's regular-season win total landed over or under the line.

Lock in all three answers, hit Submit, and see how you did. Everyone in the world gets the same rosters on the same day, and new ones arrive at midnight. You can play each sport once per day.

Scoring

• Each correct answer is worth 3 points.
• Get all three right and you earn a +1 bonus for a perfect 10.
• Close counts on the season. One season off on either side earns 2 points; two seasons off earns 1.
• Team and record are all or nothing. You name the franchise of the day and pick the right side of the over/under — or you don't.

Streaks and the leaderboard

Play on consecutive days to build a streak. Any sport counts — playing one game keeps your streak alive; you don't have to play them all. Miss a full day and it resets. With a free account (verified email), your scores, streaks, and question-by-question averages are saved forever, and you'll appear on the leaderboard. You can play without an account, but your results only live in your browser — and streaks reset.

NHL strategy

The same instincts work in every sport: the names are the clue — recognize one player and their career arc narrows the era fast. Sorting the table by the headline stat surfaces the stars. And missing stats are a time machine — a dash (—) means the stat wasn't tracked in that era. A few NHL-specific tells:

• No ice-time columns (TOI / ATOI)? Before 1997-98 — the league didn't track it.
• Goalies with a T (ties) column in use are pre-2005-06; after the lockout, ties became overtime losses.
• A games-played leader around 48 points to the 1994-95 or 2012-13 lockout season; around 56, the 2020-21 COVID season.

Playing another sport? NBA rules · NFL rules · MLB rules.

House rules

• One play per sport, per day — no retries, no take-backs.
• The rosters roll over at midnight, your local time.
• No looking things up. (We can't stop you. But you'll know.)