The Hockey Pool: Cool New Stuff

What's New
Sorted in reverse chronological order.

Apr 22, 2025 Added a Top Scorers Per Round chart for playoff pools to show which players scored best that round, and which Poolie team they are on. Go to Customize Charts as the Administrator to enable the display of this chart for your pool.
Apr 22, 2025 Added a Bracket Challenge Pool where you and your Poolies can predict which teams will win each round and in how many games and have points calculated.
Mobile Optimized View
Apr 10, 2025 Show the top scorers on playoff teams head-to-head
Mar 10, 2025 Check out our Blog where we analyze over a decade worth of fantasy hockey pool drafts to find strategies that help you win, er, or at least draft better!
Sep 9, 2025 THE STRENGTH CHART! - better at ranking teams than the NHL's Current Standings / playoff seeding
Sep 9, 2024 Copy scoring from a different pool login - at the bottom left of the Admin page
August 7, 2024 We've been remiss on posting our updates here! We've done lots over the years not listed and this year, we've moved to a new server which should allow us to modernize further, and continue to improve our reliability!
Wed Nov 9/16 Score Empty Net goals, assists and +/- separately. Score ALL Shootout goals and attempts, not just the winner.
Thu Oct 27/16 Change all Centers, Left and Right wingers into Forwards (or visa-versa) on the Admin page just below the Initialize & Edit Pool button.
Fri Jan 8/16 New non-scoring player types added to further sort your players: "alt" Center, Right, Left, Defence, Goalie, Penalty and Bonehead. These new positions allow you to keep your benched players as their position type, but parked in a position that will not score.
Mon Apr 3/16 Show a limited date-range for your pool (e.g. Oct 6 - Nov 6 stats at any time) using link just at the top of the Current Standings chart.
Mon Oct 26/15 New Box Draft charts and features.
Spice up your pool selection process with a bidding draft.
Mon Oct 6/14 Head-to-Head Pools Pool that have standings based on how many points teams earn week-to-week in head-to-head contests.
Mon Aug 25/14 Use the same pool login year-to-year and with per-year pool tracking.
Tue Jan 25/13 Trash talk now scrolls across top of Daily Stats Page.
Tue Mar 20/12 Head-to-head match-ups of team records, better Magic Number predictions, and many other improvements to the NHL Standings Page.
Mon Mar 19/12 Chart added to track the Record of Teams vs. the top 8 in each Conference. A way to see how teams match up against the playoff bound teams.
Thu Dec 15/11 Points charts now display both 30 day and Full Season point gains for your pool (linked from top of your Current Standings Chart - see example).
Wed Nov 16/11 Best Undrafted Players Chart now has a link to Top 300 Undrafted Player stats at the top of that chart. View all undrafted players in the NHL this way using YOUR pool's scoring rules.
Tue Oct 25/11 Combine regular season stats with your playoff pool stats to give you a Current Standings column showing the combined points for both. Use the Regular Season Stats button on the Admin page to enable this.
Mon Oct 4/10 Your poolies can now enter their own teams by typing player names just like the Admin does.
Mon Aug 30/10 Improved formatting for the Daily Stats Page.
Sun Apr 18/10 Goaltending Team scoring for Win/Loss in Regulation, Overtime and ShootOut. (on Admin Page->Customize Point Scoring)
Sun Apr 18/10 Series Winning Goal stat added for playoffs. (on Admin Page->Customize Point Scoring)
Sat Apr 17/10 Add a record of Regular Season Stats to your Current Standings chart. (on Admin Page->Regular Season Stats)
Sat Apr 17/10 Set a minimum number of minutes a goalie has to play before their stats count. (on Admin Page->Customize Point Scoring)
Sun Jan 10/10 On-line box drafts now have a First-come-first-serve style registration that allows your poolies to register as many teams as they like. (on Admin Page->Show Box Draft Poolie Links)
Sat Jan 9/10 Olympic hockey pools!
January 2010 Active/Reserve bench movements - poolies can activate or de-activate players on their own teams according to the rules and timing that the administrator establishes.
December 2009 NHL Teams are selectable, tradable, etc. just like regular players, and you can now have an unlimited number of teams drafted by each poolie.
Thu Sep 17/09 Hide Box Draft Selections Block poolies from seeing other poolie's selections during the box draft selection period.
Tues Sep 15/09 Improved trading support Poolies can suggest their own trades, or pick up free agents. Your administrator sets the rules about who can do what with or without administrator permission.
Tue Sep 15/09 Improved feedback for Box Drafting & Salary Pools Player selection and salary totals are displayed on the box draft selection page and on the Administrator's Initialize & Edit Pool page.
Sat Sep 5/09 Player Salary Cap Hit The "Hit" that a player is charged towards the Salary Cap can be different from his reported Salary for the year. This feature lets you select which number is used. More Info
Mon Aug 31/09 Player Salaries are initialized to what our latest information is on their actual NHL Salaries. If you change the salary for your league, the changed salary will be stored. This provides you with a starting point as has been requested by numerous pools. More Info
Sat Apr 04/09 Draft on-line! Premium feature allows you to enter the picks interactively as you draft. Shows you the best undrafted scorers, instantaneous draft selection charts. Allows remote drafters to follow along on-line (you'll still need to use VOIP, phone or IM to communicate picks from remote poolies at the moment). More Info
Wed Apr 01/09 Box Draft Pools now support multiple selections per box. More Info
Sun Nov 23/08 You can select wether Goalies appear in your Top 30 Scorers chart on the Customize Charts page.
Sun Nov 16/08 The Estimated Final Scores chart has been modified slightly to take into account pools that use a Top Scorers system.
Sun Oct 12/08 If you have a Top Scorers Pool or a Rotisserie Pool where you trade players, we have a new feature to combine players into a single player to have these pools work. Please contact us to find out more.
Sun Oct 12/08 On-line fantasy hockey pool drafting kit.
Sun Oct 12/08 Injury info appears in a popup if you hover over the injured players on your teams.
Wed Sep 19/07 Let your Poolies select their own BOX DRAFT TEAMS!
Sat Sep 1/07 Rotisserie style scoring.
Sun May 12/07 The BEST UNDRAFTED TEAM chart can now include Penalty players and Boneheads. Go to "Customize Charts".
Sun May 12/07 NHL Teams can now score ALL goalie goals and assists for their teams, no need to draft each and every goalie for a team anymore. Go to "Customize Scoring" and set the points at the bottom of that page.
Sun May 12/07 NHL Teams can now score on 0,1,2,3,4,5,and 6+ Goals For and Goals Against games. Go to "Set Goals Per Game Scoring" and set the points at the bottom of that page.
Sun May 12/07 NHL Teams can now score on Playoff Round Wins or Losses, including the final Cup Win or Loss. Go to "Set Goals Per Game Scoring" and set the points at the bottom of that page.
Sat Sep 16/06 Score Shootout WINNING Goals
Sat Sep 16/06 Box Draft pools now have an easier interface to select players for the administrator.
Sat Sep 16/06 An RSS Feed of your pool has been added at the top of the Daily Stats Page.
Spring 06 Most tables are now sortable by clicking on column header. If your browser runs out of memory trying to display a page with many tables, you might want to turn off JavaScript since the sortable tables are likely what is killing your memory.
Sat Oct 22/05 The "Days At Rank" stats have been added to the Current Standings chart.
Sat Oct 22/05 The Top 30 Scorers chart will print correctly for Box Draft pools if your administrator selects the "Box Draft" checkbox on the Customize Charts page.
Sun Oct 09/05 A whole bunch of new stats for this season: Shoot out goals, Face offs won/lost, Time on ice, Shifts, Hits, Take/Give aways, Blocked shots, Missed Shots, and Number of Penalties.
Sat Apr 24/04 Trash talk has a date- and time-stamped running log.
Sat Apr 24/04 Updating your Headline or Team Sorting will now take effect immediately rather than taking effect the next time your DailyStatsPage is cached.
Sat Apr 10/04 Added a "Most Commonly Drafted Players" chart for box draft pools (pools that allow multiple owners to select the same player).
Thu Apr 01/04 You can now customize the scoring for the playoff predictor.
Tue Oct 21/03 You can now add a password to prevent any unauthorized people from VIEWING the trash talk section.
Fri Oct 17/03 You can now select up to 6 NHL teams.
Sat Sep 20/03 Link for the administrator to return to the Admin page added to the Daily Stats Page.
Sat Sep 13/03 Change the start and end dates for ALL players on ALL teams from a single place on the Edit & Trade Players page.
Sat Sep 06/03 Pay with Credit Card in addition to PayPal added due to overwhelming requests.
Sat Oct 19/02 Goalies can now score points based on Minutes Played.
Fri Oct 18/02 Goalies can now score points based on Goals Against Average.
Fri Oct 04/02 Custom A, B & C players can now track goalie stats - useful if you draft multiple goalies with different scoring systems for each goalie.
Fri Oct 04/02 Customize Points now has a modified entry system that should work for Windows users who were experiencing problems.
Sun Apr 28/02 You can track player and goalie Goals Per Game (i.e. award extra points for scoring 0,1,2,3,4, or 5 goals in a game (not just a hattrick), & award goalies points for only letting in 0,1,2,3,4, or 5 goals in a game). Click here for more information.
Thu Mar 28/02 Use the Playoff Pool Draft Calculator for 2002
Sat Mar 23/02 The Standings page now shows who is mathematically eliminated from the playoffs as well as who has clinched playoff berths, and division and conference titles.
Sat 01/19/02 We track Olympic hockey pools!
Tue 01/01/02 There are new stats displayed for each NHL team on the Standings Page.
Mon 12/31/01 You can record Player Salaries and Player Bonus Points.
Tue 12/11/2001 Pools where only some owners draft NHL teams can be tracked with the addition of a "---none---" team option.
Thu 11/15/2001 Your administrator can now limit +/- to only count positively (all negative +/- will be zeroed).
Tue 11/06/2001 Regulation Ties for goalies are available as a scoring stats category.
Tue 11/06/2001 There is now a Tie Breaker field on the Admin>Initialize & Edit Pool>Edit Team page for you to keep track of any tie-breaking info for each team. Info entered into this field will appear on the Daily Stats Page under the Team Name on the Team By Team charts. This field is generally used to keep some prediction to be used in the event of a tie in your pool. (I.E. if there is a tie, the winner of the pool will be the person who most closely predicted the number of goals Toronto will score this season.)
Tue 10/30/2001 You can choose to sort your teams by Player Type. (ie. sorted by Forwards, Defence, Goalies, etc.)
Mon 10/29/2001 There is a Summary Page (Current Standings and Team by Team only) and a further "Just Standings Page" option at the top of the Current Standings chart.
Specify # of Wingers & Centers For Scoring (not just Forwards/Defence) (Jan '01)
Players playing today indicated with an asterisk (*) in the team by team chart. (Nov '00)
Pool pages cached for faster access. (Oct '00)
See monthly scoring totals in the past 10/20/30/Month chart. (Sep '00)
The Best Undrafted Team listing has a button to take you to a chart showing you when the players scored. (Feb 1/00)
A Taunt Message Board has been added so you and your fellow poolies can leave important messages for one another every day. (Jan 20/00)
Specify the number and position of players on pools that limit team scoring to the Top Point Getting Players. (Jan 9/00)
You can specify the number of players by position for the undrafted team from the Adminstrator's Customize Charts link. (Dec 29/99)
See when points were scored by your team. A week by week scoring breakdown is available off of the Daily Stats Page for each team. (Dec 17/99)
Any given player can now be on a team any number of times in a timed player trade. (Nov 29/99)
A Text Field Is Available For Broadcasting A Message To All Your Poolies. (Oct 23/99)
Monthly summaries of points scored is available in the 'Points Gained in the Last 10, 20 & 30 Days' chart. (Oct 14/99)
Decimal totals for custom point scoring. (ie. 31 times .5 = 15.5) (Oct 11/99)
New Points Categories; Hat Tricks, Games Played For Players. (Oct 1/99)
Penalty Kills, Power Play Goals, Short Handed Goals and Shut Out Point Categories For Teams. (Sep 28/99)
Pick up to 2 NHL Teams, each with different scoring. (Sep 26/99)
The Playoff Draft Calculator; Predict The Round by Round Playoff Winners and We'll Generate a Pick List for You! (Apr '99)
Taunt your fellow poolies by winning the right to have your own headline printed. (Mar 06/99)
Timed Trades (keep player points before or after a certain date only). (Jan 20/99)
Customize which charts appear on which days. (Dec 26/98)
Pick a team as well as players. (Dec 12/98)
Last night's scores are printed on the daily stats page. (Dec 1/98)
A more compact summary page is available from the daily stats page. (Nov 27/98)
Only Score Your Top # of Scorers. (Nov 16/98)
Click here to suggest new Headlines. (Nov 20/98)
Customize how your team is sorted. (Nov 10/98)
Customizable player points! (Oct 21/98)

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