The Rules

Choose any NHL team to open its pick sheet, which lists every one of that team’s regular-season games. For each game you can make two predictions, always from that team’s side:

Result

Tap W, L, or OTL. Tap the same button again to clear it.

Combined goals

Set the total number of goals both teams will score, using − and + or by typing a number.

You can make one prediction without the other, and you can change either one as often as you like until the game starts. You can fill out as many team sheets as you want.

Short on time? Upcoming Picks on the home page lists the next few days of games for every sheet you’ve started, and you can pick them right there.

To have your picks count, sign in and choose a username. Picks made while signed out are saved only in that browser, and they’re added to your account the next time you open that sheet while signed in, as long as those games haven’t started.

Points are awarded once a game is final, usually within about 15–30 minutes of the final horn.

Result: 1 point

Your pick earns a point when it matches how the game ended for the sheet’s team:

Combined goals: 1 point

Your number must match the total of both teams’ goals in the official final score exactly. Being off by one earns nothing. Empty-net goals count.

Shootouts: the official final score gives the shootout winner one extra goal, and stickpicks uses that same score. A game tied 2–2 after overtime and won in a shootout goes in the books as 3–2, so the combined goals are 5.

All from the Seattle Kraken’s sheet.

Both predictions for a game lock at puck drop, the scheduled start time. After that, they can’t be added, changed, or cleared, and the site enforces this, not just the buttons. “Clear all picks” (in a sheet’s More menu) only clears games that haven’t started.

If the NHL moves a game, its picks follow the new start time. A game with no final score never awards points.

• Every sheet is ranked on its own. Points are never added together across sheets. If you fill out the Kraken and the Maple Leafs, you have two separate entries.
• Team leaderboards rank everyone’s sheets for one team, head to head.
• The All-Teams leaderboard ranks every sheet for every team in one list, so the same player can appear more than once, once per team. Use Switch board to move between boards.
• Season, Month or Week: every board can show the whole season, one month, or one week (Monday to Sunday). Monthly and weekly boards count only games played in that stretch, so everyone starts level each week and month. Use ‹ › to look back at earlier ones.
• Ties: sheets with the same points share a rank.
• Viewing other players: on a leaderboard, click a player’s name to open their profile (picture, points, best rank, and sheets; never their email or settings), or click the team to open that player’s pick sheet. Picks are revealed at puck drop, so for games that haven’t started you can only see whether a pick was made, not what it is. From any player’s sheet, Compare side by side lines up your picks against theirs for the same team. Your email address is never shown.