Complete any Sportdle once per day to keep the global streak alive. Each game mode also tracks its own streak separately.
NHL Stat Line — Guess the hockey player from their season stats
NHL Stat Line shows a NHL player's season or career numbers without their name attached. Read the franchise, position, and production — then guess who you're looking at.
Stat Line cards are position-aware: skaters get goals, assists, TOI; goalies get save stats. That makes the puzzle fairer across roles — a defender's card looks completely different from a scorer's, so you're never asked to guess who led a franchise in points without the right numbers in front of you.
Wrong guesses gradually unlock contextual hints like position, franchise, and birth year. The early guesses are where stat-literate fans shine; the later hints open the puzzle up for anyone who recognises a player by franchise alone.
Solve it to keep your Sportdle streak active, or use unlimited rounds to drill through more NHL stat lines after the daily.
Frequently asked questions
- How does NHL Stat Line work?
- You're shown a stat card for an unknown NHL player. Identify them from the numbers alone, or use your wrong guesses to unlock position, franchise, and other hints.
- Are the stats current season or career?
- Stat Line typically shows a single standout season for the answer player, usually recent but sometimes from a career-best year. Look at the scale of the numbers to judge.
- Why does the stat card look different for different players?
- Cards are position-aware. Different roles in NHL get different stat categories so the puzzle is fair for defenders, scorers, goalies, and everyone in between.
- Do Stat Line answers repeat across leagues?
- No — each league picks from its own pool. The NHL Stat Line answer is always a NHL player.
- Is Sportdle the NHL Wordle?
- Yes — Sportdle is widely played as the NHL Wordle. It's a free daily hockey player guessing game in the same format as Wordle, but with NHL players instead of words. NHL Stat Line is one of several Sportdle modes, all of which refresh every day.