NHL SURVIVOR POOL

The winner gets a NHL jersey from a team of his choosing.

Each contestant must pick a team every day. If the team loses, the contestant is eliminated. The goal is to be the last person standing.

The contest starts Thursday March 23^rd, 2017. There are 5 selected dates where contestants won’t need to submit a pick because there are too few games. Those dates are March 24 and 29, as well as April 3, 5 and 7.

A contestant is not allowed to pick the same team twice throughout the contest, unless all teams playing on a certain night have already been previously selected by this person. In this case, he can pick any team.

All picks must be submitted by 7pm Eastern Time, even if the game on which you want to select a team starts at a later time. If the contestant wants to pick a team that is playing EARLIER than 7pm, he must do so before the game starts.

There are two ways to submit picks: in the Facebook group (I will create a post specifically for this every day) or via email (professormj@hotmail.com). Keep in mind that there could be a delay between the moment you send the email to the moment I receive it, so don’t wait too close from the deadline. Facebook is the preferred method for this reason.

It is possible to change your pick by posting again in the Facebook group or by sending another email, as long as the deadline is met.

As soon as we are left with 5 contestants or less still alive, picks must be submitted via email (to avoid some people making picks based on which teams were picked by others).

The last day of the NHL regular season is April 9. Here is what we are going to do if we haven’t found a winner after the April 8 games:

• On April 9, each contestant still alive must pick a team according to the rules above. If we end up with only one winner, great. Otherwise, see the next step.
• To prevent having more than one winner, I also ask these contestants to predict the score of each of the 10 games from that day. The first tie-breaker will be the number of predicted winners. The second tie-breaker will be each contestant’s total error (difference between predicted and actual number of goals scored by each of the 20 teams). If there is still a tie: coin toss!

I hope you will enjoy this free NHL contest. Show off your handicapping skills! Good luck everyone!

Professor MJ

 

Here are the results:

H	Ahn	Blackhawks		Capitals	Penguins
G	Beanblossom	Kings		No pick
M	Bhaloo	Blues		Oilers	Stars	Flames	Jackets		Lightning	Capitals
M	Buck	Panthers		Oilers	Wild
M	Burns	Panthers		Capitals	Wild
S	Carrier	Wild
A	Clark	Blackhawks		Capitals	Jets	Blues	Ducks		Lightning	Islanders
P	Clark	Bruins
S	Comtois	Blues		Capitals	Penguins
J	Cox	Oilers		Capitals	Jets	Hurricanes
J	Deknop	Oilers		Capitals	Stars	Flames	Jackets		Canadiens	Blues
A	DH	Canadiens
MA	Gaudet	Blues		Capitals	Stars	Flames	Ducks		Canadiens	Blackhawks
P	Georgina	Blackhawks		No pick
C	Hayes	Lightning		No pick
G	Hoyt	Oilers		No pick
M	Jackson	Panthers		Capitals	Jets	Flames	Canadiens		Lightning	Blues
B	Johnson	Leafs		Canucks	Penguins
G	Kosch	Wild
M	Lafreniere	Canadiens
B	Lavaglio	Oilers		Capitals	Penguins
M	Lemay	Oilers		Blackhawks
S	Lewandoski	Blackhawks		Blues
J	Linden	Blackhawks		Oilers	Ducks	Blues	Canadiens		Bruins	Capitals
R	Mac	Blues		Wild
J	Markwardt	Panthers		No pick
M	Mathieu	Oilers		Capitals	Penguins
A	Milkmann	Rangers
O	Moubayed	Panthers		Capitals	Penguins
J	Nathan	Oilers		Too late
A	Noble	Oilers		Capitals	Ducks	Flames	Jackets		Canadiens	Blues
S	Olson	Blues		Capitals	Stars	Flames	Canadiens		Lightning	Kings
C	O'Shaughnessy	Canadiens
H	Parker	Canadiens
MO	Perrault	Leafs		Oilers	Jets	Flames	Jackets		Canadiens	Blues
LP	Perrault	Oilers		Bruins	Wild
C	Prentiss	Blues		Oilers	Penguins
B	Reyes	Leafs		Oilers	Jets	Flames	Ducks		Bruins	Capitals
M	Robert	Leafs		Hurricanes	Jets	Flames	Jackets		Bruins	Blues
K	Robertson	Leafs		Capitals	Penguins
B	Robin	Canadiens
M	Rooke	Oilers		Hurricanes	Stars	Blues	Ducks		Canadiens	Capitals
L	Ryan	Wild
CJ	Sanandreas	Blackhawks		No pick
D	Sandler	Capitals		No pick
IT	Sawchuck	Oilers		Capitals	Wild
R	Schmidt	Blackhawks		Capitals	Penguins
E	Strand	Blackhawks		Oilers	Penguins
S	Stute	Oilers		Capitals	Jets	Flames	Ducks		Lightning	Blues
V	Sutton	Oilers		Capitals	Wild
P	Taillefer	Blackhawks		No pick
S	Tercero	Panthers		Wild
K	Thana	Panthers		Capitals	Penguins
T	Thru	Wild
M	Tinus	Leafs		Capitals	Penguins
A	Tou	Blues		Oilers	Penguins
C	Tremblay	Flames
D	Turgeon	Oilers		Blackhawks
M	Vaillancourt	Canadiens
R	Vogel	Leafs		Oilers	Penguins
R	Wyman	Blackhawks		Oilers	Penguins
W	Yerkovich	Canadiens
L	Yerkovich	Blues		No pick
A	Yerkovich	Oilers		Capitals	Wild
Luke	Yerkovich	Oilers		Capitals	Penguins