# NHL Slate Pick'em Pool — Rules, Scoring & Hosting > How NHL Slate Pick'em pools work: the commissioner picks each week's slate, members pick N games straight up and either rank them 1–N for points or score one point per correct pick. Source: https://piksheet.com/pools/slate_pickem?via=md Last updated: 2026-11-10 **NHL Slate Pick'em:** Pick your games from the week's NHL slate. NHL pick'em on a slate the commissioner chooses. Pick N games straight up each week — ranked for confidence points, or one point a pick. Sport: [NHL](https://piksheet.com/nhl?via=md) ## How it works 1. The commissioner chooses which NHL games make each week's slate. 2. Each week you pick N of those games straight up — no puck line. N is the pool's picks-per-week setting. 3. Ranked pools: give your picks the values 1 through N, each used once; a correct pick scores its value. Flat pools: one point per correct pick. 4. A win is a win — overtime and shootout results count the same as regulation. 5. Picks lock at the week's first slate game, each day's first slate game, or each game's start, per the pool's lock setting. Most points across the season wins. ## Week 3 example (ranked, 5 picks) 1. Rank 5: correct → 5 points 2. Rank 4: wrong → 0 points 3. Ranks 3, 2, 1: correct (one in a shootout) → 6 points 4. Week total: 11 points. In a flat pool the same card scores 4. ## How to win - In a ranked pool, put your top value on the game you are surest about, not the earliest one. - Back-to-backs and long road trips are where NHL favorites lose; check the schedule before you rank. - You only pick N games, so when the slate has more than N, skip the coin flips and use that choice. - Overtime and shootouts still produce a winner, so a close matchup is a risk, not a push. Keep your big values off games likely to go to a shootout. ## What the commissioner controls Picks per week, scoring, the tiebreaker, and lock mode are editable until the pool opens, and the week range is set at creation. Each week's slate stays editable until that week's first slate game starts. - Picks per week (N) - Ranked (1–N) or flat scoring - The slate: which games count each week, editable until that week's first slate game - Start / end week, lock mode (week, day, or individual game) - Weekly tiebreaker: total shots on goal in the week's last slate game (optional) - Entry fee (optional — you collect, we don't touch it) ## Frequently asked questions ### Do I have to pick every game? No — only N games from the slate, where N is set by the commissioner. The commissioner can't set up a week with fewer than N games; if a game is later postponed out of a week, that week can end up short. ### Are there spreads or a puck line? No. Every pick is straight up: pick the team that wins. ### Do overtime and shootout wins count? Yes. The team that wins the game wins your pick, whether it ends in regulation, overtime, or a shootout. ### When can the commissioner change the slate? A week's slate can be edited until that week's first slate game starts. After that the week's games are fixed. ### How are weekly ties broken? If the commissioner turns on the weekly tiebreaker, each entry also predicts the total shots on goal in the week's last slate game; when entries tie on both points and record, the closest prediction wins. Without it, those ties stand. ## Start a pool on PikSheet PikSheet runs pools for every major sport — football (NFL and college), basketball (NBA), baseball (MLB), hockey (NHL) and golf (PGA TOUR and the majors) — with auto-scoring on the web, iOS and Android. 1. Go to [piksheet.com/create](https://piksheet.com/create?via=md) and sign in or create an account. 2. Pick a sport and a pool format, then set your rules. 3. Share your pool's invite link. Members join on the web or in the iOS and Android apps. Pricing: a competitive pool costs $1.00 per billable entry (a pick sheet that reaches its first locked week) for its first 25 entries each season. Full pricing: [piksheet.com/pricing](https://piksheet.com/pricing?via=md). ## Related - [NHL Slate Pick'em walkthrough](https://piksheet.com/help/pool-types/slate_pickem?via=md) - [Compare every pool format](https://piksheet.com/pools/compare?via=md) - [Pricing](https://piksheet.com/pricing?via=md) --- Most pages on https://piksheet.com have a markdown version: add .md to the URL (the home page is https://piksheet.com/index.md) or request the page with `Accept: text/markdown`. https://piksheet.com/llms.txt lists every page and links each markdown version.