Hit the ice and spin the NHL Team Wheel! This free online randomizer is pre-loaded with all 32 National Hockey League franchises. It's the fastest way to pick a team for EA SPORTS NHL Franchise Mode, decide which game to stream, or assign teams for your office hockey pool. Learn how to customize your wheel.
The NHL Team Wheel is a simple, browser-based tool that randomly selects a hockey team from the 32 active NHL franchises (including recent additions like the Seattle Kraken and Utah Hockey Club). With fair, automated randomization, it eliminates debate and bias when you need to pick a team on the fly.
Get started in under 30 seconds — here's how.
All 32 teams from the Eastern and Western Conferences are loaded by default.
Doing a Canadian teams only challenge? Delete the US teams in the Text tab!
Click or tap the wheel to start the randomized spin.
The wheel lands on your team. You can remove them to ensure they aren't picked again in a draft.
Here's how the hockey community uses the randomizer.
Let the wheel pick your team. Try to build a dynasty with a struggling team, or take a contender over the top for the Stanley Cup.
Need a fair way to distribute teams or draft order to participants? Let the wheel decide.
Hockey sweaters are arguably the best jerseys in sports. Spin the wheel to decide which one to add to your collection next.
On a busy Saturday night, spin the wheel to decide which out-of-market game you'll tune into.
Yes, the wheel is updated to include the 32 current franchises, including Seattle and Utah.
No, every team has an exactly equal 1-in-32 chance of being selected on every spin.
Yes! You can clear the NHL teams and paste in IIHF teams (Canada, USA, Sweden, Finland, etc.) for World Junior or Olympic tournaments.
Playing against your friends in NHL gets repetitive if they always pick the Avalanche or the Lightning. Introduce the "Random Team Rule" using this wheel. Both players must play as the team the wheel selects for them. It forces you to learn different strategies, rely on depth players instead of superstars, and creates hilarious matchups that you'd never see otherwise.