Penguins Jersey # Sudoku

[FLPensFan]

A little something different/fun to get away from the roster talk:

Stealing this from The Athletic, and keeping it Penguins specific. What is the best 6 man unit (3 forward, 2 defense, 1 goalie) you can put together in a sudoku format? If you've never played sudoku, it's a puzzle game, where the object is to create rows/boxes that use each number 1-9 only once.

So for this game/challenge, create a 6 man unit (3 forward, 2 defense, 1 goalie) where the numbers 0-9 are used in jerseys only once. Two examples who might help further understand....Mario Lemieux is ineligible, because his number was 66, so he'd be using the number 6 twice, which is not allowed. A second example...if you choose Crosby(87), you aren't going to be able to use Malkin (71, shares 7 with Crosby) or Jagr (68, shares 8 with Crosby).

I'll be a little lax with the rules and say that, you CAN use rare, limited use jersey numbers (ie, Ron Francis wore #9 for a short time here, before going back to his normal #10). If you want a little extra help, this link has a history of all Penguins jersey numbers. Still up to you to build a sudoku-format team: https://pittsburghhockey.net/penguins/uniforms-overview/all-time-uniform-numbers

Here's my 1st attempt:

Forwards: Malkin(71), Jagr(68), Guentzel(59)
Defense: Niskanen(2), Hatcher(4)
Goalie: Murray(30)

[E-Ramone]

Forwards: Godard (28), Tangradi (56), Fata (9)
Defense: Focht (4), Martin, Paul (7)
Goalie: Sabourin (30)

Spoiler:

[FLPensFan]

Forwards: Godard (28), Tangradi (56), Fata (9)
Defense: Focht (4), Martin, Paul (7)
Goalie: Sabourin (30)

Spoiler:

:slug:

Paul Martin is too good for that team. Maybe you should have went with Rod Buskas.

[thehockeyguru]

Forwards Ron Francis (9), Mark Recchi (8) Robitaille (20)
Defensemen Ulf Samuelsson (5) Paul Martin (7)
Goalie Wregget(31)

[E-Ramone]

Forwards: Godard (28), Tangradi (56), Fata (9)
Defense: Focht (4), Martin, Paul (7)
Goalie: Sabourin (30)

Spoiler:

:slug:

Paul Martin is too good for that team. Maybe you should have went with Rod Buskas.

Buskas was a bit before my time being a fan, but yeah, I see what you mean with him.

[FLPensFan]

Forwards Ron Francis (9), Mark Recchi (8) Robitaille (20)
Defensemen Ulf Samuelsson (5) Paul Martin (7)
Goalie Wregget(31)

You didn't use 4.

[thehockeyguru]

Forwards Ron Francis (9), Mark Recchi (8) Robitaille (20)
Defensemen Ulf Samuelsson (5) Paul Martin (7)
Goalie Wregget(31)

You didn't use 4.

You're right!

Forwards Ron Francis (9), Mark Recchi (8) Robitaille (20)
Defensemen Ulf Samuelsson (5) Simon Depres (47)
Goalie Wregget(31)

[Pruezy11881]

Forwards Ron Francis (9), Mark Recchi (8) Robitaille (20)
Defensemen Ulf Samuelsson (5) Paul Martin (7)
Goalie Wregget(31)

You didn't use 4.

Or 6.

[thehockeyguru]

Forwards Ron Francis (9), Mark Recchi (8) Robitaille (20)
Defensemen Ulf Samuelsson (5) Paul Martin (7)
Goalie Wregget(31)

You didn't use 4.

Or 6.

Ha I'm awful at this; last try

Forwards C - Francis (9), RW - Jagr (68) LW - Robitaille (20)
Defensemen RD - Bortuzzo(41) LD - Martin (7)
Goalie Barrasso (35)

[Hatrick]

forwards- Crosby(87) francis(10) tangradi(56)
defense- Mark eaton(3) Schultz(4)
Goalie-fleury(29)

[Cow_Master66]

Jagr (68), Kovy(27), Dupuis (9)
Ulffie (5), Bortuzzo (41)
Murray (30)

[Steve Dave]

Kunitz (14) Crosby (87) Tocchet (92)
U. Samuelsson (5) Marino (6)
Murray (30)

[FLPensFan]

Getting some good combos...