Re: Puck Equivalent to Dollar Amount??? On Xbox 360

It's probably variable depending on what you buy, but you can get a sense of how many pucks are roughly equivalent to a dollar by seeing how many MS Points/dollars you can buy a bronze, silver or gold pack for and then do the conversion that way.

Reason that pucks are hard to convert to dollars is that there's never a direct conversion - you can't just exchange dollars for pucks, instead it has to be earned in-game through one of the following ways:

1. Playing games of NHL - HUT games give you most, other game modes (offline + online) give you about the same (approximately 10-25% of what you get in a HUT game)
2. Winning HUT tournaments, HUT season or playoffs. In addition to the per-game pucks you get, if you win the championship game you're given anywhere from 300-1000 pucks bonus (last year I think there was even more depending on the tournament restrictions)
3. Watching ads or performing actions for NHL14 sponsors
4. HUT return bonus - each day you return the game rewards you with an increasing bonus for every consecutive day you return - up to 1,250 pucks!
5. Selling cards on the HUT Auctionhouse - selling cards (contracts, consumables, players, coaches, etc.) for a price. When you sell an item, let's say for 1000 pucks, NHL14 keeps 5% of the price as an auction fee, so you'd end up getting 950 pucks for that transaction.
6. Completing a team collection - if you collect ALL of a particular team's cards, you get a puck bonus depending on the team. Kootenay Ice of the WHL give you a 9,000 puck bonus for completion (ALL players, jerseys and logos), whereas the Florida Panthers of the NHL offer you 37,500 pucks of bonus. The Pittsburgh Penguins offer you 60,000 pucks bonus, but they have Crosby, Malkin and Letang which those three alone will cost you close to 1,000,000 pucks alone 🙂

[edit] Reasons EA would subtract pucks from your account:

1. You placed a bid on a card in the auction house (just like eBay it can be won for a bid amount once its auction time runs out)
2. You clicked "buy it now" on a card in the auction house
3. You gave pucks and one or more cards to another player in exchange for one or more cards in an auction house trade
4. You bought a pack of cards from the HUT store