Don't buy pucks with coins.
Use your coins to start building out a collection. Play with that team, and start building up towards completing the entire collection. Get your free packs from completing the collection and use those players on your team. Sell everyone that you can and complete the next collection.
See here for a listing of collections prices -
https://www.reddit.com/r/NHLHUT/comm...ableformatted/
You should be able to build out a decent team using this strategy.
There's two free packs on the store right now, up for zero coins, for the home opener. Get those before it's too late!
If you buy packs with money, don't buy any of the 12 rare, 30 gold with 20 rare packs - wait until the player jumbo premiums, where you get all gold rare players. These have the highest chance of pulling a good player, since you're not wasting rares on consumables.