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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · October 11, 2025

No betting line for this game, so there is no before-puck-drop or fresh-game number.

Kings at Jets, Oct 11, 2025: who deserved to win?

The Jets beat the Kings 3–2, but the replays call it close to a coin flip: with the way both teams played, the Jets win 5 of 10. Luck ran their way: goaltending alone was worth 31 points of win probability to the Jets.

The biggest swing (P3, 8:13 left): Mark Scheifele scored on a tip from 12 feet, worth 31 points of win probability to the Jets.

Final

Los Angeles Kings 2
Winnipeg Jets 3

October 11, 2025 · Canada Life Centre

Luck index +54 Jets lucky · −54 Kings

Each team’s own shots from this game, resampled into new games 4,000 times, each a goal at its chance, with the power plays the penalties gave and the pulled goalie at the end: with the way both teams actually played, how often does this performance win? How the replay works

Ten replays. Kings win 5, Jets win 5.

  1. 1 LAK 7 WPG 2
  2. 2 LAK 7 WPG 4
  3. 3 LAK 2 WPG 0
  4. 4 LAK 3 WPG 2
  5. 5 LAK 3 WPG 2
  6. 6 LAK 1 WPG 2
  7. 7 LAK 3 WPG 4
  8. 8 LAK 2 WPG 4
  9. 9 LAK 1 WPG 4
  10. 10 LAK 2 WPG 6

Three other ways to ask

Each answers a different question, so none of them replaces the replay above.

No closing line for this game.

Needs the closing line, which this game has not got.

Every shot redrawn at its chance, overtime and the shootout replayed as near coin flips; the shots themselves and every call fixed. The narrowest view of luck.

How 3,999.9 replays ended

Kings win 54% of them, Jets 46%. The line is what actually happened: Jets by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Kings by 3+24.3%
Kings by 210.3%
Kings by 119.3%
Jets by 119.8%
Jets by 29.6%
Jets by 3+16.8%

Where the luck was

What the luck was worth

Every lucky and unlucky play, weighted by the moment it happened: its swing in win probability, added up by kind. A post hit in a blowout counts for nothing; the same post with a minute left in a tie game can be most of a win.

Swings add up across a game, so in one that went back and forth they can pass 100%. On the scoreboard the same luck was worth +0.6 goals to the Jets: the final margin was Jets by 1, without the luck Jets by 0.4. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Kings4423.35−1.35
Jets4432.87+0.13

Regulation with both goalies in. Expected goals: our model of each shot’s chance from where and how it was taken (distance, angle, shot type, rebound, rush, strength), adjusted for the shooter’s and the goalie’s records. A team above expected finished better or met a weaker night in goal; 75% of the gap counts as luck (why that share).

Calls

Every penalty that put a team on the power play, and every goal taken off the board on review, with what it did to the helped team’s chance of winning at that moment. Calls don’t count toward luck by default: who draws penalties repeats from game to game like a skill (how calls are valued). Switch them on below.

WhenCallWin probability for
P1 16:35 Holding on the Kings (Quinton Byfield): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P1 9:43 Cross checking on the Kings (Brian Dumoulin): 2 minutes on the power play +3% WPG
P1 6:50 High sticking on the Kings (Alex Laferriere): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P2 10:30 Roughing on the Jets (Dylan DeMelo): 2 minutes on the power play +4% LAK
P2 3:08 Tripping on the Jets (Kyle Connor): 2 minutes on the power play +5% LAK
P3 19:29 Hooking on the Jets (Josh Morrissey): 2 minutes on the power play +6% LAK
P3 18:12 Holding on the Kings (Joel Armia): 2 minutes on the power play +6% WPG
P3 3:30 Roughing on the Jets (Neal Pionk): 2 minutes on the power play +6% LAK
P3 0:18 Tripping on the Jets (Tanner Pearson): 2 minutes on the power play +6% LAK

When it happened

Jets’ chance of winning

As low as 27% and as high as 100%. Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, listed below.

Our in-game win probability: the score and the time left, starting from the betting line (or the home edge alone when there is none), with goals at the league’s rates for the score. Overtime is drawn at a fixed width. Shaded above the middle while the Jets were ahead in it, below while the Kings were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 15:12 Alex Iafallo scored on a wrist shot from 16 feetShooting · 16% chance +13% WPG –
2 P2 19:10 Mikey Anderson scored on a slap shot from 58 feetShooting · 2% chance +18% LAK –
3 P2 10:48 Adrian Kempe scored on a tip from 7 feetShooting · 8% chance +20% LAK –
4 P2 1:03 Mark Scheifele scored on a backhand shot from 20 feetShooting · 10% chance +23% WPG –
5 P3 18:12 Holding on the Kings (Joel Armia): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +6% WPG –
6 P3 8:13 Mark Scheifele scored on a tip from 12 feetShooting · 9% chance +31% WPG –
7 P3 2:17 Kevin Fiala’s slap shot from 21 feet was savedShooting · 19% chance +8% WPG –
8 P3 1:46 Andrei Kuzmenko missed the net with a wrist shot from 7 feetShooting · 19% chance +8% WPG –

Adjust the assumptions

Think finishing is more skill than we do, or that the calls were luck? Change it and the coin-flip replay reruns in your browser.

Only coin-flips re-rolled

Kings 40% · Jets 60%

Final margin
Jets by 1
Luck in goals
0.6 for the Jets
Luck-adjusted margin
Jets by 0.4
Replay with same day's form
Kings 54% · Jets 46% unchanged: why
How much of each is luck?

0% treats it as skill, 100% as pure luck. The tick is our fit.

What counts
Flip a play

Force the other outcome, in this game and in every replay: a goal becomes a save, a post goes in, a penalty goes the other way.

About these numbers

Play-by-play from the NHL via fastRhockey; expected goals, in-game win probability and the replays are our own models, fitted on every game since 2018-19 (methodology and validation). Blocked shots aren’t replayed (their location is the block’s, not the shot’s). No betting line for this game, so there is no before-puck-drop or fresh-game number.

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