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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · October 14, 2025 · OT

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

Kraken at Canadiens, Oct 14, 2025: who deserved to win?

The Canadiens beat the Kraken 5–4, but the replays call it close to a coin flip: with the way both teams played, the Canadiens win 5 of 10. Luck ran their way: shooting alone was worth 51 points of win probability to the Canadiens.

The biggest swing (OT): the Canadiens won in overtime, worth 49 points of win probability to the Canadiens.

Final (OT)

Seattle Kraken 4
Montreal Canadiens 5

October 14, 2025 · Centre Bell

Luck index +50 Canadiens lucky · −50 Kraken

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. Kraken win 5, Canadiens win 5.

  1. 1 SEA 3 MTL 0
  2. 2 SEA 3 MTL 1
  3. 3 SEA 4 MTL 2
  4. 4 SEA 3 MTL 2
  5. 5 SEA 2 MTL 1
  6. 6 SEA 3 MTL 4
  7. 7 SEA 1 MTL 2
  8. 8 SEA 0 MTL 2
  9. 9 SEA 2 MTL 5
  10. 10 SEA 0 MTL 4

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 4,000.1 replays ended

Kraken win 50% of them, Canadiens 50%. The line is what actually happened: Canadiens by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Kraken by 3+15.1%
Kraken by 211.8%
Kraken by 122.9%
Canadiens by 126.1%
Canadiens by 29.9%
Canadiens by 3+14.2%

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 +1.1 goals to the Canadiens: the final margin was Canadiens by 1, without the luck Kraken by 0.1. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Kraken3342.07+1.93
Canadiens3341.84+2.16

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 13:28 Tripping on the Kraken (Joshua Mahura): 2 minutes on the power play +3% MTL
P1 9:59 Slashing on the Canadiens (Cole Caufield): 2 minutes on the power play +3% SEA
P1 8:54 Interference on the Kraken (Vince Dunn): 2 minutes on the power play +4% MTL
P1 8:20 Interference on the Canadiens (Ivan Demidov): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P2 17:51 Tripping on the Canadiens (Mike Matheson): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P2 8:22 Hooking on the Canadiens (Juraj Slafkovský): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P3 4:46 Holding on the Kraken (Mason Marchment): 2 minutes on the power play +6% MTL

When it happened

Canadiens’ chance of winning

As low as 12% 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 Canadiens were ahead in it, below while the Kraken were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P2 16:27 Jaden Schwartz scored on a snap shot from 7 feetShooting · 23% chance +15% SEA –
2 P2 12:48 Cole Caufield scored on a snap shot from 29 feetShooting · 9% chance +18% MTL –
3 P2 2:08 Jani Nyman scored on a deflected shot from 12 feetShooting · 8% chance +22% SEA –
4 P3 18:48 Kirby Dach scored on a deflected shot from 6 feetShooting · 13% chance +22% MTL –
5 P3 15:12 Jamie Oleksiak scored on a snap shot from 47 feetShooting · 3% chance +27% SEA –
6 P3 12:04 Jared McCann scored on a wrist shot from 18 feetShooting · 12% chance +27% SEA –
7 P3 2:41 Ivan Demidov scored on a backhand shot from 11 feetShooting · 9% chance +38% MTL –
8 OT The Canadiens won in overtimeOvertime · overtime is close to a coin flip +49% MTL –

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

Kraken 57% · Canadiens 43%

Final margin
Canadiens by 1
Luck in goals
1.1 for the Canadiens
Luck-adjusted margin
Kraken by 0.1
Replay with same day's form
Kraken 50% · Canadiens 50% 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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