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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · October 25, 2025

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

Mammoth at Wild, Oct 25, 2025: who deserved to win?

The Mammoth beat the Wild 6–2, and the replays lean their way: with the same day's form, they win 6 of 10.

The biggest swing (P1, 19:04 left): Logan Cooley scored on a bat shot from 8 feet, worth 15 points of win probability to the Mammoth.

Final

Utah Mammoth 6
Minnesota Wild 2

October 25, 2025 · Grand Casino Arena

Luck index +40 Mammoth lucky · −40 Wild

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. Mammoth win 6, Wild win 4.

  1. 1 UTA 6 MIN 1
  2. 2 UTA 6 MIN 2
  3. 3 UTA 5 MIN 2
  4. 4 UTA 3 MIN 1
  5. 5 UTA 3 MIN 2
  6. 6 UTA 3 MIN 2
  7. 7 UTA 3 MIN 4
  8. 8 UTA 2 MIN 3
  9. 9 UTA 1 MIN 3
  10. 10 UTA 1 MIN 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 4,000.2 replays ended

Mammoth win 60% of them, Wild 40%. The line is what actually happened: Mammoth by 4.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Mammoth by 3+31.1%
Mammoth by 210.4%
Mammoth by 119.0%
Wild by 118.7%
Wild by 28.2%
Wild by 3+12.6%

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 +2.2 goals to the Mammoth: the final margin was Mammoth by 4, without the luck Mammoth by 1.8. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Mammoth4953.66+1.34
Wild4823.14−1.14

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 17:14 Slashing on the Wild (Yakov Trenin): 2 minutes on the power play +4% UTA
P2 6:09 Hooking on the Mammoth (Ian Cole): 2 minutes on the power play +3% MIN
P3 18:34 Tripping on the Mammoth (Jack McBain): 2 minutes on the power play +5% MIN
P3 12:06 High sticking on the Mammoth (Barrett Hayton): 2 minutes on the power play +5% MIN
P3 2:12 Tripping on the Mammoth (Ian Cole): 2 minutes on the power play 0% MIN

When it happened

Wild’ chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 54%. 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 Wild were ahead in it, below while the Mammoth were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 19:04 Logan Cooley scored on a bat shot from 8 feetShooting · 5% chance +15% UTA –
2 P1 16:31 Logan Cooley scored on a wrist shot from 6 feetShooting · 29% chance +10% UTA –
3 P1 15:02 Nick Schmaltz scored on a tip from 28 feetShooting · 4% chance +10% UTA –
4 P1 4:21 Marcus Johansson scored on a snap shot from 25 feetShooting · 8% chance +10% MIN –
5 P2 4:17 Marcus Johansson scored on a snap shot from 24 feetShooting · 9% chance +15% MIN –
6 P3 18:29 Vladimir Tarasenko’s wrist shot from 8 feet was savedShooting · 21% chance +6% UTA –
7 P3 11:07 Vladimir Tarasenko’s wrist shot from 7 feet was savedShooting · 18% chance +6% UTA –
8 P3 6:23 JJ Peterka scored on a snap shot from 30 feetShooting · 12% chance +11% UTA –

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

Mammoth 80% · Wild 20%

Final margin
Mammoth by 4
Luck in goals
2.2 for the Mammoth
Luck-adjusted margin
Mammoth by 1.8
Replay with same day's form
Mammoth 60% · Wild 40% 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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