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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · November 15, 2025 · OT

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

Oilers at Hurricanes, Nov 15, 2025: who deserved to win?

The Oilers beat the Hurricanes 4–3, but the replays call it close to a coin flip: with the way both teams played, the Oilers win 5 of 10. Luck ran their way: overtime alone was worth 51 points of win probability to the Oilers.

The game turned on a luck play (OT): the Oilers won in overtime, worth 51 points of win probability to the Oilers.

Final (OT)

Edmonton Oilers 4
Carolina Hurricanes 3

November 15, 2025 · Lenovo Center

Luck index +51 Oilers lucky · −51 Hurricanes

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. Oilers win 5, Hurricanes win 5.

  1. 1 EDM 4 CAR 0
  2. 2 EDM 3 CAR 0
  3. 3 EDM 5 CAR 3
  4. 4 EDM 5 CAR 4
  5. 5 EDM 3 CAR 2
  6. 6 EDM 2 CAR 3
  7. 7 EDM 2 CAR 3
  8. 8 EDM 2 CAR 4
  9. 9 EDM 3 CAR 6
  10. 10 EDM 1 CAR 5

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

Oilers win 49% of them, Hurricanes 51%. The line is what actually happened: Oilers by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Oilers by 3+19.4%
Oilers by 29.9%
Oilers by 119.8%
Hurricanes by 120.0%
Hurricanes by 29.7%
Hurricanes by 3+21.1%

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 Oilers: the final margin was Oilers by 1, without the luck Hurricanes by 0.1. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Oilers3733.03−0.03
Hurricanes5433.10−0.10

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 15:13 Cross checking on the Hurricanes (Andrei Svechnikov): 2 minutes on the power play +4% EDM
P2 16:42 Cross checking on the Oilers (Darnell Nurse): 2 minutes on the power play +5% CAR
P2 13:02 Slashing on the Oilers (Leon Draisaitl): 2 minutes on the power play +5% CAR

When it happened

Hurricanes’ 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 Hurricanes were ahead in it, below while the Oilers were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 16:13 Jack Roslovic scored on a snap shot from 14 feetShooting · 13% chance +14% EDM –
2 P1 13:30 Connor McDavid scored on a snap shot from 21 feetShooting · 10% chance +13% EDM –
3 P1 4:21 Eric Robinson scored on a snap shot from 31 feetShooting · 5% chance +14% CAR –
4 P2 18:19 Nikolaj Ehlers scored on a snap shot from 22 feetShooting · 8% chance +18% CAR –
5 P3 16:16 Leon Draisaitl’s snap shot from 5 feet was savedShooting · 35% chance +10% CAR –
6 P3 14:14 Connor McDavid scored on a snap shot from 10 feetShooting · 18% chance +24% EDM –
7 P3 13:15 Jordan Staal scored on a snap shot from 9 feetShooting · 18% chance +24% CAR –
8 OT The game turned hereThe Oilers won in overtimeOvertime · overtime is close to a coin flip +51% EDM –

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

Oilers 50% · Hurricanes 50%

Final margin
Oilers by 1
Luck in goals
1.1 for the Oilers
Luck-adjusted margin
Hurricanes by 0.1
Replay with same day's form
Oilers 49% · Hurricanes 51% 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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