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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · November 29, 2025

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

Oilers at Kraken, Nov 29, 2025: who deserved to win?

The Oilers beat the Kraken 4–0, but the replays call it close to a coin flip: with the way both teams played, the Oilers win 4 of 10. Luck ran their way: shooting alone was worth 25 points of win probability to the Oilers.

The biggest swing (P1, 8:31 left): Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored on a wrist shot from 14 feet, worth 16 points of win probability to the Oilers.

Final

Edmonton Oilers 4
Seattle Kraken 0

November 29, 2025 · Climate Pledge Arena

Luck index +57 Oilers lucky · −57 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. Oilers win 4, Kraken win 6.

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

Oilers win 43% of them, Kraken 57%. The line is what actually happened: Oilers by 4.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Oilers by 3+13.9%
Oilers by 28.7%
Oilers by 120.7%
Kraken by 123.6%
Kraken by 211.6%
Kraken by 3+21.5%

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 +3.3 goals to the Oilers: the final margin was Oilers by 4, without the luck Oilers by 0.7. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Oilers4042.20+1.80
Kraken4202.60−2.60

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 12:01 Holding on the Oilers (Brett Kulak): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P1 9:47 Interference goalkeeper on the Kraken (Mason Marchment): 2 minutes on the power play +4% EDM
P1 3:06 High sticking on the Oilers (Brett Kulak): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P1 2:51 Too many men on the ice on the Oilers (EDM): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P1 0:21 Tripping on the Oilers (Connor McDavid): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P2 12:47 Elbowing on the Oilers (Leon Draisaitl): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P2 1:35 Cross checking on the Kraken (Adam Larsson): 2 minutes on the power play +3% EDM
P3 7:36 Roughing on the Oilers (Connor Clattenburg): 2 minutes on the power play 0% SEA

When it happened

Kraken’ 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 Kraken were ahead in it, below while the Oilers were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 9:47 Interference goalkeeper on the Kraken (Mason Marchment): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% EDM –
2 P1 8:31 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored on a wrist shot from 14 feetShooting · 11% chance +16% EDM –
3 P1 2:51 Too many men on the ice on the Oilers (EDM): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% SEA –
4 P1 0:21 Tripping on the Oilers (Connor McDavid): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% SEA –
5 P2 14:54 Mattias Janmark hit the right post with a wrist shot from 4 feetShooting · 29% chance +5% SEA –
6 P2 12:47 Elbowing on the Oilers (Leon Draisaitl): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% SEA –
7 P2 7:30 Leon Draisaitl scored on a wrist shot from 33 feetShooting · 9% chance +15% EDM –
8 P2 1:09 Zach Hyman scored on a deflected shot from 9 feetShooting · 12% chance +7% 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 62% · Kraken 38%

Final margin
Oilers by 4
Luck in goals
3.3 for the Oilers
Luck-adjusted margin
Oilers by 0.7
Replay with same day's form
Oilers 43% · Kraken 57% 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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