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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · December 6, 2025 · SO

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

Canadiens at Maple Leafs, Dec 6, 2025: who deserved to win?

The Canadiens beat the Maple Leafs 2–1, and the replays lean their way: with the same day's form, they win 7 of 10. The Maple Leafs had the bounces: goaltending alone was worth 24 points of win probability to the Maple Leafs.

The game turned on a luck play (SO): the Canadiens won the shootout, worth 50 points of win probability to the Canadiens.

Final (SO)

Montreal Canadiens 2
Toronto Maple Leafs 1

December 6, 2025 · Scotiabank Arena

Luck index +30 Canadiens lucky · −30 Maple Leafs

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. Canadiens win 7, Maple Leafs win 3.

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

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

Canadiens win 70% of them, Maple Leafs 30%. The line is what actually happened: Canadiens by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Canadiens by 3+35.4%
Canadiens by 213.4%
Canadiens by 121.6%
Maple Leafs by 119.9%
Maple Leafs by 24.7%
Maple Leafs by 3+5.0%

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 +0.1 goals to the Maple Leafs: the final margin was Canadiens by 1, without the luck Canadiens by 1.1. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Canadiens5012.96−1.96
Maple Leafs3411.44−0.44

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 13:38 Hooking on the Canadiens (Juraj Slafkovský): 2 minutes on the power play +4% TOR
P1 9:08 High sticking on the Maple Leafs (John Tavares): 2 minutes on the power play +4% MTL
P2 12:02 Tripping on the Maple Leafs (Troy Stecher): 2 minutes on the power play +5% MTL
P2 7:17 Tripping on the Canadiens (Noah Dobson): 2 minutes on the power play +5% TOR
P2 6:06 Interference on the Maple Leafs (John Tavares): 2 minutes on the power play +5% MTL
P3 11:24 Too many men on the ice on the Maple Leafs (TOR): 2 minutes on the power play +5% MTL
P3 5:27 Hooking on the Canadiens (Arber Xhekaj): 2 minutes on the power play +9% TOR

When it happened

Maple Leafs’ 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 Maple Leafs were ahead in it, below while the Canadiens were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P2 12:02 Tripping on the Maple Leafs (Troy Stecher): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +5% MTL –
2 P2 11:35 Cole Caufield scored on a wrist shot from 3 feetShooting · 31% chance +15% MTL –
3 P2 7:17 Tripping on the Canadiens (Noah Dobson): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +5% TOR –
4 P2 6:06 Interference on the Maple Leafs (John Tavares): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +5% MTL –
5 P3 11:24 Too many men on the ice on the Maple Leafs (TOR): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +5% MTL –
6 P3 9:32 Scott Laughton scored on a slap shot from 24 feetShooting · 18% chance +27% TOR –
7 P3 5:27 Hooking on the Canadiens (Arber Xhekaj): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +9% TOR –
8 SO The game turned hereThe Canadiens won the shootoutShootout · shootouts are close to coin flips +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

Canadiens 77% · Maple Leafs 23%

Final margin
Canadiens by 1
Luck in goals
0.2 for the Maple Leafs
Luck-adjusted margin
Canadiens by 1.2
Replay with same day's form
Canadiens 70% · Maple Leafs 30% 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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