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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · December 10, 2025 · OT

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

Kings at Kraken, Dec 10, 2025: who deserved to win?

The Kraken beat the Kings 3–2, but the replays call it close to a coin flip: with the way both teams played, the Kraken win 5 of 10. Luck ran their way: overtime alone was worth 49 points of win probability to the Kraken.

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

Final (OT)

Los Angeles Kings 2
Seattle Kraken 3

December 10, 2025 · Climate Pledge Arena

Luck index +52 Kraken lucky · −52 Kings

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. Kings win 5, Kraken win 5.

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

Kings win 52% of them, Kraken 48%. The line is what actually happened: Kraken by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Kings by 3+21.9%
Kings by 29.6%
Kings by 120.3%
Kraken by 120.7%
Kraken by 29.1%
Kraken by 3+18.5%

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 +1.8 goals to the Kraken: the final margin was Kraken by 1, without the luck Kings by 0.8. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Kings4423.13−1.13
Kraken4923.18−1.18

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 14:47 Tripping on the Kings (Drew Doughty): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P1 5:09 Hooking on the Kraken (Adam Larsson): 2 minutes on the power play +4% LAK
P2 17:20 Tripping on the Kings (Cody Ceci): 2 minutes on the power play +5% SEA
P2 16:13 Slashing on the Kraken (Ryan Winterton): 2 minutes on the power play +4% LAK
P2 14:48 Hooking on the Kings (Anze Kopitar): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P2 13:28 Tripping on the Kings (Warren Foegele): 2 minutes on the power play +4% SEA
P3 19:06 Tripping on the Kraken (Mason Marchment): 2 minutes on the power play +6% LAK
P3 10:23 Tripping on the Kings (Kevin Fiala): 2 minutes on the power play +7% SEA
P3 5:48 High sticking double minor on the Kraken (Ryker Evans): 4 minutes on the power play +17% LAK
P3 0:39 Tripping on the Kings (Anton Forsberg): 2 minutes on the power play +6% SEA
OT 3:55 Slashing on the Kings (Adrian Kempe): 2 minutes on the power play +12% SEA

When it happened

Kraken’ chance of winning

As low as 4% 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 Kraken were ahead in it, below while the Kings were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P2 16:39 Jared McCann scored on a slap shot from 32 feetShooting · 15% chance +16% SEA –
2 P2 11:44 Alex Laferriere scored on a backhand shot from 13 feetShooting · 9% chance +19% LAK –
3 P3 17:22 Joel Armia’s snap shot from 4 feet was savedShooting · 44% chance +12% SEA –
4 P3 5:48 High sticking double minor on the Kraken (Ryker Evans): 4 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +17% LAK –
5 P3 5:20 Kevin Fiala scored on a backhand shot from 9 feetShooting · 16% chance +32% LAK –
6 P3 0:26 Matty Beniers scored on a tip from 9 feetShooting · 10% chance +43% SEA –
7 OT The Kraken won in overtimeOvertime · overtime is close to a coin flip +49% SEA –
8 OT 3:55 Slashing on the Kings (Adrian Kempe): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +12% SEA –

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

Kings 63% · Kraken 37%

Final margin
Kraken by 1
Luck in goals
1.8 for the Kraken
Luck-adjusted margin
Kings by 0.8
Replay with same day's form
Kings 52% · Kraken 48% 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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