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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · January 1, 2026

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

Jets at Maple Leafs, Jan 1, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Maple Leafs beat the Jets 6–5, but the replays call it close to a coin flip: with the way both teams played, the Maple Leafs win 5 of 10. Luck ran their way: shooting alone was worth 76 points of win probability to the Maple Leafs.

The game turned on a luck play (P3, 13:30 left): Matias Maccelli scored on a wrist shot from 30 feet, worth 28 points of win probability to the Maple Leafs. The biggest single swing (P3, 6:47 left): Troy Stecher scored on a snap shot from 40 feet.

Final

Winnipeg Jets 5
Toronto Maple Leafs 6

January 1, 2026 · Scotiabank Arena

Luck index +53 Maple Leafs lucky · −53 Jets

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. Jets win 5, Maple Leafs win 5.

  1. 1 WPG 7 TOR 3
  2. 2 WPG 5 TOR 2
  3. 3 WPG 3 TOR 1
  4. 4 WPG 4 TOR 3
  5. 5 WPG 5 TOR 4
  6. 6 WPG 1 TOR 2
  7. 7 WPG 1 TOR 2
  8. 8 WPG 1 TOR 3
  9. 9 WPG 2 TOR 5
  10. 10 WPG 0 TOR 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 4,000.1 replays ended

Jets win 53% of them, Maple Leafs 47%. The line is what actually happened: Maple Leafs by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Jets by 3+21.7%
Jets by 210.3%
Jets by 121.3%
Maple Leafs by 122.2%
Maple Leafs by 29.9%
Maple Leafs by 3+14.6%

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 +1.2 goals to the Maple Leafs: the final margin was Maple Leafs by 1, without the luck Jets by 0.2. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Jets5353.05+1.95
Maple Leafs4262.45+3.55

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 16:13 Tripping on the Maple Leafs (Oliver Ekman-Larsson): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P2 1:07 Interference on the Jets (Neal Pionk): 2 minutes on the power play +3% TOR
P3 12:47 High sticking on the Maple Leafs (Max Domi): 2 minutes on the power play +7% WPG

When it happened

Maple Leafs’ chance of winning

As low as 6% 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 Maple Leafs were ahead in it, below while the Jets were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 5:51 Gabriel Vilardi scored on a wrist shot from 30 feetShooting · 8% chance +17% WPG –
2 P1 2:22 Dylan DeMelo scored on a slap shot from 57 feetShooting · 2% chance +15% WPG –
3 P2 17:49 Alex Iafallo scored on a backhand shot from 22 feetShooting · 8% chance +15% WPG –
4 P2 0:03 Auston Matthews scored on a wrist shot from 34 feetShooting · 8% chance +15% TOR –
5 P3 13:30 The game turned hereMatias Maccelli scored on a wrist shot from 30 feetShooting · 5% chance +28% TOR –
6 P3 11:10 Mark Scheifele scored on a wrist shot from 29 feetShooting · 8% chance +29% WPG –
7 P3 6:47 Troy Stecher scored on a snap shot from 40 feetShooting · 5% chance +35% TOR –
8 P3 4:22 Auston Matthews scored on a backhand shot from 9 feetShooting · 12% chance +34% TOR –

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

Jets 61% · Maple Leafs 39%

Final margin
Maple Leafs by 1
Luck in goals
1.2 for the Maple Leafs
Luck-adjusted margin
Jets by 0.2
Replay with same day's form
Jets 53% · Maple Leafs 47% 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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