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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · January 6, 2026

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

Ducks at Flyers, Jan 6, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Flyers beat the Ducks 5–2, and the replays lean their way: with the same day's form, they win 8 of 10.

The biggest swing (P1, 9:38 left): Trevor Zegras scored on a snap shot from 26 feet, worth 17 points of win probability to the Flyers.

Final

Anaheim Ducks 2
Philadelphia Flyers 5

January 6, 2026 · Xfinity Mobile Arena

Luck index +23 Flyers about even · −23 Ducks

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. Ducks win 2, Flyers win 8.

  1. 1 ANA 5 PHI 3
  2. 2 ANA 3 PHI 2
  3. 3 ANA 2 PHI 3
  4. 4 ANA 6 PHI 8
  5. 5 ANA 4 PHI 7
  6. 6 ANA 2 PHI 5
  7. 7 ANA 0 PHI 3
  8. 8 ANA 3 PHI 7
  9. 9 ANA 1 PHI 7
  10. 10 ANA 1 PHI 8

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

Ducks win 23% of them, Flyers 77%. The line is what actually happened: Flyers by 3.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Ducks by 3+4.4%
Ducks by 24.8%
Ducks by 114.1%
Flyers by 113.2%
Flyers by 211.0%
Flyers by 3+52.6%

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 +0.5 goals to the Flyers: the final margin was Flyers by 3, without the luck Flyers by 2.5. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Ducks3422.14−0.14
Flyers5144.17−0.17

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 17:22 Instigator on the Flyers (Noah Cates): 2 minutes on the power play +4% ANA
P1 15:39 High sticking on the Flyers (Trevor Zegras): 2 minutes on the power play +4% ANA
P1 11:51 High sticking on the Ducks (Troy Terry): 2 minutes on the power play +4% PHI
P1 7:11 Too many men on the ice on the Ducks (ANA): 2 minutes on the power play +4% PHI
P1 1:52 Hooking on the Ducks (Beckett Sennecke): 2 minutes on the power play +4% PHI
P2 17:21 Interference on the Ducks (Ross Johnston): 5 minutes on the power play +7% PHI
P2 10:37 Interference on the Ducks (Leo Carlsson): 2 minutes on the power play +3% PHI
P3 19:51 Tripping on the Flyers (Sean Couturier): 2 minutes on the power play +1% ANA
P3 11:46 Elbowing on the Ducks (Jacob Trouba): 2 minutes on the power play +2% PHI
P3 10:31 High sticking on the Ducks (Chris Kreider): 2 minutes on the power play +2% PHI
P3 4:14 Elbowing on the Ducks (Radko Gudas): 2 minutes on the power play +1% PHI

When it happened

Flyers’ chance of winning

As low as 36% 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 Flyers were ahead in it, below while the Ducks were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 15:45 Cutter Gauthier scored on a slap shot from 43 feetShooting · 7% chance +15% ANA –
2 P1 9:38 Trevor Zegras scored on a snap shot from 26 feetShooting · 4% chance +17% PHI –
3 P1 5:37 Trevor Zegras scored on a wrist shot from 26 feetShooting · 5% chance +17% PHI –
4 P2 18:45 Cam York scored on a snap shot from 49 feetShooting · 3% chance +14% PHI –
5 P2 17:21 Interference on the Ducks (Ross Johnston): 5 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +7% PHI –
6 P2 9:08 Sean Couturier’s deflected shot from 5 feet was savedShooting · 18% chanceNoah Cates’s deflected shot from 2 feet was savedShooting · 57% chance +6% ANA –
7 P2 5:20 Travis Sanheim scored on a slap shot from 44 feetShooting · 4% chance +7% PHI –
8 P3 18:35 Alex Killorn scored on a snap shot from 28 feetShooting · 14% chance +5% ANA –

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

Ducks 6% · Flyers 94%

Final margin
Flyers by 3
Luck in goals
0.5 for the Flyers
Luck-adjusted margin
Flyers by 2.5
Replay with same day's form
Ducks 23% · Flyers 77% 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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