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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · January 9, 2026

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

Kings at Jets, Jan 9, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Jets beat the Kings 5–1, but the replays lean toward the Kings: they take 6 of 10 with the same day's form. Luck ran their way: shooting alone was worth 21 points of win probability to the Jets.

The biggest swing (P1, 18:29 left): Vladislav Namestnikov scored on a tip from 21 feet, worth 15 points of win probability to the Jets.

Final

Los Angeles Kings 1
Winnipeg Jets 5

January 9, 2026 · Canada Life Centre

Luck index +60 Jets very lucky · −60 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 6, Jets win 4.

  1. 1 LAK 7 WPG 2
  2. 2 LAK 4 WPG 1
  3. 3 LAK 4 WPG 1
  4. 4 LAK 3 WPG 1
  5. 5 LAK 6 WPG 5
  6. 6 LAK 4 WPG 3
  7. 7 LAK 4 WPG 5
  8. 8 LAK 2 WPG 3
  9. 9 LAK 2 WPG 4
  10. 10 LAK 1 WPG 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 replays ended

Kings win 60% of them, Jets 40%. The line is what actually happened: Jets by 4.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Kings by 3+28.9%
Kings by 211.0%
Kings by 120.2%
Jets by 120.2%
Jets by 27.5%
Jets by 3+12.1%

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 +4.0 goals to the Jets: the final margin was Jets by 4, without the luck even. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Kings5613.56−2.56
Jets3452.27+2.73

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 8:32 Tripping on the Jets (Kyle Connor): 2 minutes on the power play +4% LAK
P1 4:27 Holding on the Kings (Kevin Fiala): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P2 10:28 Delaying game unsuccessful challenge on the Jets (WPG): 2 minutes on the power play +3% LAK
P2 8:56 High sticking on the Kings (Adrian Kempe): 2 minutes on the power play +3% WPG
P3 6:56 Cross checking on the Jets (Logan Stanley): 2 minutes on the power play 0% LAK

When it happened

Jets’ chance of winning

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 Jets were ahead in it, below while the Kings were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 18:29 Vladislav Namestnikov scored on a tip from 21 feetShooting · 5% chance +15% WPG –
2 P1 8:32 Tripping on the Jets (Kyle Connor): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% LAK –
3 P1 4:27 Holding on the Kings (Kevin Fiala): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% WPG –
4 P1 1:55 Cole Koepke scored on a slap shot from 28 feetShooting · 9% chance +13% WPG –
5 P2 17:53 Jonathan Toews scored on a wrist shot from 3 feetShooting · 42% chance +5% WPG –
6 P2 10:28 Quinton Byfield scored on a deflected shot from 4 feetShooting · 14% chanceDelaying game unsuccessful challenge on the Jets (WPG): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +9% LAK –
7 P2 8:56 High sticking on the Kings (Adrian Kempe): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +3% WPG –
8 P2 7:25 Mark Scheifele scored on a wrist shot from 8 feetShooting · 5% chance +7% WPG –

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 54% · Jets 46%

Final margin
Jets by 4
Luck in goals
4.0 for the Jets
Luck-adjusted margin
even
Replay with same day's form
Kings 60% · Jets 40% 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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