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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · January 17, 2026 · OT

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

Maple Leafs at Jets, Jan 17, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Maple Leafs beat the Jets 4–3, but the replays lean toward the Jets: they take 7 of 10 with the same day's form. Luck ran their way: overtime alone was worth 51 points of win probability to the Maple Leafs.

The game turned on a luck play (OT): the Maple Leafs won in overtime, worth 51 points of win probability to the Maple Leafs.

Final (OT)

Toronto Maple Leafs 4
Winnipeg Jets 3

January 17, 2026 · Canada Life Centre

Luck index +67 Maple Leafs very lucky · −67 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. Maple Leafs win 3, Jets win 7.

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

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

Maple Leafs win 33% of them, Jets 67%. The line is what actually happened: Maple Leafs by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Maple Leafs by 3+10.2%
Maple Leafs by 26.1%
Maple Leafs by 116.3%
Jets by 117.9%
Jets by 210.3%
Jets by 3+39.2%

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 +2.2 goals to the Maple Leafs: the final margin was Maple Leafs by 1, without the luck Jets by 1.2. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Maple Leafs4132.96+0.04
Jets5134.48−1.48

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
P2 19:38 Tripping on the Maple Leafs (Brandon Carlo): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P2 13:07 High sticking on the Maple Leafs (Nicholas Robertson): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P2 10:05 Holding on the Jets (Jonathan Toews): 2 minutes on the power play +4% TOR
P2 5:08 Hooking on the Jets (Alex Iafallo): 2 minutes on the power play +4% TOR
P3 3:13 High sticking on the Maple Leafs (Matthew Knies): 2 minutes on the power play +9% WPG

When it happened

Jets’ chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 94%. 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 Maple Leafs were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P2 17:37 Alex Iafallo scored on a tip from 17 feetShooting · 7% chance +18% WPG –
2 P2 11:01 Kyle Connor scored on a snap shot from 9 feetShooting · 15% chance +12% WPG –
3 P2 10:38 Auston Matthews scored on a wrist shot from 24 feetShooting · 11% chance +13% TOR –
4 P3 17:32 Nino Niederreiter scored on a tip from 14 feetShooting · 7% chance +14% WPG –
5 P3 14:02 Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored on a slap shot from 27 feetShooting · 8% chance +13% TOR –
6 P3 4:27 Bobby McMann scored on a tip from 17 feetShooting · 8% chance +35% TOR –
7 P3 1:50 Gabriel Vilardi’s wrist shot from 5 feet was savedShooting · 28% chance +12% TOR –
8 OT The game turned hereThe Maple Leafs won in overtimeOvertime · overtime is close to a coin flip +51% 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

Maple Leafs 27% · Jets 73%

Final margin
Maple Leafs by 1
Luck in goals
2.2 for the Maple Leafs
Luck-adjusted margin
Jets by 1.2
Replay with same day's form
Maple Leafs 33% · Jets 67% 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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