2025-26 regular season · January 29, 2026
No betting line for this game, so there is no before-puck-drop or fresh-game number.
Jets at Lightning, Jan 29, 2026: who deserved to win?
The Lightning beat the Jets 4–1, and the replays lean their way: with the same day's form, they win 6 of 10.
The biggest swing (P1, 5:02 left): Dominic James scored on a snap shot from 16 feet, worth 16 points of win probability to the Lightning.
Final
 Winnipeg Jets | 1 |
|---|---|
 Tampa Bay Lightning | 4 |
Replay with same day's form
Luck index +37 Lightning lucky · −37 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 4, Lightning win 6.
- 1 WPG 4 TBL 1
- 2 WPG 5 TBL 3
- 3 WPG 3 TBL 2
- 4 WPG 5 TBL 4
- 5 WPG 5 TBL 6
- 6 WPG 0 TBL 1
- 7 WPG 3 TBL 5
- 8 WPG 2 TBL 4
- 9 WPG 2 TBL 5
- 10 WPG 1 TBL 5
Three other ways to ask
Each answers a different question, so none of them replaces the replay above.
Before puck drop
No closing line for this game.
Same teams, fresh game
Needs the closing line, which this game has not got.
Only coin-flips re-rolled
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
Jets win 37% of them, Lightning 63%. The line is what actually happened: Lightning by 3.
Show as a table
| Final margin in the replays | Share of replays |
|---|---|
| Jets by 3+ | 9.0% |
| Jets by 2 | 7.0% |
| Jets by 1 | 21.1% |
| Lightning by 1 | 22.5% |
| Lightning by 2 | 13.6% |
| Lightning by 3+ | 26.8% |
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.
| Shooting | Unblocked attempts | Goals | Expected goals | Above expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jets | 37 | 1 | 1.95 | −0.95 |
 Lightning | 47 | 3 | 2.84 | +0.16 |
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.
| When | Call | Win probability for |
|---|---|---|
| P1 11:33 | Holding on the Lightning (J.J. Moser): 2 minutes on the power play | +4% WPG |
| P2 17:43 | Tripping on the Jets (Dylan DeMelo): 2 minutes on the power play | +3% TBL |
| P3 13:19 | Delaying game puck over glass on the Lightning (Jack Finley): 2 minutes on the power play | +2% WPG |
When it happened
Lightning’ chance of winning
Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, listed below.
| # | When | What happened | Win probability for | Next drive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P1 11:33 | Holding on the Lightning (J.J. Moser): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +4% WPG | – |
| 2 | P1 6:00 | Anthony Cirelli’s wrist shot from 12 feet was savedShooting · 13% chance | +2% WPG | – |
| 3 | P1 5:02 | Dominic James scored on a snap shot from 16 feetShooting · 9% chance | +16% TBL | – |
| 4 | P2 18:23 | Darren Raddysh scored on a slap shot from 58 feetShooting · 2% chance | +14% TBL | – |
| 5 | P2 17:43 | Tripping on the Jets (Dylan DeMelo): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +3% TBL | – |
| 6 | P2 7:35 | Kyle Connor scored on a tip from 27 feetShooting · 5% chance | +14% WPG | – |
| 7 | P2 4:43 | Yanni Gourde scored on a deflected shot from 19 feetShooting · 9% chance | +14% TBL | – |
| 8 | P3 13:19 | Delaying game puck over glass on the Lightning (Jack Finley): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +2% 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
Jets 10% · Lightning 90%
- Final margin
- Lightning by 3
- Luck in goals
- 1.0 for the Lightning
- Luck-adjusted margin
- Lightning by 2.0
- Replay with same day's form
- Jets 37% · Lightning 63% unchanged: why
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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