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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · January 31, 2026 · OT

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

Kings at Flyers, Jan 31, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Kings beat the Flyers 3–2, but the replays call it close to a coin flip: with the way both teams played, the Kings win 5 of 10. Luck ran their way: overtime alone was worth 51 points of win probability to the Kings.

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

Final (OT)

Los Angeles Kings 3
Philadelphia Flyers 2

January 31, 2026 · Xfinity Mobile Arena

Luck index +50 Kings lucky · −50 Flyers

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 5, Flyers win 5.

  1. 1 LAK 4 PHI 1
  2. 2 LAK 5 PHI 2
  3. 3 LAK 3 PHI 1
  4. 4 LAK 4 PHI 3
  5. 5 LAK 3 PHI 2
  6. 6 LAK 0 PHI 1
  7. 7 LAK 2 PHI 3
  8. 8 LAK 1 PHI 3
  9. 9 LAK 0 PHI 3
  10. 10 LAK 1 PHI 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 50% of them, Flyers 50%. The line is what actually happened: Kings by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Kings by 3+16.6%
Kings by 29.7%
Kings by 123.3%
Flyers by 124.0%
Flyers by 210.6%
Flyers by 3+15.8%

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.

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 +1.0 goals to the Kings: the final margin was Kings by 1, without the luck even. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Kings3622.20−0.20
Flyers3922.15−0.15

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 7:27 Too many men on the ice on the Flyers (PHI): 2 minutes on the power play +3% LAK
P1 5:01 Holding on the Flyers (Sean Couturier): 2 minutes on the power play +3% LAK
P1 0:48 Cross checking on the Kings (Drew Doughty): 2 minutes on the power play +3% PHI
P2 13:19 Delaying game puck over glass on the Kings (Cody Ceci): 2 minutes on the power play +4% PHI

When it happened

Flyers’ chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 54%. 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 Kings were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 16:50 Adrian Kempe scored on a snap shot from 13 feetShooting · 21% chance +13% LAK –
2 P1 12:52 Adrian Kempe scored on a snap shot from 38 feetShooting · 8% chance +14% LAK –
3 P2 19:21 Trevor Zegras scored on a wrist shot from 17 feetShooting · 12% chance +14% PHI –
4 P2 13:19 Delaying game puck over glass on the Kings (Cody Ceci): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% PHI –
5 P3 19:35 Travis Konecny scored on a tip from 24 feetShooting · 6% chance +24% PHI –
6 P3 6:09 Cam York’s backhand shot from 10 feet was savedShooting · 10% chance +4% LAK –
7 P3 4:06 Christian Dvorak missed the net with a tip from 8 feetShooting · 9% chance +4% LAK –
8 OT The game turned hereThe Kings won in overtimeOvertime · overtime is close to a coin flip +51% LAK –

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 51% · Flyers 49%

Final margin
Kings by 1
Luck in goals
1.0 for the Kings
Luck-adjusted margin
even
Replay with same day's form
Kings 50% · Flyers 50% 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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