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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · March 1, 2026 · SO

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

Flames at Ducks, Mar 1, 2026: who deserved to win?

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

The biggest swing (SO): the Ducks won the shootout, worth 51 points of win probability to the Ducks.

Final (SO)

Calgary Flames 2
Anaheim Ducks 3

March 1, 2026 · Honda Center

Luck index +51 Ducks lucky · −51 Flames

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. Flames win 5, Ducks win 5.

  1. 1 CGY 6 ANA 2
  2. 2 CGY 7 ANA 4
  3. 3 CGY 4 ANA 2
  4. 4 CGY 5 ANA 4
  5. 5 CGY 4 ANA 3
  6. 6 CGY 5 ANA 6
  7. 7 CGY 8 ANA 9
  8. 8 CGY 6 ANA 8
  9. 9 CGY 5 ANA 8
  10. 10 CGY 3 ANA 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 3,999.9 replays ended

Flames win 51% of them, Ducks 49%. The line is what actually happened: Ducks by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Flames by 3+23.9%
Flames by 28.1%
Flames by 118.6%
Ducks by 118.1%
Ducks by 28.1%
Ducks by 3+23.3%

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 +0.9 goals to the Ducks: the final margin was Ducks by 1, without the luck Ducks by 0.1. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Flames5923.90−1.90
Ducks5324.00−2.00

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 16:50 Interference goalkeeper on the Flames (Joel Farabee): 2 minutes on the power play +4% ANA
P1 13:34 Holding on the Ducks (Jackson LaCombe): 2 minutes on the power play +4% CGY
P1 4:52 Interference on the Ducks (Beckett Sennecke): 2 minutes on the power play +4% CGY
P2 5:35 Interference on the Ducks (Tim Washe): 2 minutes on the power play +5% CGY
P2 2:15 Interference on the Flames (Brayden Pachal): 2 minutes on the power play +5% ANA
P3 10:16 Holding the stick on the Flames (Mikael Backlund): 2 minutes on the power play +5% ANA
P3 7:28 Tripping on the Flames (Kevin Bahl): 2 minutes on the power play +8% ANA
OT 0:25 Interference on the Flames (Morgan Frost): 2 minutes on the power play +12% ANA

When it happened

Ducks’ chance of winning

As low as 19% 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 Ducks were ahead in it, below while the Flames were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 12:38 Matt Coronato’s snap shot from 4 feet was savedShooting · 47% chance +8% ANA –
2 P1 10:19 Joel Farabee scored on a tip from 13 feetShooting · 7% chance +16% CGY –
3 P2 8:46 Cutter Gauthier scored on a bat shot from 6 feetShooting · 6% chance +21% ANA –
4 P2 3:50 Yegor Sharangovich scored on a snap shot from 34 feetShooting · 11% chance +21% CGY –
5 P3 9:19 Cutter Gauthier scored on a slap shot from 31 feetShooting · 11% chance +30% ANA –
6 P3 7:28 Tripping on the Flames (Kevin Bahl): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +8% ANA –
7 SO The Ducks won the shootoutShootout · shootouts are close to coin flips +51% ANA –
8 OT 0:25 Interference on the Flames (Morgan Frost): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +12% 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

Flames 49% · Ducks 51%

Final margin
Ducks by 1
Luck in goals
0.9 for the Ducks
Luck-adjusted margin
Ducks by 0.1
Replay with same day's form
Flames 51% · Ducks 49% 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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