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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · April 7, 2026 · OT

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

Bruins at Hurricanes, Apr 7, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Hurricanes beat the Bruins 6–5, and the replays lean their way: with the same day's form, they win 7 of 10. The Bruins had the bounces: goaltending alone was worth 46 points of win probability to the Bruins.

The biggest swing (OT): the Hurricanes won in overtime, worth 49 points of win probability to the Hurricanes.

Final (OT)

Boston Bruins 5
Carolina Hurricanes 6

April 7, 2026 · Lenovo Center

Luck index +25 Hurricanes lucky · −25 Bruins

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. Bruins win 3, Hurricanes win 7.

  1. 1 BOS 5 CAR 2
  2. 2 BOS 5 CAR 4
  3. 3 BOS 4 CAR 3
  4. 4 BOS 2 CAR 3
  5. 5 BOS 1 CAR 3
  6. 6 BOS 5 CAR 8
  7. 7 BOS 1 CAR 4
  8. 8 BOS 4 CAR 8
  9. 9 BOS 1 CAR 6
  10. 10 BOS 2 CAR 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 4,000.2 replays ended

Bruins win 25% of them, Hurricanes 75%. The line is what actually happened: Hurricanes by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Bruins by 3+6.0%
Bruins by 24.5%
Bruins by 114.7%
Hurricanes by 116.1%
Hurricanes by 210.5%
Hurricanes by 3+48.2%

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 +0.7 goals to the Bruins: the final margin was Hurricanes by 1, without the luck Hurricanes by 1.7. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Bruins3352.15+2.85
Hurricanes5854.40+0.60

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 2:35 Delaying game unsuccessful challenge on the Hurricanes (CAR): 2 minutes on the power play +4% BOS
P1 0:00 Interference goalkeeper on the Bruins (Mark Kastelic): 2 minutes on the power play +4% CAR
P2 15:37 Slashing on the Bruins (Nikita Zadorov): 2 minutes on the power play +4% CAR
P2 0:38 Cross checking on the Bruins (Charlie McAvoy): 2 minutes on the power play +5% CAR
P3 15:03 High sticking on the Bruins (David Pastrnak): 2 minutes on the power play +5% CAR
P3 3:16 Interference on the Hurricanes (Jordan Martinook): 2 minutes on the power play +9% BOS

When it happened

Hurricanes’ chance of winning

As low as 33% 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 Hurricanes were ahead in it, below while the Bruins were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 15:20 Hampus Lindholm scored on a snap shot from 38 feetShooting · 5% chance +16% BOS –
2 P1 9:56 Andrei Svechnikov scored on a wrist shot from 10 feetShooting · 3% chance +17% CAR –
3 P1 8:22 K'Andre Miller scored on a snap shot from 56 feetShooting · 2% chance +17% CAR –
4 P1 2:35 Morgan Geekie scored on a wrist shot from 6 feetShooting · 24% chanceDelaying game unsuccessful challenge on the Hurricanes (CAR): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +18% BOS –
5 P2 14:43 Logan Stankoven scored on a slap shot from 29 feetShooting · 14% chance +17% CAR –
6 P2 12:40 William Carrier scored on a snap shot from 25 feetShooting · 11% chance +18% CAR –
7 P3 7:27 Pavel Zacha scored on a snap shot from 11 feetShooting · 16% chance +29% BOS –
8 OT The Hurricanes won in overtimeOvertime · overtime is close to a coin flip +49% CAR –

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

Bruins 17% · Hurricanes 83%

Final margin
Hurricanes by 1
Luck in goals
0.7 for the Bruins
Luck-adjusted margin
Hurricanes by 1.7
Replay with same day's form
Bruins 25% · Hurricanes 75% 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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