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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · April 15, 2026

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

Red Wings at Panthers, Apr 15, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Panthers beat the Red Wings 8–1, but the replays call it close to a coin flip: with the way both teams played, the Panthers win 6 of 10. Luck ran their way: shooting alone was worth 19 points of win probability to the Panthers.

The biggest swing (P1, 15:03 left): Vinnie Hinostroza scored on a snap shot from 46 feet, worth 16 points of win probability to the Panthers.

Final

Detroit Red Wings 1
Florida Panthers 8

April 15, 2026 · Amerant Bank Arena

Luck index +43 Panthers lucky · −43 Red Wings

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. Red Wings win 4, Panthers win 6.

  1. 1 DET 3 FLA 0
  2. 2 DET 5 FLA 3
  3. 3 DET 6 FLA 5
  4. 4 DET 3 FLA 2
  5. 5 DET 1 FLA 2
  6. 6 DET 3 FLA 4
  7. 7 DET 4 FLA 6
  8. 8 DET 2 FLA 5
  9. 9 DET 1 FLA 4
  10. 10 DET 2 FLA 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 3,999.8 replays ended

Red Wings win 43% of them, Panthers 57%. The line is what actually happened: Panthers by 7.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Red Wings by 3+15.7%
Red Wings by 27.9%
Red Wings by 119.0%
Panthers by 120.5%
Panthers by 210.6%
Panthers by 3+26.3%

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 +5.0 goals to the Panthers: the final margin was Panthers by 7, without the luck Panthers by 2. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Red Wings4112.92−1.92
Panthers4283.26+4.74

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 5:49 Hooking on the Panthers (Cole Reinhardt): 2 minutes on the power play +4% DET
P2 11:27 Hooking on the Red Wings (J.T. Compher): 2 minutes on the power play +3% FLA
P3 18:41 Tripping on the Panthers (Matthew Tkachuk): 2 minutes on the power play 0% DET
P3 8:15 Slashing on the Panthers (Vinnie Hinostroza): 2 minutes on the power play 0% DET

When it happened

Panthers’ chance of winning

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 Panthers were ahead in it, below while the Red Wings were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 15:03 Vinnie Hinostroza scored on a snap shot from 46 feetShooting · 2% chance +16% FLA –
2 P1 13:39 Andrew Copp’s snap shot from 14 feet was savedShooting · 16% chance +3% FLA –
3 P1 5:49 Hooking on the Panthers (Cole Reinhardt): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% DET –
4 P2 16:44 Mikulas Hovorka’s snap shot from 6 feet was savedShooting · 28% chance +4% DET –
5 P2 14:23 Luke Kunin scored on a snap shot from 21 feetShooting · 10% chance +13% FLA –
6 P2 11:27 Hooking on the Red Wings (J.T. Compher): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +3% FLA –
7 P2 11:04 A.J. Greer scored on a wraparound from 4 feetShooting · 6% chance +7% FLA –
8 P2 10:21 Mike Benning scored on a wrist shot from 39 feetShooting · 4% chance +3% FLA –

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

Red Wings 16% · Panthers 84%

Final margin
Panthers by 7
Luck in goals
5.0 for the Panthers
Luck-adjusted margin
Panthers by 2.0
Replay with same day's form
Red Wings 43% · Panthers 57% 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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