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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · April 16, 2026

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

Sharks at Jets, Apr 16, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Sharks beat the Jets 6–1, but the replays call it close to a coin flip: with the way both teams played, the Sharks win 6 of 10. Luck ran their way: goaltending alone was worth 22 points of win probability to the Sharks.

The biggest swing (P1, 3:06 left): Will Smith scored on a snap shot from 18 feet, worth 16 points of win probability to the Sharks.

Final

San Jose Sharks 6
Winnipeg Jets 1

April 16, 2026 · Canada Life Centre

Luck index +41 Sharks lucky · −41 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. Sharks win 6, Jets win 4.

  1. 1 SJS 5 WPG 0
  2. 2 SJS 8 WPG 4
  3. 3 SJS 5 WPG 2
  4. 4 SJS 5 WPG 3
  5. 5 SJS 4 WPG 3
  6. 6 SJS 5 WPG 4
  7. 7 SJS 3 WPG 4
  8. 8 SJS 2 WPG 3
  9. 9 SJS 1 WPG 3
  10. 10 SJS 3 WPG 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 3,999.9 replays ended

Sharks win 59% of them, Jets 41%. The line is what actually happened: Sharks by 5.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Sharks by 3+30.2%
Sharks by 210.0%
Sharks by 118.7%
Jets by 119.4%
Jets by 28.2%
Jets by 3+13.5%

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 +3.2 goals to the Sharks: the final margin was Sharks by 5, without the luck Sharks by 1.9. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Sharks4763.73+2.27
Jets4912.93−1.93

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 14:33 High sticking on the Jets (Nino Niederreiter): 2 minutes on the power play +3% SJS
P1 6:20 Tripping on the Sharks (Sam Dickinson): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P2 9:37 Too many men on the ice on the Sharks (SJS): 2 minutes on the power play +3% WPG
P3 14:52 Holding on the Sharks (Shakir Mukhamadullin): 2 minutes on the power play 0% WPG
P3 1:56 High sticking double minor on the Jets (Ville Heinola): 4 minutes on the power play 0% SJS

When it happened

Jets’ chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 70%. 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 Jets were ahead in it, below while the Sharks were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 16:32 Cole Koepke scored on a snap shot from 28 feetShooting · 12% chance +14% WPG –
2 P1 13:36 Igor Chernyshov’s wrist shot from 6 feet was savedShooting · 25% chance +4% WPG –
3 P1 13:34 Igor Chernyshov scored on a wrist shot from 8 feetShooting · 14% chance +14% SJS –
4 P1 6:20 Tripping on the Sharks (Sam Dickinson): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% WPG –
5 P1 3:06 Will Smith scored on a snap shot from 18 feetShooting · 11% chance +16% SJS –
6 P2 18:19 Michael Misa’s snap shot from 6 feet was savedShooting · 28% chance +4% WPG –
7 P2 14:09 Collin Graf scored on a wrist shot from 22 feetShooting · 13% chance +14% SJS –
8 P2 1:59 Michael Misa scored on a snap shot from 10 feetShooting · 15% chance +7% SJS –

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

Sharks 87% · Jets 13%

Final margin
Sharks by 5
Luck in goals
3.2 for the Sharks
Luck-adjusted margin
Sharks by 1.8
Replay with same day's form
Sharks 59% · Jets 41% 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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