2026-27 regular season · October 6, 2026
No betting line for this game, so there is no before-puck-drop or fresh-game number.
Panthers at Kings, Oct 6, 2026: who deserved to win?
The Panthers beat the Kings 2–1, and the replays lean their way: with the same day's form, they win 6 of 10.
The biggest swing (P3, 8:40 left): Matthew Tkachuk scored on a wrist shot from 26 feet, worth 32 points of win probability to the Panthers.
Final
 Florida Panthers | 2 |
|---|---|
 Los Angeles Kings | 1 |
Replay with same day's form
Luck index +37 Panthers lucky · −37 Kings
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. Panthers win 6, Kings win 4.
- 1 FLA 6 LAK 2
- 2 FLA 6 LAK 3
- 3 FLA 5 LAK 2
- 4 FLA 3 LAK 1
- 5 FLA 4 LAK 3
- 6 FLA 3 LAK 2
- 7 FLA 1 LAK 2
- 8 FLA 2 LAK 3
- 9 FLA 3 LAK 5
- 10 FLA 0 LAK 3
Our prediction before puck drop
We had the Kings by 0.2, 53% to win. The Panthers won by 1, a result we gave 47%. The final margin was 1.2 goals from ours; 59% of games like this end further from the forecast than that.
Show as a table
| Outcome | Chance |
|---|---|
| Panthers win | 46.8% |
| Kings win | 53.2% |
| Middle 50%: Panthers by 2 to Kings by 2 | 50% |
| Middle 90%: Panthers by 4 to Kings by 4 | 90% |
| Middle 95%: Panthers by 4 to Kings by 5 | 95% |
| Exactly Kings by 1 | 21.4% |
| Exactly Panthers by 1 | 19.7% |
| Exactly Kings by 3 | 12.7% |
| Exactly Panthers by 3 | 10.5% |
| Exactly Kings by 2 | 10.2% |
Most of the distance between a forecast and a final score is luck: a hot goalie, a post or a deflection moves a hockey score more than anything known before the game. Made Tue, Oct 6, 9:49 pm ET and frozen at puck drop. How our predictions have done
Three other ways to ask
Each answers a different question, so none of them replaces the replay above.
Before puck drop
No closing line for this game.
Same teams, fresh game
Needs the closing line, which this game has not got.
Only coin-flips re-rolled
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
Panthers win 63% of them, Kings 37%. The line is what actually happened: Panthers by 1.
Show as a table
| Final margin in the replays | Share of replays |
|---|---|
| Panthers by 3+ | 29.3% |
| Panthers by 2 | 12.4% |
| Panthers by 1 | 21.3% |
| Kings by 1 | 20.1% |
| Kings by 2 | 7.9% |
| Kings by 3+ | 9.1% |
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.
| Shooting | Unblocked attempts | Goals | Expected goals | Above expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Panthers | 46 | 2 | 2.85 | −0.85 |
 Kings | 32 | 1 | 1.81 | −0.81 |
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.
| When | Call | Win probability for |
|---|---|---|
| P1 9:57 | Roughing on the Kings (Mikey Anderson): 2 minutes on the power play | +4% FLA |
| P1 4:23 | Tripping on the Panthers (Eetu Luostarinen): 2 minutes on the power play | +4% LAK |
| P1 0:56 | Interference on the Panthers (Eetu Luostarinen): 2 minutes on the power play | +4% LAK |
| P1 0:17 | High sticking double minor on the Panthers (Dmitry Kulikov): 4 minutes on the power play | +8% LAK |
| P2 14:41 | Tripping on the Kings (Alex Turcotte): 2 minutes on the power play | +5% FLA |
| P2 11:07 | Interference on the Kings (Brandt Clarke): 2 minutes on the power play | +5% FLA |
| P2 0:53 | High sticking double minor on the Kings (Brandt Clarke): 4 minutes on the power play | +12% FLA |
| P3 13:27 | Tripping on the Kings (Artemi Panarin): 2 minutes on the power play | +7% FLA |
| P3 13:23 | Slashing on the Panthers (Sam Bennett): 2 minutes on the power play | +7% LAK |
When it happened
Kings’ chance of winning
As low as 0% and as high as 72%. Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, listed below.
| # | When | What happened | Win probability for | Next drive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P1 1:00 | Alex Laferriere scored on a wrist shot from 18 feetShooting · 8% chance | +17% LAK | – |
| 2 | P1 0:17 | High sticking double minor on the Panthers (Dmitry Kulikov): 4 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +8% LAK | – |
| 3 | P2 16:11 | Seth Jones scored on a wrist shot from 10 feetShooting · 10% chance | +17% FLA | – |
| 4 | P2 0:53 | High sticking double minor on the Kings (Brandt Clarke): 4 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +12% FLA | – |
| 5 | P3 18:12 | Eetu Luostarinen’s snap shot from 8 feet was savedShooting · 23% chance | +6% LAK | – |
| 6 | P3 13:27 | Tripping on the Kings (Artemi Panarin): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +7% FLA | – |
| 7 | P3 13:23 | Slashing on the Panthers (Sam Bennett): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +7% LAK | – |
| 8 | P3 8:40 | Matthew Tkachuk scored on a wrist shot from 26 feetShooting · 6% chance | +32% 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
Panthers 69% · Kings 31%
- Final margin
- Panthers by 1
- Luck in goals
- none
- Luck-adjusted margin
- Panthers by 1.0
- Replay with same day's form
- Panthers 63% · Kings 37% unchanged: why
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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