2026-27 regular season · October 8, 2026
No betting line for this game, so there is no before-puck-drop or fresh-game number.
Canucks at Hurricanes, Oct 8, 2026: who deserved to win?
The Hurricanes beat the Canucks 7–2, and the replays back it up: with the way both teams actually played, the Hurricanes win 9 of 10.
The biggest swing (P1, 18:42 left): K'Andre Miller scored on a snap shot from 26 feet, worth 14 points of win probability to the Hurricanes.
Final
 Vancouver Canucks | 2 |
|---|---|
 Carolina Hurricanes | 7 |
Replay with same day's form
Luck index +13 Hurricanes about even · −13 Canucks
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. Canucks win 1, Hurricanes win 9.
- 1 VAN 5 CAR 4
- 2 VAN 3 CAR 4
- 3 VAN 2 CAR 4
- 4 VAN 3 CAR 6
- 5 VAN 2 CAR 5
- 6 VAN 1 CAR 5
- 7 VAN 2 CAR 7
- 8 VAN 2 CAR 8
- 9 VAN 3 CAR 10
- 10 VAN 0 CAR 8
Our prediction before puck drop
We had the Hurricanes by 1.3, 71% to win. The Hurricanes won by 5: the pick was right. The final margin was 3.7 goals from ours; 11% of games like this end further from the forecast than that.
Show as a table
| Outcome | Chance |
|---|---|
| Canucks win | 29.0% |
| Hurricanes win | 71.0% |
| Middle 50%: Canucks by 1 to Hurricanes by 3 | 50% |
| Middle 90%: Canucks by 3 to Hurricanes by 5 | 90% |
| Middle 95%: Canucks by 4 to Hurricanes by 6 | 95% |
| Exactly Hurricanes by 1 | 22.4% |
| Exactly Hurricanes by 3 | 18.7% |
| Exactly Canucks by 1 | 14.6% |
| Exactly Hurricanes by 2 | 12.6% |
| Exactly Hurricanes by 4 | 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 Thu, Oct 8, 1:43 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 3,999.8 replays ended
Canucks win 13% of them, Hurricanes 87%. The line is what actually happened: Hurricanes by 5.
Show as a table
| Final margin in the replays | Share of replays |
|---|---|
| Canucks by 3+ | 2.1% |
| Canucks by 2 | 2.0% |
| Canucks by 1 | 8.8% |
| Hurricanes by 1 | 10.9% |
| Hurricanes by 2 | 8.7% |
| Hurricanes by 3+ | 67.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Canucks | 29 | 2 | 1.80 | +0.20 |
 Hurricanes | 46 | 7 | 5.24 | +1.76 |
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 16:33 | Holding on the Hurricanes (K'Andre Miller): 2 minutes on the power play | +3% VAN |
| P1 14:08 | Tripping on the Canucks (Drew O'Connor): 2 minutes on the power play | +3% CAR |
| P1 10:40 | Hooking on the Canucks (Linus Karlsson): 2 minutes on the power play | +3% CAR |
| P1 0:52 | Interference on the Hurricanes (Jesperi Kotkaniemi): 2 minutes on the power play | +1% VAN |
| P2 7:47 | Interference on the Hurricanes (Jalen Chatfield): 2 minutes on the power play | +1% VAN |
| P2 2:44 | Cross checking on the Canucks (Max Sasson): 2 minutes on the power play | 0% CAR |
| P3 18:54 | Tripping on the Hurricanes (Jalen Chatfield): 2 minutes on the power play | 0% VAN |
When it happened
Hurricanes’ chance of winning
Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, listed below.
| # | When | What happened | Win probability for | Next drive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P1 18:42 | K'Andre Miller scored on a snap shot from 26 feetShooting · 9% chance | +14% CAR | – |
| 2 | P1 16:33 | Holding on the Hurricanes (K'Andre Miller): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +3% VAN | – |
| 3 | P1 14:08 | Tripping on the Canucks (Drew O'Connor): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +3% CAR | – |
| 4 | P1 12:49 | Andrei Svechnikov scored on a backhand shot from 9 feetShooting · 15% chance | +11% CAR | – |
| 5 | P1 10:40 | Hooking on the Canucks (Linus Karlsson): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +3% CAR | – |
| 6 | P1 10:35 | Andrei Svechnikov scored on a snap shot from 4 feetShooting · 42% chance | +5% CAR | – |
| 7 | P2 16:40 | Mark Jankowski scored on a snap shot from 14 feetShooting · 13% chance | +3% CAR | – |
| 8 | P2 15:57 | Jake DeBrusk scored on a wrist shot from 10 feetShooting · 10% chance | +3% VAN | – |
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
Canucks 1% · Hurricanes 99%
- Final margin
- Hurricanes by 5
- Luck in goals
- 1.2 for the Hurricanes
- Luck-adjusted margin
- Hurricanes by 3.8
- Replay with same day's form
- Canucks 13% · Hurricanes 87% 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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