2026-27 regular season · October 10, 2026
No betting line for this game, so there is no before-puck-drop or fresh-game number.
Canucks at Devils, Oct 10, 2026: who deserved to win?
The Devils beat the Canucks 4–1, and the replays lean their way: with the same day's form, they win 7 of 10.
The biggest swing (P1, 3:36 left): Jesper Boqvist scored on a wrist shot from 7 feet, worth 15 points of win probability to the Devils.
Final
 Vancouver Canucks | 1 |
|---|---|
 New Jersey Devils | 4 |
Replay with same day's form
Luck index +29 Devils lucky · −29 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 3, Devils win 7.
- 1 VAN 4 NJD 1
- 2 VAN 3 NJD 2
- 3 VAN 6 NJD 5
- 4 VAN 7 NJD 8
- 5 VAN 3 NJD 4
- 6 VAN 0 NJD 2
- 7 VAN 1 NJD 4
- 8 VAN 1 NJD 4
- 9 VAN 1 NJD 5
- 10 VAN 0 NJD 5
Our prediction before puck drop
We had the Devils by 0.9, 66% to win. The Devils won by 3: the pick was right. The final margin was 2.1 goals from ours; 32% of games like this end further from the forecast than that.
Show as a table
| Outcome | Chance |
|---|---|
| Canucks win | 34.5% |
| Devils win | 65.5% |
| Middle 50%: Canucks by 1 to Devils by 3 | 50% |
| Middle 90%: Canucks by 3 to Devils by 5 | 90% |
| Middle 95%: Canucks by 4 to Devils by 5 | 95% |
| Exactly Devils by 1 | 22.5% |
| Exactly Devils by 3 | 16.8% |
| Exactly Canucks by 1 | 16.5% |
| Exactly Devils by 2 | 12.0% |
| Exactly Devils by 4 | 8.6% |
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 Sat, Oct 10, 12:07 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 3,999.9 replays ended
Canucks win 29% of them, Devils 71%. The line is what actually happened: Devils by 3.
Show as a table
| Final margin in the replays | Share of replays |
|---|---|
| Canucks by 3+ | 6.3% |
| Canucks by 2 | 5.5% |
| Canucks by 1 | 17.3% |
| Devils by 1 | 18.7% |
| Devils by 2 | 12.2% |
| Devils by 3+ | 39.9% |
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 | 33 | 1 | 2.09 | −1.09 |
 Devils | 48 | 4 | 3.59 | +0.41 |
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 15:28 | Hooking on the Devils (Anthony Mantha): 2 minutes on the power play | +4% VAN |
| P1 12:58 | High sticking on the Canucks (Jonathan Lekkerimäki): 2 minutes on the power play | +4% NJD |
| P2 16:43 | Hooking on the Canucks (Brock Boeser): 2 minutes on the power play | +4% NJD |
| P2 1:53 | Tripping on the Canucks (Drew O'Connor): 2 minutes on the power play | +2% NJD |
| P2 0:10 | High sticking double minor on the Devils (Evan Rodrigues): 4 minutes on the power play | +2% VAN |
| P3 17:59 | Hooking on the Canucks (Brock Boeser): 2 minutes on the power play | +1% NJD |
When it happened
Devils’ chance of winning
As low as 37% and as high as 100%. Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, listed below.
| # | When | What happened | Win probability for | Next drive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P1 15:28 | Hooking on the Devils (Anthony Mantha): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +4% VAN | – |
| 2 | P1 14:33 | Linus Karlsson scored on a snap shot from 25 feetShooting · 15% chance | +14% VAN | – |
| 3 | P1 12:58 | High sticking on the Canucks (Jonathan Lekkerimäki): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +4% NJD | – |
| 4 | P1 11:57 | Nico Hischier scored on a wrist shot from 18 feetShooting · 20% chance | +14% NJD | – |
| 5 | P1 3:36 | Jesper Boqvist scored on a wrist shot from 7 feetShooting · 17% chance | +15% NJD | – |
| 6 | P2 16:43 | Hooking on the Canucks (Brock Boeser): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +4% NJD | – |
| 7 | P2 15:24 | Jesper Bratt scored on a wrist shot from 14 feetShooting · 7% chance | +13% NJD | – |
| 8 | P2 0:10 | Nico Hischier scored on a snap shot from 7 feetShooting · 13% chanceHigh sticking double minor on the Devils (Evan Rodrigues): 4 minutes on the power playPenalty calls | +3% NJD | – |
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 12% · Devils 88%
- Final margin
- Devils by 3
- Luck in goals
- 1.1 for the Devils
- Luck-adjusted margin
- Devils by 1.9
- Replay with same day's form
- Canucks 29% · Devils 71% 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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