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NHL Week 6 · 2026-27

2026-27 regular season · October 20, 2026

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

Jets at Blues, Oct 20, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Blues beat the Jets 2–1, and the replays lean their way: with the same day's form, they win 6 of 10.

The biggest swing (P3, 11:13 left): Philip Broberg scored on a slap shot from 42 feet, worth 28 points of win probability to the Blues.

Final

Winnipeg Jets 1
St. Louis Blues 2

October 20, 2026 · Enterprise Center

Our prediction before puck drop: Blues by 0.2

Luck index +39 Blues lucky · −39 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. Jets win 4, Blues win 6.

  1. 1 WPG 4 STL 1
  2. 2 WPG 4 STL 2
  3. 3 WPG 3 STL 2
  4. 4 WPG 3 STL 2
  5. 5 WPG 1 STL 2
  6. 6 WPG 1 STL 2
  7. 7 WPG 4 STL 5
  8. 8 WPG 2 STL 4
  9. 9 WPG 1 STL 4
  10. 10 WPG 2 STL 6

Our prediction before puck drop

We had the Blues by 0.2, 53% to win. The Blues won by 1: the pick was right. The final margin was 0.8 goals from ours; 79% of games like this end further from the forecast than that.

Show as a table
OutcomeChance
Jets win47.2%
Blues win52.8%
Middle 50%: Jets by 2 to Blues by 250%
Middle 90%: Jets by 4 to Blues by 490%
Middle 95%: Jets by 4 to Blues by 595%
Exactly Blues by 121.4%
Exactly Jets by 119.8%
Exactly Blues by 312.6%
Exactly Jets by 310.6%
Exactly Blues by 210.1%

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 20, 11:27 am 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.

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 4,000 replays ended

Jets win 39% of them, Blues 61%. The line is what actually happened: Blues by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Jets by 3+10.7%
Jets by 28.0%
Jets by 120.5%
Blues by 123.1%
Blues by 211.2%
Blues by 3+26.5%

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 +0.4 goals to the Blues: the final margin was Blues by 1, without the luck Blues by 0.6. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Jets4912.50−1.50
Blues4122.93−0.93

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 5:40 Elbowing on the Jets (Tyrel Bauer): 2 minutes on the power play +4% STL
P2 16:56 Holding on the Jets (Cole Koepke): 2 minutes on the power play +4% STL
P2 16:33 Holding the stick on the Blues (Jimmy Snuggerud): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P2 14:18 Slashing on the Jets (Haydn Fleury): 2 minutes on the power play +4% STL
P2 5:13 Tripping on the Jets (Dylan Samberg): 2 minutes on the power play +4% STL
P2 1:31 High sticking on the Blues (Jimmy Snuggerud): 2 minutes on the power play +5% WPG
P3 11:35 Tripping on the Jets (Dylan Samberg): 2 minutes on the power play +7% STL
P3 6:18 Interference on the Blues (Colton Parayko): 2 minutes on the power play +5% WPG

When it happened

Blues’ 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 Blues were ahead in it, below while the Jets were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 7:30 Jimmy Snuggerud scored on a deflected shot from 19 feetShooting · 9% chance +15% STL –
2 P2 1:31 High sticking on the Blues (Jimmy Snuggerud): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +5% WPG –
3 P3 19:28 Cole Perfetti scored on a backhand shot from 12 feetShooting · 9% chance +23% WPG –
4 P3 11:35 Tripping on the Jets (Dylan Samberg): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +7% STL –
5 P3 11:13 Philip Broberg scored on a slap shot from 42 feetShooting · 8% chance +28% STL –
6 P3 6:18 Interference on the Blues (Colton Parayko): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +5% WPG –
7 P3 1:51 Kyle Connor’s slap shot from 23 feet was savedShooting · 18% chance +8% STL –
8 P3 1:46 Cole Perfetti’s wrist shot from 16 feet was savedShooting · 14% chance +6% STL –

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

Jets 42% · Blues 58%

Final margin
Blues by 1
Luck in goals
0.4 for the Blues
Luck-adjusted margin
Blues by 0.6
Replay with same day's form
Jets 39% · Blues 61% 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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