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NHL Week 6 · 2026-27

2026-27 regular season · October 25, 2026

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

Canadiens at Jets, Oct 25, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Canadiens beat the Jets 2–1, but the replays lean toward the Jets: they take 6 of 10 with the same day's form. Luck ran their way: shooting alone was worth 46 points of win probability to the Canadiens.

The biggest swing (P2, 12:41 left): Lane Hutson scored on a wrist shot from 15 feet, worth 19 points of win probability to the Canadiens.

Final

Montreal Canadiens 2
Winnipeg Jets 1

October 25, 2026 · Princess Auto Stadium

Our prediction before puck drop: Jets by 0.2

Luck index +62 Canadiens very lucky · −62 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. Canadiens win 4, Jets win 6.

  1. 1 MTL 5 WPG 2
  2. 2 MTL 6 WPG 4
  3. 3 MTL 4 WPG 3
  4. 4 MTL 3 WPG 2
  5. 5 MTL 3 WPG 4
  6. 6 MTL 3 WPG 4
  7. 7 MTL 1 WPG 3
  8. 8 MTL 1 WPG 4
  9. 9 MTL 0 WPG 3
  10. 10 MTL 3 WPG 8

Our prediction before puck drop

We had the Jets by 0.2, 54% to win. The Canadiens won by 1, a result we gave 46%. 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
OutcomeChance
Canadiens win46.5%
Jets win53.5%
Middle 50%: Canadiens by 2 to Jets by 250%
Middle 90%: Canadiens by 4 to Jets by 490%
Middle 95%: Canadiens by 4 to Jets by 595%
Exactly Jets by 121.5%
Exactly Canadiens by 119.7%
Exactly Jets by 312.8%
Exactly Canadiens by 310.4%
Exactly Jets by 210.2%

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 Sun, Oct 25, 12:45 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.

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

Canadiens win 38% of them, Jets 62%. The line is what actually happened: Canadiens by 1.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Canadiens by 3+12.9%
Canadiens by 27.4%
Canadiens by 117.7%
Jets by 119.5%
Jets by 210.9%
Jets by 3+31.7%

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 +1.6 goals to the Canadiens: the final margin was Canadiens by 1, without the luck Jets by 0.7. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Canadiens4222.72−0.72
Jets5213.91−2.91

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 3:46 Interference on the Canadiens (Alexandre Carrier): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P2 7:07 High sticking on the Canadiens (Alex Newhook): 2 minutes on the power play +3% WPG
P3 14:52 Tripping on the Canadiens (Alex Newhook): 2 minutes on the power play +3% WPG
P3 1:32 Tripping on the Canadiens (Josh Anderson): 2 minutes on the power play +6% WPG

When it happened

Jets’ chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 54%. 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 Canadiens were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 3:46 Interference on the Canadiens (Alexandre Carrier): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% WPG –
2 P1 2:24 Gabriel Vilardi missed the net with a wrist shot from 8 feetShooting · 22% chance +4% MTL –
3 P2 12:41 Lane Hutson scored on a wrist shot from 15 feetShooting · 8% chance +19% MTL –
4 P2 8:56 Kaiden Guhle scored on a wrist shot from 63 feetShooting · 1% chance +16% MTL –
5 P3 4:36 Isak Rosen scored on a snap shot from 18 feetShooting · 9% chance +9% WPG –
6 P3 1:36 Neal Pionk’s wrist shot from 11 feet was savedShooting · 17% chance +7% MTL –
7 P3 1:32 Tripping on the Canadiens (Josh Anderson): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +6% WPG –
8 P3 1:09 Gabriel Vilardi missed the net with a slap shot from 31 feetShooting · 9% chance +4% MTL –

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

Canadiens 32% · Jets 68%

Final margin
Canadiens by 1
Luck in goals
1.6 for the Canadiens
Luck-adjusted margin
Jets by 0.6
Replay with same day's form
Canadiens 38% · Jets 62% 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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