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NHL Week 6 · 2026-27

2026-27 regular season · November 1, 2026

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

Jets at Hurricanes, Nov 1, 2026: who deserved to win?

The Hurricanes beat the Jets 7–0, and the replays lean their way: with the same day's form, they win 7 of 10.

The biggest swing (P1, 14:44 left): Sean Walker scored on a snap shot from 37 feet, worth 15 points of win probability to the Hurricanes.

Luck index +26 Hurricanes lucky · −26 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 3, Hurricanes win 7.

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

Our prediction before puck drop

We had the Hurricanes by 0.9, 64% to win. The Hurricanes won by 7: the pick was right. The final margin was 6.1 goals from ours; fewer than 1% of games like this end further from the forecast than that.

Show as a table
OutcomeChance
Jets win35.8%
Hurricanes win64.2%
Middle 50%: Jets by 1 to Hurricanes by 350%
Middle 90%: Jets by 3 to Hurricanes by 590%
Middle 95%: Jets by 4 to Hurricanes by 595%
Exactly Hurricanes by 122.5%
Exactly Jets by 116.9%
Exactly Hurricanes by 316.4%
Exactly Hurricanes by 211.8%
Exactly Hurricanes by 48.3%

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, Nov 1, 11:58 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 26% of them, Hurricanes 74%. The line is what actually happened: Hurricanes by 7.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Jets by 3+6.9%
Jets by 25.2%
Jets by 113.6%
Hurricanes by 115.7%
Hurricanes by 210.4%
Hurricanes by 3+48.3%

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 +3.9 goals to the Hurricanes: the final margin was Hurricanes by 7, without the luck Hurricanes by 3.1. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Jets4302.81−2.81
Hurricanes5574.64+2.36

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 15:54 Tripping on the Hurricanes (Nicolas Deslauriers): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P1 12:40 Hooking on the Jets (Dylan Samberg): 2 minutes on the power play +3% CAR
P1 11:04 High sticking on the Jets (Elias Salomonsson): 2 minutes on the power play +3% CAR
P1 0:37 Roughing on the Hurricanes (Andrei Svechnikov): 2 minutes on the power play +4% WPG
P2 17:49 Hooking on the Jets (Alex Iafallo): 2 minutes on the power play +3% CAR
P2 15:14 Slashing on the Jets (Alex Iafallo): 2 minutes on the power play +1% CAR
P2 6:06 Tripping on the Hurricanes (K'Andre Miller): 2 minutes on the power play 0% WPG
P3 13:14 Cross checking on the Jets (Cole Perfetti): 2 minutes on the power play 0% CAR

When it happened

Hurricanes’ 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 Hurricanes were ahead in it, below while the Jets were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 15:54 Tripping on the Hurricanes (Nicolas Deslauriers): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% WPG –
2 P1 14:44 Sean Walker scored on a snap shot from 37 feetShooting · 6% chance +15% CAR –
3 P1 12:40 Hooking on the Jets (Dylan Samberg): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +3% CAR –
4 P1 11:04 High sticking on the Jets (Elias Salomonsson): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +3% CAR –
5 P1 0:37 Roughing on the Hurricanes (Andrei Svechnikov): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +4% WPG –
6 P2 19:20 Mark Scheifele’s snap shot from 23 feet was savedShooting · 25% chance +5% CAR –
7 P2 18:05 Juuso Välimäki scored on a slap shot from 55 feetShooting · 2% chance +14% CAR –
8 P2 17:41 Sebastian Aho scored on a wrist shot from 5 feetShooting · 25% chance +6% CAR –

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 7% · Hurricanes 93%

Final margin
Hurricanes by 7
Luck in goals
3.9 for the Hurricanes
Luck-adjusted margin
Hurricanes by 3.1
Replay with same day's form
Jets 26% · Hurricanes 74% 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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