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NHL Tue, Oct 27 Final

Bruins @ Hurricanes

Simulated 100,000 times

TeamTypicalReal
BOS Bruins 3 1
CAR Hurricanes 4 2

✓ The sim had it. The Hurricanes won 62% of the runs, and won the real game, CAR by 1.

Every run’s final margin

Typical · CAR by 1
Real · CAR by 1
← BOS by 6+ 0 CAR by 6+ →
Final margin in each of 100,000 runs. Taller bar, more runs ended that way.

Player by player

The share of all 100,000 runs in which each player scored a goal, and had at least a point. G and A: what they really did.

Bruins
Player GoalPointGA
David Pastrnak 36%64%01
JJ Peterka 21%44%00
Pavel Zacha 16%41%10
Mason Lohrei 13%30%00
Hampus Lindholm 12%30%00
Morgan Geekie 11%48%00
Will Borgen 10%22%00
Nikita Zadorov 9%32%00
Charlie McAvoy 9%36%00
Frederic Brunet 8%26%00
Connor Clifton 5%12%––
Jonathan Aspirot 4%4%––
Hurricanes
Player GoalPointGA
Logan Stankoven 36%49%00
Sebastian Aho 33%68%10
Andrei Svechnikov 32%56%01
Jackson Blake 28%65%10
Nikolaj Ehlers 24%50%01
Shayne Gostisbehere 19%52%00
Sean Walker 18%48%00
Jaccob Slavin 17%35%00
K'Andre Miller 15%33%00
Jordan Martinook 15%42%00
Jalen Chatfield 15%28%00
Seth Jarvis 7%20%00

The typical game

Not an average: one real run out of the 100,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them. BOS 3, CAR 4.

Skaters

Bruins
Player GAShots
Morgan Geekie 022
David Pastrnak 103
JJ Peterka 102
Connor Clifton 101
Fraser Minten 013
Marat Khusnutdinov 010
Elias Lindholm 003
Hurricanes
Player GAShots
Andrei Svechnikov 026
Shayne Gostisbehere 105
Sebastian Aho 105
William Carrier 102
Nikolaj Ehlers 102
Jackson Blake 012
Jalen Chatfield 011
Jesperi Kotkaniemi 011
Seth Jarvis 010
Logan Stankoven 006

Goalies

Bruins
Player Shots againstSaves
Jeremy Swayman 3834
Hurricanes
Player Shots againstSaves
Pyotr Kochetkov 2219

What went in

  • Shots each team takes vs. what tonight's opponent allows; finishing vs. tonight's goalies (Jeremy Swayman / Pyotr Kochetkov, projected); power plays at real rates. ESPN, 2026-27.
  • Tested on last season (Feb–Apr 2026, 449 games it never saw): 58% of winners.
  • 100,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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