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NHL Wed, Oct 28 Final

Flames @ Oilers

Simulated 100,000 times

TeamGame shownReal
CGY Flames 1 0
EDM Oilers 3 4

✓ The sim had it. The Oilers won 54% of the runs, and won the real game, EDM by 4.

Every run’s final margin

Game shown · EDM by 2
Real · EDM by 4
← CGY by 6+ 0 EDM 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.

Flames
Player GoalPointGA
Matvei Gridin 30%57%00
Joel Farabee 29%71%00
Matt Coronato 27%70%00
Morgan Frost 27%55%00
Zayne Parekh 22%47%00
Mikael Backlund 20%28%00
Yegor Sharangovich 18%35%00
Simon Nemec 14%50%00
Jake Middleton 10%20%00
Kevin Bahl 9%19%00
Yan Kuznetsov 9%26%00
Zach Whitecloud 9%11%00
Oilers
Player GoalPointGA
Leon Draisaitl 52%80%00
Evan Bouchard 41%80%01
Connor McDavid 38%88%02
Vasily Podkolzin 35%57%00
Kasperi Kapanen 20%33%10
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 13%29%02
Mathieu Joseph 12%30%10
Alex Formenton 12%30%10
Ryan Shea 11%31%00
Mattias Ekholm 9%23%10
Connor Murphy 9%17%00
Jake Walman 9%16%––

What a Oilers win looks like

One real run out of the 100,000: a Oilers win, with the final drawn as often as it came up in the runs. An example of how it could go, not a predicted score. CGY 1, EDM 3. 2.2% of runs ended exactly that way.

Skaters

Flames
Player GAShots
Matt Coronato 104
Martin Pospisil 011
Yegor Sharangovich 004
Adam Klapka 004
Zayne Parekh 003
Oilers
Player GAShots
Evan Bouchard 030
Leon Draisaitl 206
Vasily Podkolzin 104
Connor McDavid 015
Kasperi Kapanen 010

Goalies

Flames
Player Shots againstSaves
Devin Cooley 2522
Oilers
Player Shots againstSaves
Tristan Jarry 2726

What went in

  • Shots each team takes vs. what tonight's opponent allows; finishing vs. tonight's goalies (Devin Cooley / Tristan Jarry, 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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