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NHL Tue, Oct 27 Final

Wild @ Mammoth

Simulated 100,000 times

TeamTypicalReal
MIN Wild 3 3
UTA Mammoth 4 1

✗ A miss. The Mammoth won 52% of the runs, but the Wild won the real game, MIN by 2. MIN won by that much or more in 29% of runs.

Every run’s final margin

Typical · UTA by 1
Real · MIN by 2
← MIN by 6+ 0 UTA 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.

Wild
Player GoalPointGA
Kirill Kaprizov 42%68%11
Matt Boldy 40%62%01
Joel Eriksson Ek 31%61%10
Quinn Hughes 28%73%02
Blake Coleman 24%31%00
Danila Yurov 19%27%00
Michael McCarron 18%47%00
Maxim Shabanov 15%45%10
Jared Spurgeon 11%38%00
Zach Bogosian 11%12%00
Jonas Brodin 9%32%00
Olli Maatta 5%22%00
Mammoth
Player GoalPointGA
Nick Schmaltz 32%56%01
Dylan Guenther 31%52%00
Mikhail Sergachev 27%66%01
Clayton Keller 25%65%00
MacKenzie Weegar 21%33%00
Kailer Yamamoto 20%41%00
Vincent Trocheck 19%40%00
Lawson Crouse 16%34%00
Logan Cooley 15%53%10
Dmitri Simashev 14%27%00
Nate Schmidt 12%26%00
Andrew Peeke 11%30%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. MIN 3, UTA 4.

Skaters

Wild
Player GAShots
Kirill Kaprizov 116
Jonas Brodin 103
Quinn Hughes 103
Bobby Brink 012
Ryan Hartman 011
Nico Sturm 010
Blake Coleman 003
Matt Boldy 003
Mammoth
Player GAShots
Logan Cooley 030
Mikhail Sergachev 021
Nick Schmaltz 104
Barrett Hayton 103
Vincent Trocheck 102
Lawson Crouse 101
Clayton Keller 011
Kevin Stenlund 010
Dylan Guenther 003

Goalies

Wild
Player Shots againstSaves
Jesper Wallstedt 2622
Mammoth
Player Shots againstSaves
Karel Vejmelka 2623

What went in

  • Shots each team takes vs. what tonight's opponent allows; finishing vs. tonight's goalies (Jesper Wallstedt / Karel Vejmelka, 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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