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TOR 4 – 5 SEA

Toronto Maple Leafs at Seattle Kraken

Final · Oct 28, 2026
2026-27 · regular season
The call
SEA 52.1% ✓
expected 3.04–3.15 · SEA won 4–5
actual xG
1.72–2.42
xG share, predicted → actual
TOR 49% → 42%51% → 58% SEA
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On the ice
Adjusts with rink filters

Strength and score are read from TOR's side, the same minutes at both ends: PP = TOR power play · PK = SEA power play · Leading = TOR ahead · ST = each club's own power play.

TOR attacks◀ all strengths
SEA attacksall strengths ▶
× goal• on net ◦ missed· blocked hover any attempt for the shooter, its xG and everything the model saw
How to read this map

One rink, both teams: TOR attacks the left net, SEA the right. Every attempt is a Gaussian bump of height = its model xG. The controls switch the surface (xG heatmap ↔ vs league) and the markers; vs league compares this game against a typical NHL team-game under the same filter (2026-27 regular season, 283 games), so a 5v5 view is measured against league 5v5.

A strength or score filter is read from TOR's side and mirrored for SEA: “TOR PP” shows TOR's power-play attempts on the left and SEA's shorthanded attempts on the right — the same minutes of the game at both ends. Empty-net attempts are excluded unless you include them. The Player control narrows the map and the rows beneath it to the attempts by either club while one player was on the ice (for a goalie, while he was in net); his own attempts wear a blue ring. vs league switches off while a player is picked — the league baseline is a whole team-game, which one player's slice is not. Hover any attempt for the shooter, the result, its xG, and the inputs behind it: clock, strength, score, shot type, distance, angle, handedness, rush/rebound, what happened just before, and the goalie or the blocker.

What each side produced

all strengths · this game
TOR SEA
bars share a scale within each row · the longer bar is the row's leader
Goalson the map
4 5
Expected goals
1.72 2.42
xG%share of xG
42% 58%
High-dangerattempts ≥ 0.20 xG
1 0
Shots on goal
22 17
Attempts
50 44
xG by period · whole game 1st0.7–0.82nd0.3–1.33rd0.8–0.3

The Kraken beat the Maple Leafs 5–4 at home in a game the chances called about even, TOR 1.7 to SEA 2.4 in expected goals. SEA scored 5 on 2.4 expected.

Counts come from the shot table behind the map: empty-net attempts and the shootout are excluded, so the goals here can trail the official final by an empty-netter or the shootout's deciding goal. Same numbers as the post-game cards.

As the game went

all situations · this game
cumulative TOR − SEA xG · bands = power plays · lines = goals
1ST2ND3RD+0.5−0.5+1−1+1.5−1.5TOR AHEAD ▲SEA AHEAD ▼
How to read this

One line: cumulative TOR minus SEA expected goals. Above zero TOR is ahead on chances, below zero SEA is. Shaded bands are power plays in the side's colour; vertical lines are goals.

Goals

this game
xG = the chance, before it went in
TeamScorerPeriodTimexG
TORGavin McKenna 1st19:14 PP 0.10
TORGavin McKenna 2nd1:46 PP 0.13
TORJack Roslovic 3rd8:02 0.25
TORAuston Matthews 3rd18:30 PP 0.06
SEABerkly Catton 1st1:59 0.11
SEAJosh Mahura 2nd0:16 0.09
SEAChandler Stephenson 2nd3:33 PP 0.01
SEARyker Evans 2nd10:58 0.05
SEABrandon Montour 3rd19:27 0.04
Who

Skaters

all · whole game · this game
on-ice xG for and against, his own attempts, the net
strength
period
sort
How to read this

Every skater: on-ice xG against to the left of zero, for to the right, his own attempts as the solid bar, a hash at the net. The slim track under the name is ice time. The chart opens sorted by net, best first; pick another key to re-order it, and click the same key again to flip it. A name opens the player's page. Pick a period and every bar re-lays for that period alone on the same scale as the whole game, so the three periods add up to it; a skater who did not play in it fades to the bottom.

TOR
against for own net ice time
0.50.5110Jack RoslovicF17:28+0.68Gavin McKennaF15:33+0.52Auston MatthewsF20:08+0.25Darren RaddyshD24:49+0.12Easton CowanF19:08+0.06William NylanderF22:13-0.03Vinni LettieriF9:15-0.04Bo GroulxF6:23-0.09Morgan RiellyD19:52-0.12Troy StecherD21:48-0.17Dakota MermisD9:52-0.18Zack MacEwenF8:21-0.33Nick PaulF16:19-0.46Colton SissonsF13:49-0.49Brandon DuhaimeF13:35-0.50Oliver Ekman-LarssonD16:45-0.58Teddy BluegerF12:59-0.59Jake McCabeD23:12-1.01
0.250.250.50.50.750.75110Vinni LettieriF9:06+0.07Troy StecherD15:49+0.06Bo GroulxF6:14+0.02Gavin McKennaF12:28-0.02Colton SissonsF10:56-0.12Morgan RiellyD18:41-0.14Jack RoslovicF13:53-0.17Dakota MermisD9:06-0.18Auston MatthewsF15:20-0.18Easton CowanF16:01-0.26Nick PaulF14:44-0.27Darren RaddyshD19:43-0.27William NylanderF16:02-0.29Teddy BluegerF9:07-0.31Jake McCabeD17:02-0.32Brandon DuhaimeF10:45-0.32Zack MacEwenF8:21-0.33Oliver Ekman-LarssonD13:52-0.60
0.250.250.50.50.750.750William NylanderF2:26+0.54Darren RaddyshD2:26+0.54Auston MatthewsF2:26+0.54Gavin McKennaF2:21+0.54Jack RoslovicF2:05+0.54Easton CowanF0:21+0.14Dakota MermisD0:05+0.00
0.250.250.50.50.750.750Dakota MermisD0:41+0.00Morgan RiellyD0:12+0.00Jack RoslovicF0:06+0.00Auston MatthewsF0:37-0.13Easton CowanF1:22-0.14Darren RaddyshD0:56-0.16Brandon DuhaimeF2:50-0.18Nick PaulF1:35-0.19Teddy BluegerF3:52-0.28Oliver Ekman-LarssonD2:14-0.30William NylanderF2:02-0.30Colton SissonsF2:44-0.37Troy StecherD5:12-0.55Jake McCabeD6:01-0.69
SEA
against for own net ice time
0.50.5110Ryan WintertonF11:02+0.55Jordan EberleF18:13+0.49Berkly CattonF15:05+0.42Matty BeniersF20:26+0.41Vince DunnD23:49+0.36Mackie SamoskevichF14:21+0.35Kaapo KakkoF14:10+0.33Bobby McMannF19:05+0.32Jani NymanF8:42+0.28Cale FleuryD8:18+0.27Shane WrightF16:43+0.26Brandon MontourD27:10+0.23Chandler StephensonF19:08+0.18Ben MeyersF11:38+0.12Josh MahuraD11:07+0.09Ryker EvansD22:57-0.03Freddy GaudreauF14:49-0.03Adam LarssonD19:21-0.26
0.250.250.50.50.750.75110Ben MeyersF10:05+0.65Ryan WintertonF9:34+0.65Freddy GaudreauF12:11+0.60Adam LarssonD16:55+0.29Jani NymanF8:42+0.28Cale FleuryD8:18+0.27Mackie SamoskevichF11:29+0.26Vince DunnD16:13+0.26Brandon MontourD22:01+0.25Josh MahuraD10:40+0.22Ryker EvansD20:44+0.16Berkly CattonF12:25+0.12Kaapo KakkoF11:37+0.03Chandler StephensonF11:54-0.01Shane WrightF12:43-0.02Bobby McMannF13:52-0.10Matty BeniersF14:16-0.12Jordan EberleF13:31-0.17
0.250.250.50.50.750.750Vince DunnD5:02+0.66Jordan EberleF4:33+0.66Chandler StephensonF5:00+0.55Matty BeniersF4:55+0.55Bobby McMannF4:46+0.55Shane WrightF3:00+0.30Brandon MontourD2:36+0.30Berkly CattonF2:31+0.30Kaapo KakkoF2:24+0.30Mackie SamoskevichF2:37+0.19Ryker EvansD0:17+0.00Ben MeyersF0:13+0.00Freddy GaudreauF0:03+0.00Ryan WintertonF0:03+0.00
0.250.250.50.50Matty BeniersF0:21+0.00Ryan WintertonF1:24-0.10Josh MahuraD0:27-0.13Bobby McMannF0:27-0.13Ryker EvansD0:56-0.18Ben MeyersF0:35-0.21Adam LarssonD1:03-0.23Vince DunnD1:02-0.23Brandon MontourD1:24-0.30Freddy GaudreauF1:04-0.31Chandler StephensonF1:01-0.36

Lines & pairs

all · whole game · this game
most-used units · when they played · on-ice xG lines are by strength · 5v5 shown
strength
period
sort
How to read this

The units that actually played together most at the chosen strength — forward lines and defence pairs at 5v5, the whole group on the ice on the power play or the kill — each with when it was on the ice at that strength across the game clock (period and power-play bands behind the strip) and on-ice xG against / for while the whole unit was out, at that strength only. Sorted by time together; pick another key to re-order, and a name opens the player's page. Pick a period and the strip veils the rest of the game while the bars re-lay for that period alone, on the whole game's scale.

TOR
on ice power play penalty kill xGA xGF
SEA
on ice power play penalty kill xGA xGF

Matchups

5v5 · this game
every skater against every skater, goalies first · hover a cell
order
TOR won the chances SEA won them full colour = a margin of 0.75 xG or more taller = more time together (full height at 12:00) on together, dead even never on together G = goalie: his row or column is each skater against the whole other team
GrubauerEberleMcMannBeniersKakkoWrightCattonStephensonGaudreauSamoskevichWintertonNymanMeyersMontourEvansLarssonDunnMahuraFleuryGL1L2L3L4D1D2D3GL1L2L3L4D1D2D3BobrovskyPaulNylanderCowanRoslovicMatthewsMcKennaBluegerDuhaimeMacEwenSissonsLettieriGroulxMcCabeRaddyshRiellyStecherEkman-LarssonMermis
How to read this

Rows are TOR's skaters, columns SEA's, grouped the way they played: forward lines (L1 = the line that played together most), then defence pairs. Each cell covers the five-on-five time those two players shared the ice. Its colour is the club that out-chanced the other in that time — expected goals for minus against — and the stronger the colour, the bigger the margin. Each cell is also raised: the taller the block, the longer the two shared the ice, up to full height at 12:00 of five-on-five time. A grey cell means they met and it came out even; an open, flat one means they never met at five-on-five.

The first row and column are the goalies. A goalie is in net for every five-on-five second, so a skater's cell against the other side's goalie is all of that skater's five-on-five time against that team — the rest of his row or column added up — and the corner where the two goalies meet is the game's five-on-five. Those cells cover far more time than any pair, so they reach full colour sooner and stand at full height, a wall along each edge of the grid. A goalie change adds a second goalie row or column, each covering his own time.

Linemates share the ice, so a line against a line reads as a block. The margin is a total, not a rate: a long matchup has room to build a big gap and a thirty-second one does not — which is what the height is there to show: a tall, strong cell is the game's story; a short, strong one is a moment. Hover (or tap) any cell for the exact time together, the xG each way, attempts and goals. One game — a strong cell is what happened, not what would happen again.

The model

The prediction, scored

🔒 pregame · this game

Before puck drop the engine made SEA a 52.1% favorite, expecting a 3.04–3.15 game — SEA won 4–5, so the call landed. Every number in this section was issued before the game and is never re-graded.

pred. xGactual xG pred. 5v5actual 5v5 pred. STactual PP
TOR 3.041.72 2.050.83 0.770.54
SEA 3.152.42 2.181.55 0.760.84

Predicted 5v5 / special-teams portions come from the predicted map's strength splits (one shared scale per team pins the all-strengths total to its expected goals), so they don't sum exactly — the remainder is 4v4, 3v3, and other mixed states. The actual columns are the card's own counts (empty-net attempts excluded); the actual PP column is power-play xG only, the same bucket the predicted map's special-teams view draws.

The pregame score grid

🔒 pregame · this game

The likeliest finals the engine saw before the game, with what actually happened marked — ■ TOR · ■ SEA.

Likeliest finals (TOR–SEA)probability
3–3 7.1% tied after regulation — OT/SO decides
2–2 6.7% tied after regulation — OT/SO decides
4–4 4.2% tied after regulation — OT/SO decides
2–4 4.1%
4–2 3.8%
4–5 1.3% what happened
4.9%4.4%014.6%13.6%122.0%21.2%222.2%22.1%316.9%17.4%410.4%11.1%55.4%5.9%62.4%2.7%71.3%1.6%8+

Scoreline odds are the engine's own grid: each team's goals as a Poisson count, with the fitted adjustment for how often games end tied after regulation (ρ = 0.35), so these odds and the headline win probability come from the same numbers. The OT/SO layer is a separate fitted model and is already inside the headline win probability.

The pregame read

🔒 pregame · this game

The engine made SEA a 52.1% favorite — SEA controls 50.9% of the predicted xG. Of TOR's 3.04 expected goals, 2.05 should come at 5v5 and 0.77 on the power play; SEA projects 2.18 at 5v5 and 0.76 on the power play. The logistic challenger put the home side at 51.2%, Elo at 55.7%.

Why SEA 52.1%
win chance× expected goals
home ice +3.6 SEA ×1.08 · TOR ×1.00
goaltending −2.8 SEA ×0.94 · TOR ×1.00
5v5 play +2.3 SEA ×1.02 · TOR ×0.97
finishing −1.6 SEA ×1.06 · TOR ×1.10
schedule +0.8 SEA ×1.01 · TOR ×0.99
special teams −0.3 SEA ×0.99 · TOR ×0.99

Win chance is in points toward SEA (bars right of the line push toward SEA, left toward TOR). Each win-chance number is one-at-a-time: that piece reset to league average (neutral ice, a typical night's rest) on both sides and the game re-priced; the pieces interact, so they don't add up to the call. The multipliers are exact: a league-average team on neutral ice, on a typical night's rest, would expect 2.89 goals in this game, and each side's expected goals is that times its column of multipliers. Special teams reads small because the engine's power-play terms fit near zero, not because special teams don't matter.

Where the engine expected the goals

🔒 pregame · this game

The predicted surface, issued before puck drop — not this game's shots (those are the card's map above). TOR attacks the left net, SEA the right; each end multiplies where the attacking team generates xG this season by where its opponent concedes it, scaled so each end totals the engine's expected goals. Actual shots lays the game's unblocked attempts on top: × goals, • on net, ◦ missed.

Context

Tale of the tape

season to date

How each team fares on its own, season to date: per-game xG rates with league rank (of 32). Rank 1 is best on every row — orange ranks sit in the top third of the league, gray in the bottom third.

TORSEA
2.73 (24th) Offense
xG for / game
2.60 (28th)
3.17 (24th) Defense
xG against / game
3.09 (19th)
0.75 (17th) Power play
PP xG / game
0.63 (25th)
0.82 (21st) Penalty kill
PP xG conceded / game
0.71 (13th)

Season-to-date form as of the site's latest build, shown for context — the ratings the engine actually used were its own as-of-game-day state. Replay this matchup in the lab →