WARNINGNYR
Regression watch: Rangers
The Rangers' PDO is 1.028 — running hot, expect some regression.
Weight the underlying numbers over the recent results.
Preview · NYI at NYR
Islanders at Rangers: a genuine coin flip
The model's leanTue, Oct 6
Written from the numbers
The read
Model draft
◆ By the ModelOct 6, 9:00 AMRaw model copyDrafted from NHL play-by-play by Backcheck's model. Nobody at Backcheck was at the rink. How this works
The model projects a NYI 3.1 - 3.4 NYR game with the Rangers at 53% win probability. This is about as close to a pick'em as you'll find.
Keys to the game
- Regression watch: Rangers. The Rangers' PDO is 1.028 — running hot, expect some regression.
- Regression watch: Islanders. The Islanders' PDO is 1.072 — running hot, expect some regression.
- A genuine coin flip. Win probability splits 53%–47% — margins decide this one.
Season 5v5 Numbers
| Metric | NYI | NYR |
|---|---|---|
| xG% | 52.4% | 52.7% |
| Corsi% | 46.8% | 46.2% |
| PDO | 1.072 | 1.028 |
Regression Watch
- The Rangers' PDO is 1.028 — running hot, expect some regression.
- The Islanders' PDO is 1.072 — running hot, expect some regression.
Players to Watch
Key Matchups
Data: NHL API, Backcheck xG model
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Win probability
The model's lean
NYR 53%
53%
NYR
Model favorite
47%
53%
NYI50NYR
NYR by 6 points of win probability — a modest lean. Projected score NYI 3.1–3.4 NYR; 16% chance it's tied after 60.
Source · Backcheck Poisson projection · season scoring rates
New to these numbers?
This is a preview, so every number on it is about form and rates — what each club has been doing, not what it will do tonight.
The strip above is the model's lean, built from each side's chance creation and prevention, goaltending, rest and home ice. It is not a betting line and nobody here is telling you to wager on it. Full glossary →
- Win prob
- How often this matchup ends in a win for that club, over many simulated tries. It is a lean, not a prediction — 60% teams lose plenty.
- xGF/60
- Expected goals a club creates per sixty minutes of play — its scoring-chance rate, independent of how many games it has played.
- xGA/60
- The same rate for chances it gives up. Lower is better.
- PDO
- Shooting % plus save % — a luck gauge that drifts back toward 1.000. Well above it flags a club that has been running hot.
Season rates · 5v5
Tale of the tape
NHL stats API · our xG
NYI← edge
edge →NYR
52.4%52.7%
46.8%46.2%
3.443.35
3.123.01
3.502.75
1.001.50
1.0721.028
NYI holds 4 of 6 process categories — and the luck row (1.072 vs 1.028) says NYI has been getting the bounces, which tends not to last.
Source · NHL stats API + our xG · 5v5
Form · No games yet
NYI
0-0-0
+0 GD · 0d rest
NYR
0-0-0
+0 GD · 0d rest
1.072
NYI PDO
Luck gauge · drifts to 1.000
1.028
NYR PDO
Luck gauge · drifts to 1.000
What decides it
Keys to the game
WARNINGNYI
Regression watch: Islanders
The Islanders' PDO is 1.072 — running hot, expect some regression.
Weight the underlying numbers over the recent results.
TACTICAL
A genuine coin flip
Win probability splits 53%–47% — margins decide this one.
Regression watch
- The Rangers' PDO is 1.028 — running hot, expect some regression.
- The Islanders' PDO is 1.072 — running hot, expect some regression.
Things to watch
- The Rangers' PDO is 1.028 — running hot, expect some regression.
Last game's lineup · confirmed at warm-up
Lineups
NHL box score
NYI
vs NJD · Sat, Oct 3
Expected in goal
I. Sorokin
60:00 last game
Forwards · 12
- B. Schenn14:40
- A. Duclair11:37
- B. Horvat18:31
- K. Palmieri14:37
- V. Eklund12:32
- J. Pageau14:49
- E. Heineman16:33
- C. Cizikas14:05
- M. Maccelli14:07
- C. Ritchie13:42
- O. Palat12:27
- S. Holmstrom16:46
Defence · 6
- A. Pelech19:53
- R. Pulock19:00
- L. Stanley19:10
- A. Romanov19:13
- M. Schaefer20:34
- T. DeAngelo17:44
NYR
vs UTA · Sun, Oct 4
Expected in goal
I. Shesterkin
59:58 last game
Forwards · 12
- J. Miller20:27
- A. Lafrenière21:44
- P. Dorofeyev17:57
- E. Tolvanen14:15
- T. Kartye15:18
- O. Bjorkstrand07:49
- N. Laba17:37
- J. Chmelar06:05
- W. Cuylle14:06
- J. Veleno02:13
- M. Zibanejad24:32
- G. Perreault18:18
Defence · 6
- B. Schneider17:42
- S. Durzi22:57
- A. Smits16:12
- A. Fox21:35
- M. Pettersson17:38
- V. Gavrikov19:09
Lineups are the players who dressed in each club's last game, with their minutes; clubs confirm tonight's at warm-up. Every player this preview names was in that lineup.
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