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Toronto Maple Leafs at Tampa Bay Lightning

NHLregular • 2025-26 Season
completed
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Lightning
Tampa Bay
2
vs
Maple Leafs logo
Maple Leafs
Toronto
3
TBL 63%37% TOR
Prediction Confidence:
Moderate

Tampa Bay Lightning 63% to win. The top 3 signals favoring Lightning:

  • Home Field Advantage. Lightning are 0-0 at home this season
  • Defensive Efficiency. Lightning defense (2.7 Opp PPG) better than Maple Leafs (3.5 Opp PPG)
  • Recent Form. Lightning (38-18) in better form than Maple Leafs (27-25)

What would change the call

Win probability as of kickoff if a leading factor were even

  • If the home-field edge were neutral: TBL 57% (−6)
  • If the defensive efficiency edge were neutral: TBL 59% (−4)
  • If the recent-form edge were neutral: TBL 59% (−4)
  • If the offensive efficiency edge were neutral: TBL 60% (−3)

Win probability movement

TBL home win probability as the model updated before the game

Home win probability movement68%63%57%Mar 10Mar 11

Labels mark updates of 5 points or more, named by the factor that moved most.

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VenueCanadian Tire Centre
Ottawa, ON

Team Comparison

Head-to-head snapshot based on our model inputs

Maple Leafs (away)
Lightning (home)
37%
Win probability
63%
0
High-impact factors
0
0
Players ruled out
0

Post-Game Analysis

How our model performed

The Maple Leafs defeated the Lightning 3-2.

Our model predicted the Lightning would win with 63% confidence, but the Maple Leafs won against the model's expectation. Results like this help us refine the model.

Looking at the factors our model weighed:

  • Home Field Advantage favored the Lightning and was a notable factor: Lightning are 0-0 at home this season
  • Defensive Efficiency favored the Lightning and was a contributing factor: Lightning defense (2.7 Opp PPG) better than Maple Leafs (3.5 Opp PPG)
  • Recent Form favored the Lightning and was a contributing factor: Lightning (38-18) in better form than Maple Leafs (27-25)

This analysis was generated from our model's pre-game assessment compared against the actual result. Factor accuracy helps improve future predictions.

Maple Leafs won 2-3

Maple Leafs won in a close game

Prediction IncorrectWe predicted Lightning at 63%

Key Factors

What's driving the win probability for this game

  • Home Field AdvantageFavors Tampa Bay Lightning
  • Defensive EfficiencyFavors Tampa Bay Lightning
  • Recent FormFavors Tampa Bay Lightning
  • Offensive EfficiencyNeutral
  • InjuriesNeutral
  • Turnover DifferentialNeutral
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What's Driving This Game

Each factor's contribution to the final win probability

TOR
TBL
Home Field Advantage
Defensive Efficiency
Recent Form
Offensive Efficiency
Favours TOR|Favours TBL

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Understanding the win probability calculation

1 factor not shown (insufficient data)

Model version: 1.0.0 • Calculated: 3/11/2026, 3:58:55 AM

Key Players

Maple Leafs

Anthony StolarzG
Samuel HlavajG
Sergei BobrovskyG
Calle JarnkrokC
Vinni LettieriC

Lightning

Harrison MeneghinG
Kyle KoninG
Andrei VasilevskiyG
Jonas JohanssonG
Dennis HildebyG

Learn About Our Analysis

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Frequently Asked Questions

Lightning has a 63% win probability, while Maple Leafs has a 37% win probability based on our analysis.

Our model considers offensive and defensive efficiency, rest days, injury impact, and historical performance.

This game is being played at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, ON.

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