Who is favoured, New York Rangers or Detroit Red Wings?

Detroit Red Wings, at 55.5% in PuckCast's preseason forecast. That is a rating-based forecast; the full model read, with goalies, rest and form, publishes within seven days of puck drop.

What is a preseason forecast?

A win probability from each team's regressed preseason rating and home ice, the same ratings behind the 2026-27 projected standings. Those ratings are calibrated at the season level, for standings and playoff odds; this single-game percentage is a plain rating formula and has not been graded on its own yet. It is deliberately unsure about any single game, and the confidence grade says how far it leans.

When does the real prediction publish?

Inside the seven-day window before the game. The model re-scores it on every refresh until puck drop, with the confirmed starting goalies, and this page shows that read instead of the forecast.

New York Rangers at Detroit Red Wings, Fri, Oct 2: prediction and odds forecast

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2026-27 forecast · Fri, Oct 2, 6:30 PM ET

New York RangersNYR

91 proj. pts · 37.5% playoffs

Igor Shesterkin · 0.912 SV%

Bvs6:30 PM ET

Detroit Red WingsDET

A preseason forecast from each team's regressed rating and home ice, the ratings behind the projected standings. The full model read, with the starting goalies, rest and form, publishes within seven days of the game and replaces this page’s numbers. How the model works

The read

Preseason ratings · last season’s record

at 5v5 last season the two were level on expected goals (48.4% to 48.0%); DET's power play ran at 22.6% against a NYR kill at 79.9%.

In goal, neither team has named a starter. Last season Igor Shesterkin (NYR) saved 2.2 goals above expected to John Gibson's -12.5, on save percentages of 0.912 and 0.901.

None of that is the model read. This is a rating-and-home-ice forecast; the full prediction — confirmed goalies, rest and form, priced against the market — publishes inside the seven days before puck drop and replaces these numbers. Detroit Red Wings over New York Rangers is where it starts, not where it ends.

The market

opening-week board

Best posted price per side across 4 books, taken Sep 17. The percentages beside them are what those prices imply with the book’s margin removed.

Side	Best price	Book	Market (no vig)	Forecast	Gap
NYR	+120	BetMGM	43.5%	44.5%	+1.0 pts
DET	-141	Bovada	56.5%	55.5%	-0.9 pts

Total 6.5 · over +124 at DraftKings · under -141 at Bovada. No lean either way: the preseason forecast has no goal model, so the model’s total publishes with the slate.

This is a rating forecast against a posted price, not a bet. No stake is sized and nothing here enters the graded ledger. The full model read publishes inside seven days of puck drop and replaces these numbers.