When Sam Reinhart’s wrister slipped past Stuart Skinner in Monday’s Game 7, proving to be the game winner in an all-time great Stanley Cup series, astute NHL Network viewers may not have been too surprised. That’s because those who prepared for each game by watching the network’s “NHL Tonight” program had seen as Strat-O-Matic (@strat-o-matic), the market leader in sports simulation games, simulated each game, correctly predicting the outcome of all seven contests, including six within one of the actual goal differential. And the Game 7 simulation even tabbed Reinhart as the scorer of the winning marker.
Strat-O-Matic provided NHL Network with the simulations based on the latest version of its popular hockey game, updated with proprietary statistical data to best simulate current player use, abilities and tendencies. Hockey fans can utilize Strat-O-Matic’s game to replay hockey seasons dating back to 1945-46, including several newly-added WHA campaigns.
Strat-O-Matic 2024 Stanley Cup Finals Simulations with Game Results
| Simulation | Result | |
| Florida, 3-1 | Game 1 | Florida, 3-0 |
| Florida, 5-2 | Game 2 | Florida, 4-1 |
| Florida, 3-2 | Game 3 | Florida, 4-3 |
| Edmonton, 3-2 | Game 4 | Edmonton, 8-1 |
| Edmonton, 4-3 | Game 5 | Edmonton, 5-3 |
| Edmonton, 5-2 | Game 6 | Edmonton, 5-1 |
| Florida, 4-3 | Game 7 | Florida, 2-1 |
The success of the Stanley Cup simulation comes on the heels of an extremely accurate basketball championship prediction, which saw Strat-O-Matic’s model tabbing Boston as the champion in its preseason simulation and had the squad winning the title in five games over Dallas in its pre-finals work.