Seattle Kraken at Detroit Red Wings: game preview
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27that
DetroitRed Wings2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 41-31-10 · 92 pts · 16thThirteen points apart last season
Seattle finished last season 27th in the league on 79 points. Detroit finished 16th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went DET 2-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 11
Across 10 completed games, Detroit lead the head-to-head 6-2-2.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 18 Nov 2025, Seattle were 14th in the league and Detroit 6th. By 6 Dec 2025 it was 26th and 15th.
Detroit out-attempted Seattle 313 to 299
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Seattle Kraken
Detroit Red Wings
Detroit have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Seattle, 3 for Detroit. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Seattle, 10 for Detroit.
2025-26: 82 games for Seattle, 82 for Detroit.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Seattle
Small sampleDetroit
Small sampleLucas Raymond has 7 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Lucas Raymond vs Seattle · game by game
See all: Lucas Raymond vs Seattle · game by game →Joey Daccord has started most of these meetings
Joey Daccord played 5 of the last 5 meetings with Detroit, with a .873 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
- Started 3 of 3 this season
- 59 of the team's last 82 starts
2026-27: 3 GP · .903 SV% · GSAx +0
Also possible: Tarasov 14%
Joey Daccord
See all: Joey Daccord →SEA · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Chance to start · 43%
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Philipp Grubauer .906 (2 GP)
Full game logDetroit crease
DET · 2026-27 Expected: Gibson · 86%
Scoring rates point to about 6.0 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Seattle3.752.752.763.21
Detroit2.332.672.943.15Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
10 on the injury lists
Seattle · injuries
Detroit · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Activated RW/C Mackie Samoskevich from injured reserve. Placed RW Jacob Melanson on injured reserve.
Placed C Jake O'Brien and RW Mackie Samoskevich on injured reserve.
Placed F Jon-Randall Avon, F John Hayden, F Logan Morrison and G Victor Ostman on waivers.
Placed F Dylan Larkin on the non-roster injured reserve.
Assigned Fs Ondrej Becher, Cameron Butler, Sheldon Dries, Noah Dower Nilsson, Dylan James, Jesse Kiiskinen, John Leonard, Sutter Muzzatti, Theo Rochette, Dominik Shine and Wilmer Skoog, Ds Ronnie Attard, Jacob Bryson, Shai Buium and William Lagesson and Gs Trey Augustine and Michal Postava to Grand Rapids (AHL).
Acquired F Sutter Muzzatti from Nashville Predators for future considerations.
Seattle · 2026 draft
See all: Seattle · 2026 draft →Detroit · 2026 draft
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