Boston Bruins at San Jose Sharks: game preview
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8that
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24thFourteen points apart last season
Boston finished last season 8th in the league on 100 points. San Jose finished 24th on 86.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 54
Across 53 completed games, Boston lead the head-to-head 34-16-3.
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 23 Nov 2025, Boston were 14th in the league and San Jose 20th. By 12 Mar 2026 it was 11th and 21st.
Boston out-attempted San Jose 339 to 258
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Boston Bruins
San Jose Sharks
Boston 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 Boston, 3 for San Jose. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Boston, 10 for San Jose.
2025-26: 82 games for Boston, 82 for San Jose.
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
Boston
Small sampleSan Jose
Small sampleDavid Pastrnak 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.
David Pastrnak vs San Jose · game by game
See all: David Pastrnak vs San Jose · game by game →Yaroslav Askarov has been the difference
Yaroslav Askarov faced 66 shots across 2 appearances against Boston and conceded 5, a .924 save percentage against a season figure of .862. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Jeremy Swayman
See all: Jeremy Swayman →BOS · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Oct
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Michael DiPietro .897 (1 GP)
Full game logYaroslav Askarov
See all: Yaroslav Askarov →SJS · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Oct
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 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
Boston2.252.753.323.05
San Jose3.004.003.063.56Goals 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.
7 on the injury lists
Boston · injuries
San Jose · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Reinstated C Matthew Poitras from injured reserve.
Placed RW Michael Eyssimont on waivers.
Placed D Henri Jokiharju on waivers. Placed C Matthew Poitras on injured reserve.
Placed C Patrick Giles on waivers.
Placed G Ilya Samsonov on waivers.
Placed RW Ethan Cardwell, D Libor Hajek and LW Tye Felhaber on waivers.
Boston · 2026 draft
See all: Boston · 2026 draft →San Jose · 2026 draft
See all: San Jose · 2026 draft →Tuesday 13 October · the full slate
See all: Tuesday 13 October · the full slate →
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