Boston Bruins at Los Angeles Kings: game preview
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8that
Los AngelesKings2026-27: 0-2-1 · 1 pts · 2025-26: 35-27-20 · 90 pts · 20thTen points apart last season
Boston finished last season 8th in the league on 100 points. Los Angeles finished 20th on 90.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 169
Across 168 completed games, Boston lead the head-to-head 108-42-18.
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 21 Nov 2025, Boston were 10th in the league and Los Angeles 9th. By 10 Mar 2026 it was 11th and 22nd.
Los Angeles out-attempted Boston 139 to 122
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Boston Bruins
Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Boston, 10 for Los Angeles.
2025-26: 82 games for Boston, 82 for Los Angeles.
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
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Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 16 Oct: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 13 Oct: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Boston crease
BOS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 14 Oct
No appearances against Los Angeles in the last meetings.
Los Angeles crease
LAK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 14 Oct
No appearances against Boston in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.1 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
Los Angeles3.005.002.743.01Goals 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.
4 on the injury lists
Boston · injuries
Los Angeles · 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 D Otto Salin on the injured non-roster list. Loaned G Erik Portillo to Ontario (AHL).
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford (AHL) Fs Martin Chromia, Cole Guttman, Lane Pederson and Francesco Pinelli and D Joe Hicketts. Loaned Fs Aatu Jamsen and Koehn Ziemmer, Ds Angus Booth, Kirill Kirsanov and Jared Woolley to Ontario. Placed F Jan Jenik and D Jakub Dvorak on injured reserve.
Signed F Elton Hermansson to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Boston · 2026 draft
See all: Boston · 2026 draft →Los Angeles · 2026 draft
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