San Jose Sharks at Dallas Stars: game preview
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24that
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdTwenty-six points apart last season
San Jose finished last season 24th in the league on 86 points. Dallas finished 3rd on 112, and the 2025-26 season series went DAL 2-0-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 164
Across 163 completed games, Dallas lead the head-to-head 89-57-16.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 5 Dec 2025, San Jose were 25th in the league and Dallas 2nd. By 5 Oct it was 13th and 26th.
Dallas out-attempted San Jose 277 to 268
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
San Jose Sharks
Dallas Stars
Dallas 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: 3 games for San Jose, 3 for Dallas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for San Jose, 10 for Dallas.
2025-26: 82 games for San Jose, 82 for Dallas.
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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Small sampleDallas
Small sampleMikko Rantanen has 8 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.
Mikko Rantanen vs San Jose · game by game
See all: Mikko Rantanen vs San Jose · game by game →Jake Oettinger has started most of these meetings
Jake Oettinger played 3 of the last 5 meetings with San Jose, with a .940 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
San Jose crease
SJS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 4 Nov
Two goalies used against Dallas
Jake Oettinger
See all: Jake Oettinger →DAL · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 4 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Casey DeSmith .923 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.3 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
San Jose3.004.003.063.56
Dallas2.002.003.402.76Goals 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
San Jose · injuries
Dallas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
Assigned D Cameron Bertucci to Texas (AHL).
Placed F Matt Duchene on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Sept. 29. Recalled Fs Arttu Hyry and Colin Blackwell from Texas (AHL).
Signed G Casey DeSmith to a two-year contract.
San Jose · 2026 draft
See all: San Jose · 2026 draft →Dallas · 2026 draft
See all: Dallas · 2026 draft →Saturday 7 November · the full slate
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