Buffalo Sabres at Seattle Kraken: game preview
BuffaloSabres2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 50-23-9 · 109 pts · 4that
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27thThirty points apart last season
Buffalo finished last season 4th in the league on 109 points. Seattle finished 27th on 79.
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, Seattle lead the head-to-head 7-2-1.
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 14 Dec 2025, Buffalo were 25th in the league and Seattle 29th. By 28 Mar 2026 it was 4th and 23rd.
Buffalo out-attempted Seattle 129 to 121
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Buffalo Sabres
Seattle Kraken
Buffalo 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 Buffalo, 4 for Seattle. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Buffalo, 10 for Seattle.
2025-26: 82 games for Buffalo, 82 for Seattle.
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
Buffalo
Small sampleSeattle
Small sampleSkaters to watch
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.
Buffalo crease
BUF · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 3 Dec
No appearances against Seattle in the last meetings.
Seattle crease
SEA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 3 Dec
No appearances against Buffalo in the last meetings.
Scoring 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
Buffalo3.333.673.512.94
Seattle3.752.752.763.21Goals 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.
9 on the injury lists
Buffalo · injuries
Seattle · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Loaned D Dennis Gilbert to Rochester (AHL).
Recalled D Dennis Gilbert from Rochester (AHL). Placed G Alex Lyon and D Olen Zellweger on injured reserve. Signed D Louis Crevier to a four-year contract. Transferred F Matthew Savoie to long-term injured reserve.
Signed C Noah Östlund to an eight-year contract.
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.
Buffalo · 2026 draft
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