Seattle Kraken at Pittsburgh Penguins: game preview
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27that
PittsburghPenguins2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 41-25-16 · 98 pts · 10thNineteen points apart last season
Seattle finished last season 27th in the league on 79 points. Pittsburgh finished 10th on 98.
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 7-3-0.
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 22 Nov 2025, Seattle were 7th in the league and Pittsburgh 16th. By 19 Jan 2026 it was 23rd and 13th.
Pittsburgh out-attempted Seattle 131 to 97
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Seattle Kraken
Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Seattle, 10 for Pittsburgh.
2025-26: 82 games for Seattle, 82 for Pittsburgh.
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.
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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 17 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 17 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Seattle crease
SEA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 15 Dec
No appearances against Pittsburgh in the last meetings.
Pittsburgh crease
PIT · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 15 Dec
No appearances against Seattle in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.5 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
Pittsburgh5.002.673.573.27Goals 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.
6 on the injury lists
Seattle · injuries
Pittsburgh · 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.
Activated C/RW Benjamin Kindel from injured reserve. Placed C/LW David Gustafsson on waivers.
Assigned F Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).
Reinstated C Blake Lizotte from injured reserve.
Seattle · 2026 draft
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