Detroit Red Wings at Boston Bruins: game preview
DetroitRed Wings2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 41-31-10 · 92 pts · 16that
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8thEight points apart last season
Detroit finished last season 16th in the league on 92 points. Boston finished 8th on 100, and the 2025-26 season series went BOS 3-1-0.
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Meeting number 627
Across 626 completed games, Detroit lead the head-to-head 320-283-23.
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 29 Nov 2025, Detroit were 18th in the league and Boston 12th. By 21 Mar 2026 it was 11th and 9th.
Detroit out-attempted Boston 250 to 239
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Detroit Red Wings
Boston Bruins
Detroit 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 Detroit, 4 for Boston. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Detroit, 10 for Boston.
2025-26: 82 games for Detroit, 82 for Boston.
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.
Detroit crease
DET · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Feb
No appearances against Boston in the last meetings.
Boston crease
BOS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Feb
No appearances against Detroit in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.0 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
Detroit2.332.672.943.15
Boston2.252.753.323.05Goals 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.
8 on the injury lists
Detroit · injuries
Boston · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed F Dylan Larkin on the non-roster injured reserve.
Assigned Fs Ondrej Becher, Cameron Butler, Sheldon Dries, Noah Dower Nilsson, Dylan James, Jesse Kiiskinen, John Leonard, Sutter Muzzatti, Theo Rochette, Dominik Shine and Wilmer Skoog, Ds Ronnie Attard, Jacob Bryson, Shai Buium and William Lagesson and Gs Trey Augustine and Michal Postava to Grand Rapids (AHL).
Acquired F Sutter Muzzatti from Nashville Predators for future considerations.
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.
Detroit · 2026 draft
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