Seattle Kraken at Boston Bruins: game preview
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27that
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8thTwenty-one points apart last season
Seattle finished last season 27th in the league on 79 points. Boston finished 8th on 100.
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 5-4-1.
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 6 Jan 2026, Seattle were 15th in the league and Boston 18th. By 15 Jan 2026 it was 19th and 11th.
Boston out-attempted Seattle 126 to 117
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Seattle Kraken
Boston Bruins
Boston 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, 4 for Boston. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Seattle, 10 for Boston.
2025-26: 82 games for Seattle, 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
Seattle
Small sampleBoston
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.
Seattle crease
SEA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Mar
No appearances against Boston in the last meetings.
Boston crease
BOS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Mar
No appearances against Seattle 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
Seattle3.752.752.763.21
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.
4 on the injury lists
Seattle · injuries
Boston · 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.
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.
Seattle · 2026 draft
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