Boston Bruins at Anaheim Ducks: game preview
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8that
AnaheimDucks2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 18thEight points apart last season
Boston finished last season 8th in the league on 100 points. Anaheim finished 18th on 92.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 49
Across 48 completed games, Anaheim lead the head-to-head 27-14-7.
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 23 Oct 2025, Boston were 29th in the league and Anaheim 13th. By 19 Nov 2025 it was 14th and 4th.
Boston out-attempted Anaheim 335 to 319
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Boston Bruins
Anaheim Ducks
Anaheim 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 Boston, 2 for Anaheim. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Boston, 10 for Anaheim.
2025-26: 82 games for Boston, 87 for Anaheim.
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
Boston
Small sampleAnaheim
Small sampleLeo Carlsson 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.
Leo Carlsson vs Boston · game by game
See all: Leo Carlsson vs Boston · game by game →Lukas Dostal has started most of these meetings
Lukas Dostal played 2 of the last 5 meetings with Boston, with a .918 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Boston crease
BOS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 13 Oct
Lukas Dostal
See all: Lukas Dostal →ANA · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 13 Oct
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 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
Boston2.252.753.323.05
Anaheim3.502.503.333.51Goals 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
Boston · injuries
Anaheim · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
Signed D Tristan Luneau to a six-year contract extension.
Reassigned C Roger McQueen and C Cruz Lucius to San Diego (AHL). Recalled D Noah Warren, D Ian Mitchell and D Tristan Luneau from San Diego. Placed D Drew Helleson on injured reserve. Moved RW Troy Terry from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed G Laurent Brossoit and D Travis Mitchell on waivers.
Boston · 2026 draft
See all: Boston · 2026 draft →Anaheim · 2026 draft
See all: Anaheim · 2026 draft →Friday 16 October · the full slate
See all: Friday 16 October · the full slate →
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