Los Angeles Kings at Seattle Kraken: game preview
Los AngelesKings2026-27: 0-2-1 · 1 pts · 2025-26: 35-27-20 · 90 pts · 20that
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27thEleven points apart last season
Los Angeles finished last season 20th in the league on 90 points. Seattle finished 27th on 79, and the 2025-26 season series went SEA 3-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 20
Across 19 completed games, Seattle lead the head-to-head 10-8-1.
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 10 Dec 2025, Los Angeles were 11th in the league and Seattle 25th. By 13 Apr 2026 it was 20th and 27th.
Los Angeles out-attempted Seattle 268 to 237
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Los Angeles Kings
Seattle Kraken
Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles, 4 for Seattle. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Los Angeles, 10 for Seattle.
2025-26: 82 games for Los Angeles, 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
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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.
Expected starter after their game on 18 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 19 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Los Angeles crease
LAK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Mar
No appearances against Seattle in the last meetings.
Seattle crease
SEA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Mar
No appearances against Los Angeles 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
Los Angeles3.005.002.743.01
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.
6 on the injury lists
Los Angeles · injuries
Seattle · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed D Otto Salin on the injured non-roster list. Loaned G Erik Portillo to Ontario (AHL).
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford (AHL) Fs Martin Chromia, Cole Guttman, Lane Pederson and Francesco Pinelli and D Joe Hicketts. Loaned Fs Aatu Jamsen and Koehn Ziemmer, Ds Angus Booth, Kirill Kirsanov and Jared Woolley to Ontario. Placed F Jan Jenik and D Jakub Dvorak on injured reserve.
Signed F Elton Hermansson to a three-year, entry-level 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.
Los Angeles · 2026 draft
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