Seattle Kraken at Los Angeles Kings: game preview
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27that
Los AngelesKings2026-27: 0-2-1 · 1 pts · 2025-26: 35-27-20 · 90 pts · 20thEleven points apart last season
Seattle finished last season 27th in the league on 79 points. Los Angeles finished 20th on 90, 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, Seattle were 25th in the league and Los Angeles 11th. By 13 Apr 2026 it was 27th and 20th.
Los Angeles out-attempted Seattle 268 to 237
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Seattle Kraken
Los Angeles Kings
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: 4 games for Seattle, 3 for Los Angeles. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Seattle, 10 for Los Angeles.
2025-26: 82 games for Seattle, 82 for Los Angeles.
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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Small sampleLos Angeles
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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 18 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 16 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Seattle crease
SEA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 16 Jan
No appearances against Los Angeles in the last meetings.
Los Angeles crease
LAK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 16 Jan
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
Los Angeles3.005.002.743.01Goals 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
Los Angeles · 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.
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.
Seattle · 2026 draft
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