Seattle Kraken at Tampa Bay Lightning: game preview
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27that
Tampa BayLightning2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 50-26-6 · 106 pts · 5thTwenty-seven points apart last season
Seattle finished last season 27th in the league on 79 points. Tampa Bay finished 5th on 106.
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, Tampa Bay lead the head-to-head 8-0-2.
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 17 Mar 2026, Seattle were 20th in the league and Tampa Bay 6th. By 26 Mar 2026 it was 24th and 5th.
Tampa Bay out-attempted Seattle 307 to 247
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Seattle Kraken
Tampa Bay Lightning
Tampa Bay 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 Tampa Bay. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Seattle, 10 for Tampa Bay.
2025-26: 82 games for Seattle, 82 for Tampa Bay.
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 sampleTampa Bay
Small sampleNikita Kucherov has 12 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.
Nikita Kucherov vs Seattle · game by game
See all: Nikita Kucherov vs Seattle · game by game →Andrei Vasilevskiy has started most of these meetings
Andrei Vasilevskiy played 4 of the last 5 meetings with Seattle, with a .904 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Philipp Grubauer
See all: Philipp Grubauer →SEA · 0-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 12 Oct
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Joey Daccord .911 (3 GP)
Full game logAndrei Vasilevskiy
See all: Andrei Vasilevskiy →TBL · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 12 Oct
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
Tampa Bay2.672.333.542.82Goals 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
Tampa Bay · 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 C Jansen Harkins on waivers.
Placed D Michael Callahan on waivers.
Placed D Michael Callahan, G Mads Sogaard Nielsenon, LD Maxim Groshev, LW Jakob Pelletier and C Nicholas Abruzzese on waivers.
Seattle · 2026 draft
See all: Seattle · 2026 draft →Tampa Bay · 2026 draft
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