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Early look · NHL 2026-27

Seattle Kraken at Utah Mammoth: game preview

Puck drop19 Feb · 9:00 PM ET
VenueDelta Center
All-time meetings6 completed
BasisLast 5 meetings + 2025-26
The thesis

Thirteen points apart last season

Seattle finished last season 27th in the league on 79 points. Utah finished 15th on 92.

Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.

Head-to-head

Meeting number 7

Across 6 completed games, Utah lead the head-to-head 4-2-0.

All-time record4-2-0Utah's record in the series
Meetings played6This is number 7
2025-26 series—
Last 54-1Utah
DateResultShotsPower playWinner
2 Apr 2026UTA 6 – SEA 2——UTA
17 Jan 2026SEA 3 – UTA 6——UTA
12 Dec 2025SEA 3 – UTA 5——UTA
8 Apr 2025SEA 1 – UTA 7——UTA
14 Mar 2025UTA 2 – SEA 4——SEA
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The table on each 2025-26 meeting night

DateSeattleUtah
12 Dec 202512-11-6 · 30 pts27th15-15-3 · 33 pts21st
17 Jan 202621-17-9 · 51 pts19th25-20-4 · 54 pts16th
2 Apr 202632-31-11 · 75 pts27th39-30-6 · 84 pts18th

League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 12 Dec 2025, Seattle were 27th in the league and Utah 21st. By 2 Apr 2026 it was 27th and 18th.


Where the shots come from · last 5 meetings

Utah out-attempted Seattle 209 to 175

Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.

Seattle Kraken

175 att · 85 on goal · 8 G · 9.4%
Crease15 att · 1 G
Slot63 att · 6 G
Wing69 att · 1 G
Point25 att · 0 G
Neutral zone3 att · 0 G

Utah Mammoth

209 att · 95 on goal · 17 G · 17.9%
Crease17 att · 3 G
Slot78 att · 8 G
Wing72 att · 5 G
Point33 att · 1 G
Neutral zone9 att · 0 G
GoalOn goalMissedBlocked

Expected goals

Utah 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.

SeattleUtah
2.60xG for per game3.62
3.14xG against per game2.71
45.3%xG share57.2%
+4.6FinishingGoals minus expected goals+2.5
+1.6GoaltendingExpected goals against minus goals allowed+2.8

This season: 4 games for Seattle, 4 for Utah. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.

Every team’s xG →


Special teams

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 sample
Power play · 2026-2725.0%
Power play · 2025-2619.5% · 20th
Power play · last 5 meetings—
Penalty kill · 2026-2772.7%
Penalty kill · 2025-2672.2% · 31st
Faceoffs · 2026-2749.6% · 121/244
Drawn · 2026-2712 (3.00/gm)
Drawn · last meetings0 (0.00/gm)
Shorthanded · 2026-2711 (2.75/gm)
PP goals · last meetings0

Utah

Small sample
Power play · 2026-2761.5%
Power play · 2025-2620.0% · 18th
Power play · last 5 meetings—
Penalty kill · 2026-2792.9%
Penalty kill · 2025-2678.1% · 19th
Faceoffs · 2026-2753.0% · 124/234
Drawn · 2026-2713 (3.25/gm)
Drawn · last meetings0 (0.00/gm)
Shorthanded · 2026-2714 (3.50/gm)
PP goals · last meetings0

Skaters

Skaters to watch

Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.

PlayerGPGAPP/GP
19Jared McCann41451.25
7Jordan Eberle42241.00
8Nick Schmaltz45271.75
11Dylan Guenther43361.50
Points leaders
PlayerGPGAPP/GP
29Vince Dunn41341.00
62Brandon Montour40220.50
41Ryker Evans40220.50
20Andrew Peeke41120.50
Defencemen stats

Goaltending

Who has stopped this matchup

Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.

Expected startersAn estimate until the teams confirmEvery game tonight →

Expected starter after their game on 17 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.

Expected starter after their game on 17 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.

Seattle crease

SEA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 16 Feb

Joey Daccord.9113 GP · 2-1-0 · GSAx +1.0
Philipp Grubauer.9062 GP · 0-1-0 · GSAx +1.1

No appearances against Utah in the last meetings.

Utah crease

UTA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 16 Feb

Karel Vejmelka.9133 GP · 2-1-0 · GSAx +1.7
Sebastian Cossa.9471 GP · 1-0-0 · GSAx +1.4

No appearances against Seattle in the last meetings.


Totals

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

2 Apr 20268 · UTA 6–2 SEA
17 Jan 20269 · SEA 3–6 UTA
12 Dec 20258 · SEA 3–5 UTA
8 Apr 20258 · SEA 1–7 UTA
14 Mar 20256 · UTA 2–4 SEA

Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.

Scoring rates

Team26-27 GF26-27 GA25-26 GF25-26 GA
Seattle3.752.752.763.21
Utah4.252.003.272.93

Goals 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.

Scoring rates suggest6.1Goals in this game
Last 5 meetings7.8Goals per game
Line—No total posted yet
Books at the line—With the game-day prices

Team news

5 on the injury lists

Seattle · injuries

Jacob MelansonUpper BodyIRReturn17 Oct
Jake O'BrienLower BodyIRReturn24 Oct
Ryan LindgrenUpper BodyDay-to-dayReturn9 Oct

Utah · injuries

Maveric LamoureuxShoulderIRReturn12 Feb
Mikhail SergachevUpper BodyDay-to-dayReturn8 Oct
3 Oct · SEA

Activated RW/C Mackie Samoskevich from injured reserve. Placed RW Jacob Melanson on injured reserve.

27 Sep · SEA

Placed C Jake O'Brien and RW Mackie Samoskevich on injured reserve.

21 Sep · SEA

Placed F Jon-Randall Avon, F John Hayden, F Logan Morrison and G Victor Ostman on waivers.

27 Sep · UTA

Placed LW Ben McCartney on waivers.

25 Sep · UTA

Assigned Fs Yegor Borikov, Caleb Desnoyers, Tij Iginla, Gabe Smith and G Michael Hrabal to Tucson (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Fs Brandon Tanev and Joshua Roy and D Zac Jones.

23 Jul 2026 · UTA

Signed D Max Psenicka to a three-year contract.

Injury report
#7Chase ReidRound 1 · Sault Ste. MarieD
#38Casey MutrynRound 2 · Usa U-18RW
#99Viktor FedorovRound 4 · Torpedo-gorky NnC
#131Finn KearnsRound 5 · St. Andrews CollegeD
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#17Ethan BelchetzRound 1 · WindsorLW
#96Adam ValentiniRound 3 · MichiganC
#115Carl AxelssonRound 4 · MuskegonG
#130Theodor KnightsRound 5 · Modo Jr.D
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