Seattle Kraken at San Jose Sharks: game preview
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27that
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24thSeven points apart last season
Seattle finished last season 27th in the league on 79 points. San Jose finished 24th on 86, and the 2025-26 season series went SEA 2-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 19
Across 18 completed games, Seattle lead the head-to-head 11-7-0.
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 5 Nov 2025, Seattle were 13th in the league and San Jose 30th. By 20 Dec 2025 it was 29th and 21st.
San Jose out-attempted Seattle 205 to 158
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Seattle Kraken
San Jose Sharks
Seattle and San Jose are level on 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 San Jose. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Seattle, 10 for San Jose.
2025-26: 82 games for Seattle, 82 for San Jose.
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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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.
Seattle crease
SEA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Dec
No appearances against San Jose in the last meetings.
San Jose crease
SJS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Dec
No appearances against Seattle in the last meetings.
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
Seattle3.752.752.763.21
San Jose3.004.003.063.56Goals 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.
9 on the injury lists
Seattle · injuries
San Jose · 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 Patrick Giles on waivers.
Placed G Ilya Samsonov on waivers.
Placed RW Ethan Cardwell, D Libor Hajek and LW Tye Felhaber on waivers.
Seattle · 2026 draft
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