Tampa Bay Lightning at Seattle Kraken: game preview
Tampa BayLightning2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 50-26-6 · 106 pts · 5that
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27thTwenty-seven points apart last season
Tampa Bay finished last season 5th in the league on 106 points. Seattle finished 27th on 79.
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, Tampa Bay were 6th in the league and Seattle 20th. By 26 Mar 2026 it was 5th and 24th.
Tampa Bay out-attempted Seattle 307 to 247
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Tampa Bay Lightning
Seattle Kraken
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: 3 games for Tampa Bay, 4 for Seattle. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Tampa Bay, 10 for Seattle.
2025-26: 82 games for Tampa Bay, 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
Tampa Bay
Small sampleSeattle
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.
Andrei Vasilevskiy
See all: Andrei Vasilevskiy →TBL · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Jan
Philipp Grubauer
See all: Philipp Grubauer →SEA · 0-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Joey Daccord .911 (3 GP)
Full game logScoring 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
Tampa Bay2.672.333.542.82
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
Tampa Bay · injuries
Seattle · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
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.
Tampa Bay · 2026 draft
See all: Tampa Bay · 2026 draft →Seattle · 2026 draft
See all: Seattle · 2026 draft →
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