Toronto Maple Leafs at San Jose Sharks: game preview
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28that
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24thEight points apart last season
Toronto finished last season 28th in the league on 78 points. San Jose finished 24th on 86.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 72
Across 71 completed games, San Jose lead the head-to-head 36-30-5.
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 11 Dec 2025, Toronto were 19th in the league and San Jose 20th. By 2 Apr 2026 it was 25th and 21st.
San Jose out-attempted Toronto 115 to 113
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Toronto Maple Leafs
San Jose Sharks
Toronto 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 Toronto, 3 for San Jose. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Toronto, 10 for San Jose.
2025-26: 82 games for Toronto, 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.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Toronto
Small sampleSan Jose
Small sampleSkaters to watch
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.
Toronto crease
TOR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 30 Dec
No appearances against San Jose in the last meetings.
San Jose crease
SJS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 30 Dec
No appearances against Toronto in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.6 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
Toronto2.752.753.093.65
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.
11 on the injury lists
Toronto · injuries
San Jose · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed RW Nikita Grebenkin on injured reserve.
Moved C Max Domi from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed D Cade Webber on the injured non-roster list.
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.
Toronto · 2026 draft
See all: Toronto · 2026 draft →San Jose · 2026 draft
See all: San Jose · 2026 draft →Saturday 2 January · the full slate
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