Detroit Red Wings at Seattle Kraken: game preview
DetroitRed Wings2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 41-31-10 · 92 pts · 16that
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27thThirteen points apart last season
Detroit finished last season 16th in the league on 92 points. Seattle finished 27th on 79, and the 2025-26 season series went DET 2-0-0.
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, Detroit lead the head-to-head 6-2-2.
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 18 Nov 2025, Detroit were 6th in the league and Seattle 14th. By 6 Dec 2025 it was 15th and 26th.
Detroit out-attempted Seattle 313 to 299
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Detroit Red Wings
Seattle Kraken
Detroit 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 Detroit, 4 for Seattle. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Detroit, 10 for Seattle.
2025-26: 82 games for Detroit, 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
Detroit
Small sampleSeattle
Small sampleLucas Raymond has 7 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.
Lucas Raymond vs Seattle · game by game
See all: Lucas Raymond vs Seattle · game by game →Joey Daccord has started most of these meetings
Joey Daccord played 5 of the last 5 meetings with Detroit, with a .873 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Detroit crease
DET · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 17 Oct
Joey Daccord
See all: Joey Daccord →SEA · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 17 Oct
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Philipp Grubauer .906 (2 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.0 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
Detroit2.332.672.943.15
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.
10 on the injury lists
Detroit · injuries
Seattle · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed F Dylan Larkin on the non-roster injured reserve.
Assigned Fs Ondrej Becher, Cameron Butler, Sheldon Dries, Noah Dower Nilsson, Dylan James, Jesse Kiiskinen, John Leonard, Sutter Muzzatti, Theo Rochette, Dominik Shine and Wilmer Skoog, Ds Ronnie Attard, Jacob Bryson, Shai Buium and William Lagesson and Gs Trey Augustine and Michal Postava to Grand Rapids (AHL).
Acquired F Sutter Muzzatti from Nashville Predators for future considerations.
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.
Detroit · 2026 draft
See all: Detroit · 2026 draft →Seattle · 2026 draft
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