Detroit Red Wings at San Jose Sharks: game preview
DetroitRed Wings2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 41-31-10 · 92 pts · 16that
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24thSix points apart last season
Detroit finished last season 16th in the league on 92 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 140
Across 139 completed games, Detroit lead the head-to-head 83-44-12.
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 2 Nov 2025, Detroit were 6th in the league and San Jose 30th. By 16 Jan 2026 it was 5th and 20th.
Detroit out-attempted San Jose 136 to 96
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Detroit Red Wings
San Jose Sharks
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, 3 for San Jose. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Detroit, 10 for San Jose.
2025-26: 82 games for Detroit, 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
Detroit
Small sampleSan Jose
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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.
Detroit crease
DET · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Feb
No appearances against San Jose in the last meetings.
San Jose crease
SJS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Feb
No appearances against Detroit in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.3 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
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.
13 on the injury lists
Detroit · injuries
San Jose · 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.
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.
Detroit · 2026 draft
See all: Detroit · 2026 draft →San Jose · 2026 draft
See all: San Jose · 2026 draft →Saturday 13 February · the full slate
See all: Saturday 13 February · the full slate →
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