San Jose Sharks at Vegas Golden Knights: game preview
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24that
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13thNine points apart last season
San Jose finished last season 24th in the league on 86 points. Vegas finished 13th on 95, and the 2025-26 season series went VGK 4-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 52
Across 51 completed games, Vegas lead the head-to-head 38-5-8.
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 9 Oct 2025, San Jose were 19th in the league and Vegas 5th. By 11 Jan 2026 it was 18th and 9th.
Vegas out-attempted San Jose 232 to 198
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
San Jose Sharks
Vegas Golden Knights
Vegas 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 San Jose, 4 for Vegas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for San Jose, 10 for Vegas.
2025-26: 82 games for San Jose, 87 for Vegas.
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
San Jose
Small sampleVegas
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.
San Jose crease
SJS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 6 Mar
No appearances against Vegas in the last meetings.
Vegas crease
VGK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 6 Mar
No appearances against San Jose in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.5 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
San Jose3.004.003.063.56
Vegas4.252.503.233.05Goals 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
San Jose · injuries
Vegas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
Signed C William Karlsson to a two-year contract.
Placed C Jakub Cormier, RW Matyas Hemmerling and C Jakub Uchacz on the injured non-roster list.
Placed D Jaycob Megna, D Adam Ginning, D Joe Fleming, C Jakub Demek and D Jeremy Davies on waivers.
San Jose · 2026 draft
See all: San Jose · 2026 draft →Vegas · 2026 draft
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