San Jose Sharks at Seattle Kraken: game preview
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24that
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27thSeven points apart last season
San Jose finished last season 24th in the league on 86 points. Seattle finished 27th on 79, and the 2025-26 season series went SEA 2-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 19
Across 18 completed games, Seattle lead the head-to-head 11-7-0.
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 5 Nov 2025, San Jose were 30th in the league and Seattle 13th. By 20 Dec 2025 it was 21st and 29th.
San Jose out-attempted Seattle 205 to 158
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
San Jose Sharks
Seattle Kraken
San Jose and Seattle 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: 3 games for San Jose, 4 for Seattle. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for San Jose, 10 for Seattle.
2025-26: 82 games for San Jose, 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
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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.
San Jose crease
SJS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 13 Jan
No appearances against Seattle in the last meetings.
Seattle crease
SEA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 13 Jan
No appearances against San Jose in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 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
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.
9 on the injury lists
San Jose · injuries
Seattle · 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.
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.
San Jose · 2026 draft
See all: San Jose · 2026 draft →Seattle · 2026 draft
See all: Seattle · 2026 draft →Saturday 16 January · the full slate
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