San Jose Sharks at Edmonton Oilers: game preview
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24that
EdmontonOilers2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 41-30-11 · 93 pts · 14thSeven points apart last season
San Jose finished last season 24th in the league on 86 points. Edmonton finished 14th on 93, and the 2025-26 season series went EDM 3-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 163
Across 162 completed games, Edmonton lead the head-to-head 86-60-16.
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 29 Jan 2026, San Jose were 21st in the league and Edmonton 12th. By 8 Apr 2026 it was 23rd and 13th.
Edmonton out-attempted San Jose 281 to 252
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
San Jose Sharks
Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton 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, 3 for Edmonton. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for San Jose, 10 for Edmonton.
2025-26: 82 games for San Jose, 82 for Edmonton.
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 sampleEdmonton
Small sampleConnor McDavid has 12 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.
Connor McDavid vs San Jose · game by game
See all: Connor McDavid vs San Jose · game by game →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 28 Mar
Two goalies used against Edmonton
Edmonton crease
EDM · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 28 Mar
Scoring rates point to about 7.0 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
San Jose3.004.003.063.56
Edmonton5.674.673.443.28Goals 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.
15 on the injury lists
San Jose · injuries
Edmonton · 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.
Placed F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on injured reserve. Placed D Alec Regula on long-term injured reserve. Recalled F Josh Samanski under emergency conditions.
Placed G Matt Tomkins on waivers for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield (AHL).
Loaned D Tomas Cibulka, Fs Connor Clattenburg, Quinn Hutson, Viljami Marjala, William Nicholl and Aku Raty and G Connor Ungar to Bakersfield (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield Ds Josh Brown and Riley Stillman and F Eduards Tralmaks.
San Jose · 2026 draft
See all: San Jose · 2026 draft →Edmonton · 2026 draft
See all: Edmonton · 2026 draft →Wednesday 31 March · the full slate
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