San Jose Sharks at Detroit Red Wings: game preview
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24that
DetroitRed Wings2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 41-31-10 · 92 pts · 16thSix points apart last season
San Jose finished last season 24th in the league on 86 points. Detroit finished 16th on 92.
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, San Jose were 30th in the league and Detroit 6th. By 16 Jan 2026 it was 20th and 5th.
Detroit out-attempted San Jose 136 to 96
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
San Jose Sharks
Detroit Red Wings
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 San Jose, 3 for Detroit. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for San Jose, 10 for Detroit.
2025-26: 82 games for San Jose, 82 for Detroit.
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 14 Oct
No appearances against Detroit in the last meetings.
Detroit crease
DET · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 14 Oct
No appearances against San Jose 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
San Jose3.004.003.063.56
Detroit2.332.672.943.15Goals 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
San Jose · injuries
Detroit · 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 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.
San Jose · 2026 draft
See all: San Jose · 2026 draft →Detroit · 2026 draft
See all: Detroit · 2026 draft →Saturday 17 October · the full slate
See all: Saturday 17 October · the full slate →
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