The Seattle Kraken visit the San Jose Sharks today in a rare back-to-back, home-and-home series. This is the first meeting between the two Pacific Division teams this season. The Kraken are 11-11-1 this season and in sixth place in the Pacific Division. Seattle is still considered to be in the playoff race. It’s four points out from third place in the division as of American Thanksgiving.
Seattle lost its game on Wednesday night to the Anaheim Ducks 5-2. Anaheim’s John Gibson outdueled Seattle’s Joey Daccord. For more details on that, check out our friends at Davy Jones Locker Room.
The Kraken’s top scorer is Jared McCann with 22 points in 23 games. McCann also leads the team with 9 goals. The team will be without Jordan Eberle today. He was placed on injured reserve on Nov. 26, which means he’ll miss at least a week. Vince Dunn traveled with the team to San Jose, but is questionable for today.
The Sharks practiced on Thanksgiving Day and we got an update on Barclay Goodrow. It looks like the winger will go on injured reserve. He left Wednesday night’s game after a hit by Ottawa’s Ridly Greig. Placing him on IR means that Goodrow will miss at least three games. In his absence, the team called up Ethan Cardwell. He’ll play on Friday.
San Jose Sharks lines for Nov. 29, 2024
There’s no morning skate because of the 12:30 p.m. start time. San Jose Hockey Now’s Sheng Peng reported the following lines during Thursday’s practice.
Don't see Wennberg & Kunin at practice, Granlund has taken Wennberg's place in line rushes:
— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) November 28, 2024
Eklund-Celebrini-Zetterlund
Toffoli-Granlund-W. Smith
Kostin-Sturm-Cardwell
G. Smith-Dellandrea-Grundstrom
Since it sounds like Alex Wennberg and Luke Kunin were just out due to “maintenance days” and they’ll likely play today, here’s what we think the lines will look like today. We assume that Vitek Vanecek will get the start.
Forwards
William Eklund – Macklin Celebrini – Fabian Zetterlund
Tyler Toffoli – Mikael Granlund – Will Smith
Ty Dellandrea – Alex Wennberg – Ethan Cardwell
Luke Kunin – Nico Sturm – Carl Grundstrom
Defense
Jake Walman – Cody Ceci
Mario Ferraro – Timothy Liljegren
Henry Thrun – Jan Rutta
Goaltenders
Vitek Vanecek
Mackenzie Blackwood
Seattle Kraken lines against San Jose Sharks
There’s no morning skate for the Kraken either because of the early start. We’re using the lines from Wednesday to project today’s lines.
Forwards
Jared McCann – Matty Beniers – Andre Burakovsky
Jaden Schwartz – Chandler Stephenson – Daniel Sprong
Eeli Tolvanen – Shane Wright – Oliver Bjorkstrand
Ty Kartye – Yanni Gourde – Brandon Tanev
Defense
Ryker Evans – Adam Larsson
Jamie Oleksiak – Brandon Montour
Joshua Mahura – Will Borgen
Goaltenders
Joey Daccord
Philipp Grubauer
How to watch Seattle Kraken at San Jose Sharks today
Shake off that Turkey Day hangover because today’s game starts at 12:30 p.m. PT/3:30 p.m. ET at SAP Center. Sharks fans can watch the game on NBC Sports California or listen on the Sharks SAP Center app.
Kraken fans can catch the game on KING 5 or KONG. I really need to know the story behind the call letters, so someone, please, please drop it below if you know it.
If you’re out of the area, you can catch the game on ESPN+.