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The Los Angeles Kings visit the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center at San Jose on Saturday, October 3, 2026, with puck drop set for 10:00\u202fPM EDT.<\/p>\n
Matchup: Los Angeles Kings (0-1-0, 0 points in 2026-27) at San Jose Sharks (1-0-0, 2 points in 2026-27)<\/p>\n
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026<\/p>\n
Puck drop: 10:00\u202fPM EDT (7:00\u202fPM PDT local)<\/p>\n
Venue: SAP Center at San Jose<\/p>\n
How to watch: SJS: NBCSCA \u00b7 LAK: ABTV <\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings News & Notes<\/p>\n
Los Angeles enters the season under its 29th head coach in franchise history. Peter Laviolette was hired in June after the Kings fired Jim Hiller during the season and finished the year with D.J. Smith as interim. Laviolette won the Stanley Cup with Carolina in 2026 and has reached three Cup Finals, also with Philadelphia and Nashville. He brings an 846-562-161 career record over 1,594 games, plus 170 playoff games. It is also the first Kings season without Anze Kopitar on the ice. <\/p>\n
The Kings moved early in free agency on July 1, signing forward Erik Haula to a two-year deal at a $3.6 million cap hit and forward Mats Zuccarello to a one-year contract worth $1 million plus bonuses, along with defenseman Erik Gustafsson. Haula had 38 points in 81 games with Nashville last season; Zuccarello recorded 54 points in 59 games. <\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks News & Notes<\/p>\n
San Jose opened the 2026-27 season on Oct. 1 at home against Florida, the start of the franchise\u2019s first 84-game schedule. The Sharks went 39-35-8 for 86 points last season, fifth in the Pacific Division and four points short of the second Western Conference wild card, an improvement of 19 wins and 34 points over the prior year. The offseason was spent reshaping the blue line, with Jacob Trouba signing a four-year, $33 million deal and Darnell Nurse arriving from Edmonton for Shakir Mukhamadullin and prospect Zachary Sharp. <\/p>\n
Mason Marchment was the headline forward addition, signing for five years and $33.75 million after 45 points in 68 games with Seattle and Columbus. Michael Kesselring came over from Buffalo, while draft picks Michael Misa and Ivar Stenberg signed three-year deals. Macklin Celebrini was named captain on Sept. 25, receiving the \u2018C\u2019 from former captain Joe Thornton. The Sharks also placed goaltender Eric Comrie and forward Jimmy Huntington on waivers that day for assignment to AHL San Jose, following earlier waiver moves involving Ethan Cardwell, Tye Felhaber and Libor Hajek. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: Artemi Panarin \u2013 Quinton Byfield \u2013 Adrian Kempe<\/p>\n
Line 2: Mats Zuccarello \u2013 Alex Turcotte \u2013 Alex Laferriere<\/p>\n
Line 3: Trevor Moore \u2013 Erik Haula \u2013 Scott Laughton<\/p>\n
Line 4: Andre Lee \u2013 Samuel Helenius \u2013 Joel Armia<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Brian Dumoulin \u2013 Drew Doughty<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Joel Edmundson \u2013 Brandt Clarke<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Mikey Anderson \u2013 Cody Ceci<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Darcy Kuemper \u2013 Anton Forsberg<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Mats Zuccarello \u2013 Quinton Byfield \u2013 Adrian Kempe \u2013 Artemi Panarin \u2013 Brandt Clarke<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: Alex Turcotte \u2013 Erik Haula \u2013 Joel Armia \u2013 Drew Doughty \u2013 Alex Laferriere<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Erik Haula \u2013 Joel Armia \u2013 Mikey Anderson \u2013 Drew Doughty<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Scott Laughton \u2013 Trevor Moore \u2013 Joel Edmundson \u2013 Cody Ceci<\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: Mason Marchment \u2013 Macklin Celebrini \u2013 Will Smith<\/p>\n
Line 2: Ivar Stenberg \u2013 Alexander Wennberg \u2013 Collin Graf<\/p>\n
Line 3: Igor Chernyshov \u2013 Michael Misa \u2013 Tyler Toffoli<\/p>\n
Line 4: Barclay Goodrow \u2013 Zack Ostapchuk \u2013 Kiefer Sherwood<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Darnell Nurse \u2013 Michael Kesselring<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Nolan Allan \u2013 Jacob Trouba<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Dmitry Orlov \u2013 Luca Cagnoni<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Yaroslav Askarov \u2013 Alex Nedeljkovic<\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Igor Chernyshov \u2013 Alexander Wennberg \u2013 Will Smith \u2013 Macklin Celebrini \u2013 Luca Cagnoni<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: Mason Marchment \u2013 Michael Misa \u2013 Tyler Toffoli \u2013 Dmitry Orlov \u2013 Ivar Stenberg<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Alexander Wennberg \u2013 Collin Graf \u2013 Darnell Nurse \u2013 Jacob Trouba<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Barclay Goodrow \u2013 Kiefer Sherwood \u2013 Nolan Allan \u2013 Dmitry Orlov<\/p>\n
Players To Watch<\/p>\n
Erik Haula \u2014 Los Angeles Kings<\/p>\n
Haula put up an assist on three shots in 15:26 last time out, and the underlying work backs it up: Box Score Junkie has him at 56.7% Corsi-for and 65.0 shot attempts for per 60 through the 2026-27 season to date. His 65.0% Fenwick is the sort of territorial edge that eventually turns into points.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini \u2014 San Jose Sharks<\/p>\n
Celebrini fired seven shots and set up three goals in 22:57 last time out, the kind of volume night that makes shots-on-goal props worth a look. With San Jose\u2019s blue line struggling to tilt the ice \u2014 Box Score Junkie pegs Jacob Trouba at 40.4% Corsi-for this season \u2014 Celebrini is carrying the offence.<\/p>\n
Injury Report<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings<\/p>\n
Otto Salin (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Undisclosed, expected back Tuesday, October 6<\/p>\n
Jakub Dvorak (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Tuesday, October 6<\/p>\n
Jan Jenik (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Undisclosed, expected back Tuesday, October 6<\/p>\n
Kevin Fiala (LW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Lower Leg, expected back Saturday, October 3<\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks<\/p>\n
Adam Gaudette (RW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Saturday, October 10<\/p>\n
Alex Barre-Boulet (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Undisclosed, expected back Monday, October 5<\/p>\n
Quentin Musty (LW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Tuesday, December 1<\/p>\n
Cam Lund (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Monday, October 19<\/p>\n
Kyle Keyser (G) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Tuesday, December 1<\/p>\n
Patrick Giles (RW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Saturday, October 3<\/p>\n
Next Up<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings: host the Florida Panthers on Tuesday, October 6.<\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks: visit the Dallas Stars on Monday, October 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Godofredo A. Vasquez The Los Angeles Kings visit the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center at San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[188834,90987,112223,401,2098,75543,10370,2101,1706,1035,55945,189483,66125,3259,404,16029,88,90,89,98,188837],"class_list":["post-484143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-27-nhl-regular-season","tag-darnell-nurse","tag-erik-haula","tag-hockey","tag-injury-report","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-jacob-trouba","tag-line-combinations","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-mason-marchment","tag-mats-zuccarello","tag-michael-kesselring","tag-michael-misa","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sap-center-at-san-jose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}