San Jose Sharks (8-7-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Seattle Kraken (8-4-5, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Seattle; Saturday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Kraken host the San Jose Sharks after Jordan Eberle scored two goals in the Kraken\u2019s 5-3 win against the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n
Seattle has an 8-4-5 record overall and a 3-1-0 record in Pacific Division play. The Kraken are 7-0-3 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
San Jose is 8-7-3 overall with a 1-2-2 record against the Pacific Division. The Sharks have a -3 scoring differential, with 55 total goals scored and 58 allowed.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the second time these teams square off this season. The Sharks won 6-1 in the last meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jaden Schwartz has five goals and seven assists for the Kraken. Eberle has six goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini has 10 goals and 16 assists for the Sharks. Will Smith has scored five goals with four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kraken: 5-2-3, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.6 assists, 3.1 penalties and seven penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sharks: 7-2-1, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.3 assists, 3.3 penalties and 6.6 penalty minutes while giving up two goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kraken: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sharks: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (8-7-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Seattle Kraken (8-4-5, in the Pacific Division) Seattle; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,33554,33552,404,1489,88,90,89,98,7853,2071,33553,127,3578],"class_list":["post-53107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-jaden-schwartz","tag-jordan-eberle","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattle-redhawks","tag-sports","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53107","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=53107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}