Kings vs. Sharks (Oct 3, 2026)

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Kings LAK

0-1-0

0-1-0 in Last 10

Sharks SJS

1-0-0

1-0-0 in Last 10

Preview

Kings

Sharks

Notes

preview Kings Sharks Notes

Forward Matchup

A. Laferriere

LAK RW #14

W. Smith

SJS C #2

Goals

Points

Shots on Goal

Defenseman Matchup

M. Anderson

LAK D #44

L. Cagnoni

SJS D #42

Points

Blocks

Hits

Goalie Matchup

D. Kuemper

LAK G #35

Y. Askarov

SJS G #30

Wins

.724

Save Pct

.885

8.08

Goals Against Avg

2.85

LAK

Team Stats

SJS

Goals per Game

Goals Against per Game

31.00

Shots per Game

32.00

29.00

Shots Against per Game

26.00

0.0

Power Play Pct

25.0

20.0

Penalty Kill Pct

83.3

.724

Save Pct

.885

LAK

Injuries

SJS

Jakub Dvorak

Out (Upper-body)

Quentin Musty

Out (Upper body)

Otto Salin

Out (Undisclosed)

Kyle Keyser

Out (Upper body)

Jan Jenik

Out (Undisclosed)

Adam Gaudette

Out (Upper body)

Kevin Fiala

Out (Leg)

Alex Barre-Boulet

Out (Undisclosed)

2026-27 Pacific Division

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS	DIFF
Oilers	1	0	1	3	1
Kraken	1	0	0	2	5
Golden Knights	1	0	0	2	3
Sharks	1	0	0	2	1
Canucks	1	1	0	2	-1
Ducks	0	0	0	0	0
Kings	0	1	0	0	-4
Flames	0	1	0	0	-5

LAK

Last 5

SJS

Wed, Sep 30

Thu, Oct 1

Game Info

October 3, 2026

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SAP Center at San Jose

San Jose, California

Team Leaders

J. Armia

A. Laferriere

GWG

A. Laferriere

SV%

.724

D. Kuemper

Season

Career vs SJS

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SHG	SHA	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Alex Laferriere A. Laferriere	1	0	2	2	+1	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	15:31
Cody Ceci C. Ceci	1	0	1	1	+3	0	0	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	19:24
Drew Doughty D. Doughty	1	0	1	1	-2	2	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	22:41
Erik Haula E. Haula	1	0	1	1	-1	0	0	1	3	0.0	4	12	33.3	0	0	0	0	15:26
Mikey Anderson M. Anderson	1	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	2	0.0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	19:21
Alex Turcotte A. Turcotte	1	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	1	0.0	10	12	83.3	2	0	1	0	15:35
Joel Armia J. Armia	1	1	0	1	+1	0	1	0	2	50.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	12:55
Brian Dumoulin B. Dumoulin	1	1	0	1	-1	0	0	0	2	50.0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	16:30
Trevor Moore T. Moore	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	50.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	14:56
Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	1	1	0	1	-2	0	0	0	2	50.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	20:16
Joel Edmundson J. Edmundson	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	15:34
Scott Laughton S. Laughton	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	8	13	61.5	1	1	0	1	15:07
Mats Zuccarello M. Zuccarello	1	0	0	0	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	17:59
Adrian Kempe A. Kempe	1	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	19:23
Andre Lee A. Lee	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7:56
Quinton Byfield Q. Byfield	1	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	3	0.0	14	16	87.5	0	2	4	1	18:59
Brandt Clarke B. Clarke	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	18:57
Samuel Helenius S. Helenius	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	1	5	20.0	3	0	0	0	6:59

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Darcy Kuemper D. Kuemper	1	1	0	1	0	29	21	.724	8	8.08	0	59

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Corey Perry C. Perry	81	31	28	59	+1	96	6	10	0	0	6	234	13.2	11	25	44.0	78	31	37	44	17:05
Drew Doughty D. Doughty	78	8	33	41	+4	57	3	18	0	0	1	160	5.0	0	0	0	111	102	15	65	25:48
Mats Zuccarello M. Zuccarello	34	12	23	35	+9	2	3	6	0	0	0	57	21.1	8	17	47.1	12	20	14	23	17:20
Kevin Fiala K. Fiala	35	9	19	28	+2	22	1	4	0	0	1	99	9.1	4	8	50.0	27	8	18	50	16:51
Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	21	13	10	23	+15	6	1	1	0	0	2	52	25.0	0	2	0.0	7	2	15	15	19:34
Adrian Kempe A. Kempe	36	10	11	21	+1	16	1	2	0	0	1	96	10.4	42	96	43.8	48	17	10	28	17:23
Trevor Moore T. Moore	25	5	8	13	+6	4	0	0	2	0	1	48	10.4	5	11	45.5	14	14	11	11	16:03
Cody Ceci C. Ceci	25	1	8	9	+14	6	0	0	0	0	0	30	3.3	0	0	0	39	50	11	18	19:42
Erik Gustafsson E. Gustafsson	16	1	8	9	+1	4	0	1	0	0	0	24	4.2	0	1	0.0	17	23	10	16	20:01
Brian Dumoulin B. Dumoulin	21	1	7	8	+10	2	0	0	0	1	0	27	3.7	0	0	0	28	28	13	9	19:26
Joel Armia J. Armia	19	6	1	7	+2	12	0	0	2	0	2	48	12.5	1	3	33.3	27	6	9	8	13:39
Alex Laferriere A. Laferriere	10	3	4	7	+1	7	0	0	0	0	0	18	16.7	5	14	35.7	13	6	2	3	14:45
Erik Haula E. Haula	25	3	3	6	-3	12	0	1	1	0	0	46	6.5	146	298	49.0	34	21	8	7	14:18
Scott Laughton S. Laughton	17	1	5	6	+1	12	0	1	0	0	0	19	5.3	77	160	48.1	30	11	6	9	14:42
Mikey Anderson M. Anderson	23	1	5	6	-5	10	0	0	0	0	0	29	3.4	0	0	0	24	36	10	17	21:10
Quinton Byfield Q. Byfield	15	2	4	6	-1	4	0	2	0	0	0	29	6.9	47	102	46.1	8	3	5	8	16:20
Brandt Clarke B. Clarke	8	2	4	6	+8	2	0	1	0	0	1	24	8.3	0	0	0	2	10	4	5	18:40
Joel Edmundson J. Edmundson	20	0	4	4	-4	24	0	0	0	0	0	15	0.0	0	0	0	30	22	7	14	18:45
Jan Jenik J. Jenik	4	4	0	4	+4	9	0	0	0	0	1	6	66.7	14	27	51.9	5	1	1	0	11:54
Alex Turcotte A. Turcotte	7	1	2	3	+3	2	0	0	0	0	0	7	14.3	26	48	54.2	5	0	3	5	13:11
Andre Lee A. Lee	3	0	0	0	-2	7	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	3	3	1	2	8:58
Samuel Helenius S. Helenius	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	12	33.3	6	0	0	2	9:13

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Darcy Kuemper D. Kuemper	22	21	10	5	5	635	577	.909	58	2.78	1	1254
	Anton Forsberg A. Forsberg	5	3	1	0	2	128	118	.922	10	2.49	0	241

Team Leaders

W. Smith

M. Celebrini

GWG

L. Cagnoni

SV%

.885

Y. Askarov

Season

Career vs LAK

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Macklin Celebrini M. Celebrini	1	0	3	3	+1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	7	0.0	6	12	50.0	0	1	1	1	22:57
Will Smith W. Smith	1	2	1	3	+2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	66.7	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	20:09
Luca Cagnoni L. Cagnoni	1	1	1	2	+1	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	3	33.3	0	0	0	0	3	1	2	21:17
Mason Marchment M. Marchment	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	25.0	0	1	0.0	3	0	1	1	12:44
Barclay Goodrow B. Goodrow	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	14:09
Darnell Nurse D. Nurse	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	1	2	17:07
Dmitry Orlov D. Orlov	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	1	3	0	2	17:55
Tyler Toffoli T. Toffoli	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9:24
Jacob Trouba J. Trouba	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0	3	1	0	3	22:35
Alexander Wennberg A. Wennberg	1	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	10	18	55.6	1	1	0	0	21:44
Kiefer Sherwood K. Sherwood	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	8	0	0	1	14:01
Michael Kesselring M. Kesselring	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	19:46
Nolan Allan N. Allan	1	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	20:44
Zack Ostapchuk Z. Ostapchuk	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0	0	2	0	1	11:29
Collin Graf C. Graf	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	25.0	1	1	0	0	16:48
Igor Chernyshov I. Chernyshov	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	12:13
Michael Misa M. Misa	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	5	11	45.5	1	0	0	1	11:34
Ivar Stenberg I. Stenberg	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100.0	0	0	1	0	13:35

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Yaroslav Askarov Y. Askarov	1	1	1	0	0	26	23	.885	3	2.85	0	63

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	GWG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Alexander Wennberg A. Wennberg	28	5	10	15	-3	6	2	5	0	0	33	15.2	182	402	45.3	17	22	13	9	18:19
Darnell Nurse D. Nurse	40	5	8	13	0	42	0	0	1	0	80	6.3	0	0	0	74	80	9	32	21:40
Dmitry Orlov D. Orlov	23	2	7	9	+1	12	0	0	0	0	32	6.3	0	0	0	39	19	7	17	19:54
Tyler Toffoli T. Toffoli	17	6	3	9	-8	10	4	1	0	1	50	12.0	4	10	40.0	27	3	6	7	17:15
Adam Gaudette A. Gaudette	10	5	3	8	+5	0	1	1	0	0	17	29.4	20	46	43.5	8	7	4	4	10:12
Macklin Celebrini M. Celebrini	5	3	5	8	+1	2	1	1	0	1	20	15.0	29	62	46.8	4	3	3	7	20:17
Philipp Kurashev P. Kurashev	12	2	5	7	-6	4	0	1	0	0	18	11.1	6	13	46.2	7	6	5	5	17:12
Barclay Goodrow B. Goodrow	25	3	2	5	-5	15	0	0	0	1	24	12.5	63	136	46.3	43	15	10	14	13:57
Jacob Trouba J. Trouba	28	0	4	4	-4	14	0	1	0	0	49	0.0	0	0	0	43	71	8	30	22:43
Mason Marchment M. Marchment	13	3	1	4	-2	10	2	1	0	1	25	12.0	2	5	40.0	17	4	5	10	16:32
Will Smith W. Smith	5	1	3	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	16.7	2	9	22.2	3	0	1	1	15:05
Kiefer Sherwood K. Sherwood	13	1	1	2	-3	6	0	0	0	1	14	7.1	2	6	33.3	45	3	4	3	12:18
Ty Dellandrea T. Dellandrea	10	1	1	2	-2	4	0	0	0	0	11	9.1	39	77	50.6	15	10	1	4	13:08
Collin Graf C. Graf	4	0	2	2	-5	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	1	1	100.0	3	2	0	3	14:51
Michael Kesselring M. Kesselring	5	0	1	1	-4	14	0	0	0	0	8	0.0	0	0	0	7	4	2	2	15:37
Nolan Allan N. Allan	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13:09
Alex Barre-Boulet A. Barre-Boulet	1	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	8:25
Brett Leason B. Leason	9	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	3	9	33.3	5	9	2	0	10:58
Zack Ostapchuk Z. Ostapchuk	4	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	14	30	46.7	8	6	0	1	10:48
Luca Cagnoni L. Cagnoni	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0	0	4	0	3	16:41
Sam Dickinson S. Dickinson	3	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0	2	3	0	2	14:25
Igor Chernyshov I. Chernyshov	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14:43
Michael Misa M. Misa	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0.0	2	6	33.3	0	1	0	0	10:10

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Alex Nedeljkovic A. Nedeljkovic	5	5	2	3	0	162	149	.920	13	2.66	0	294
	Yaroslav Askarov Y. Askarov	4	4	3	1	0	98	86	.878	12	2.94	0	245

San Jose hosts Los Angeles after Smith's 2-goal game

The Associated Press

Oct 2, 2026

Los Angeles Kings (0-1, in the Pacific Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (1-0, in the Pacific Division)

San Jose, California; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT

BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks host the Los Angeles Kings after Will Smith scored two goals in the Sharks' 4-3 overtime win over the Florida Panthers.

San Jose had a 39-35-8 record overall while going 10-12-4 against opponents from the Pacific Division last season. The Sharks scored 249 total goals last season (3.0 per game on 25.7 shots per game).

Los Angeles went 10-6-10 in Pacific Division games and had a 35-27-20 record overall last season. The Kings scored 220 total goals last season (38 power-play goals and seven shorthanded goals).

INJURIES: Sharks: Alex Barre-Boulet: out (undisclosed), Kyle Keyser: out (upper body), Adam Gaudette: out (upper body), Quentin Musty: out (upper body).

Kings: Jakub Dvorak: out (upper-body), Kevin Fiala: out (leg), Jan Jenik: out (undisclosed), Otto Salin: out (undisclosed).

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

Kings LAK

Sharks SJS

Forward Matchup

Defenseman Matchup

Goalie Matchup

Team Stats

Injuries

2026-27 Pacific Division

Last 5

Game Info

San Jose hosts Los Angeles after Smith's 2-goal game

Players Mentioned

Kevin Fiala

Alex Barre-Boulet

Adam Gaudette

Kyle Keyser

Jan Jenik

Will Smith