Seattle Kraken Odds

Seattle Kraken Odds & Betting Guide: 2026-27 Season

Where the Kraken Stand

Seattle finished 2025-26 at 34-37-11 for 79 points, sixth in the Pacific and 11 points behind the Los Angeles Kings for the second Western wild card. The shape of that season tells bettors more than the final line does. The Kraken sat 27-20-9 and third in the division at the break, then went 7-17-2 the rest of the way. Books priced the collapse into this year's numbers, which is why Seattle opens as one of the longest shots on the board. You can track where the market has Seattle each night on the live NHL odds board.

Lane Lambert enters year two behind the bench, and Jason Botterill runs his second offseason as general manager. Botterill kept the retool narrow. He re-signed Bobby McMann to a six-year deal after acquiring him from Toronto at the 2026 deadline, traded a first and a conditional second to Florida for Mackie Samoskevich, and added Curtis Douglas in free agency. On the other side, Jaden Schwartz signed in Colorado, Jamie Oleksiak and Eeli Tolvanen left in free agency, and Seattle traded Tye Kartye to the Rangers. That is a thinner forward group than last October's, with more of the scoring load pushed onto Matty Beniers, Shane Wright and Berkly Catton.

Goaltending is the input that will decide whether the Kraken beat their number. Joey Daccord appeared in 47 games last season and posted a 3.03 goals-against average with a .896 save percentage, both career worsts. Philipp Grubauer, nominally the backup, finished with a 2.65 GAA and a .909 save percentage across 32 appearances. Lambert has called Daccord the starter, but those splits run the wrong way for a clean 1A/1B designation, and Nikke Kokko sits in Coachella Valley as the third option.

The underlying numbers argue against a leap. Seattle scored 224 goals, 28th in the league, and opponents outshot them 2,415 to 2,099 across the season. The Kraken still went 26-23-6 in games where the other team controlled the shot count, which is goaltending and shot quality covering for a possession deficit rather than a repeatable skill. Bettors who treat last year's 79 points as the baseline should remember the roster that produced it has lost more than it added.

Western Conference and Pacific Division Context

The Pacific sent Vegas (95 points), Edmonton (93) and Anaheim (92) to the playoffs last spring, with the Kings sneaking in at 90 as a wild card. Seattle finished 16 points behind that group. Vegas Golden Knights odds still lead the division market, with Edmonton Oilers odds close behind and Anaheim Ducks odds shortening after their run to the second round.

The live question for Seattle bettors is the third playoff spot and the wild-card line, not the division title. Books moved the San Jose Sharks point total up more than 20 points this summer on the strength of their young core, which puts another body between the Kraken and the postseason. The Los Angeles Kings collected 20 overtime and shootout losses last season, an unusually high loser-point haul that tends to regress, so their 90 points overstated them. Below Seattle, Calgary Flames odds and Vancouver Canucks odds price two rebuilding clubs, and Vancouver's minus-100 goal differential makes the Kraken a live favorite in most of those meetings.

Division games carry outsized weight this season. Seattle plays each Pacific rival four times, 28 of 84 games, and the playoff bracket seeds the first two rounds by division. A four-point swing against Calgary or Vancouver moves the standings as much as a win over a conference heavyweight does.

Kraken 2026-27 Point Total

The season point total is the NHL's version of a win total, and Seattle's opened at 81.5. Two points of that is schedule arithmetic rather than opinion: 2026-27 is the first 84-game season since 1993-94, so every team gets two extra chances at points. A 81.5 line on 84 games is a weaker projection than the 78.5 Seattle closed at over 82 games last year, even though the number went up. Compare per-game rates, not raw totals, when you set the 2025-26 season against this one.

The Kraken angle: Seattle played 29 one-goal games last season and went 13-5-11 in them. Eleven of those were overtime or shootout losses, which means the loser point propped up a team that lost the majority of its close games. Shootout results are close to random year over year, and a club that banks that many loser points usually sees the split move. The Kraken also went 3-30-3 when trailing after two periods and 21-2-1 when leading, so the result hinged on which side scored first far more than most teams. Opponents outscored Seattle 73 to 57 in first periods.

Kraken 2026-27 Futures Odds

Books list Seattle at +20000 or longer to win the Stanley Cup, with a spread across operators wide enough that shopping genuinely matters. Make-the-playoffs prices sit near +500, with the miss around -800, and the Pacific Division market has the Kraken in the +4500 range behind Vegas, Edmonton, Anaheim and the Kings. The rest of the futures board, including conference and award markets, sits on the NHL futures page.

Seattle carries no live award candidate worth a ticket. Catton exceeded the Calder's 25-game threshold last season and is no longer rookie-eligible. On the Vezina side, a goalie splitting starts in a tandem rarely accumulates the workload voters reward, and both Daccord and Grubauer are in exactly that position.

Betting Kraken Puck Lines

The NHL's version of the point spread is the puck line. Books set it at 1.5 goals in nearly every game and adjust the price instead of the number.

• Kraken -1.5 (+165) / Canucks +1.5 (-200)
  

Kraken covers by winning by two or more goals. Canucks covers by winning outright or losing by one. The half-goal means neither side can push.

So many NHL games finish within one goal that the favorite usually pays plus money on the puck line, while the underdog costs a steep price. A winning $100 bet on Kraken -1.5 at +165 returns $265: the $100 stake plus $165 in profit. Backing Canucks +1.5 at -200 means risking $200 to win $100.

At most books, a game decided in overtime or a shootout goes down as a one-goal win, so the +1.5 side cashes any time the game gets past regulation. Late in close games, the trailing team pulls its goalie for an extra skater, and an empty-net goal is often what turns a one-goal win into a puck line cover. Seattle's habit of grinding out one-goal results is worth checking against the puck line standings before laying -1.5.

Betting Kraken Totals

Books set a total for the combined goals both teams score, then let bettors take a side.

Say books post Kraken vs. Ducks at 6.5, with the over at +105 and the under at -125. The over cashes if the two teams combine for seven or more goals. The under cashes at six or fewer. A half-goal total cannot push. When books post a whole number like 6, a six-goal game pushes and both sides get their stake back.

NHL totals sit in a narrow band, mostly 5.5 to 6.5, so books move the juice far more often than the number. Overtime goals count toward the total. Most books also add one goal to the winner's score for a shootout win, so a 3-3 game decided in a shootout grades as seven. Check the book's rules.

The starting goalies move NHL totals more than anything else. Books often wait for the confirmed starters before settling the price, and a backup in net can shift both the number and the juice.

Why Kraken totals move: Seattle plays 13 back-to-backs this season, and seven of the remaining pairs are road-road, including Colorado into Vegas in January, Utah into Los Angeles in February and Toronto into Montreal in March. Lambert has rotated goalies on those nights, and the second-night price reflects it once the morning skate confirms who starts. Two more inputs sit on the schedule: Seattle and Carolina play the Global Series in Helsinki on November 12 and 14, and three home games start in the early afternoon local time, including Martin Luther King Day against Columbus and Presidents' Day against Pittsburgh. Our NHL picks cover each night's totals once lineups land.

Betting the Kraken Moneyline

The moneyline asks one question: who wins. At most books it includes overtime and the shootout.

• Kraken -160 / Flames +135
  

Minus marks the favorite, plus the underdog. At -160 you risk $160 to win $100. At +135 you risk $100 to win $135.

Converting to implied probability makes the pricing clearer. The -160 favorite implies 61.5%. The +135 underdog implies 42.6%. Those sum to 104.1%, not 100%. The extra 4.1 points are the book's margin, and the book collects it whichever side wins.

One thing worth getting straight: a short price is not automatically a bad bet. Bettors call heavy favorites bad value out of habit, but if the Kraken win this matchup 65% of the time, -160 is a price worth taking, because it only implies 61.5%. Value is the gap between real probability and priced probability. The size of the number tells you nothing on its own.

When one side carries heavier juice than the other, that tells you where money is landing, not which side is correct. If the Kraken drift from -160 to -185, bettors backed the Kraken and the book adjusted its exposure. The team did not become more likely to win.

Books also post a regulation line, sometimes called the three-way or 60-minute line. It adds a third outcome, a tie after regulation, so both teams pay longer prices than on the standard moneyline. A bet on the Kraken in regulation loses if the game goes to overtime, even if the Kraken win it there. Grading differs by book, and the overtime and shootout betting rules page covers how each one handles it. If you want the math on any of these conversions, the moneyline explained walkthrough covers it.

Seattle's schedule hands the moneyline market two long road stretches to price: a six-game trip from January 19 to 28 that runs Los Angeles, Buffalo, the Islanders, the Rangers, New Jersey and Minnesota, and a five-game Eastern swing in early March through Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Boston. The Kraken went 15-20-6 away from Climate Pledge Arena last season.

Kraken Player Props

A player prop prices one player's production in one game.

• Matty Beniers shots on goal: 3.5 (over -120, under +100)
  

The over needs four shots on goal. The under needs three or fewer.

Anytime goal scorer is the other high-volume NHL prop. At +180, Beniers scoring implies 35.7%. Overtime goals count at most books; shootout goals do not.

NHL props follow ice time and deployment. A player promoted to the top line or the first power-play unit gets more shifts and more shooting chances, and books adjust when line combinations change. Goalie save props depend on the opponent's shot volume and on the goalie actually starting. Check the confirmed starter and the injury report before betting a prop, and check the book's rules for a player who does not play, because they differ between books.

Seattle's shot deficit cuts both ways on the prop board. Skater shot overs are harder to hit on a team that attempts fewer, while Daccord and Grubauer face volume most nights, which pushes goalie save totals up. The full NHL player props board updates as lineups confirm.

Kraken Public Betting Splits

Splits break ticket count out from money handled, and the gap is the useful part. If 70% of tickets sit on the over but only 45% of the dollars do, the larger bets are on the under. That divergence is exactly the question the uneven juice in the totals section raises, and the ticket and money percentages answer it game by game.

Seattle is not a brand-premium team, which changes how to read its splits. The Kraken draw thin recreational ticket volume on their own, so the gap tends to open when the opponent is one of the public sides. In home games against Edmonton, Vegas and Toronto, ticket share often lands heavily on the visitor while money share sits closer to even, and that is the configuration worth checking before you take the Kraken as a home underdog.

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