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Predators vs Sharks Picks and Predictions, November 15
No bet on Predators at Sharks on Sunday 15 November. Our number makes San Jose a 54.4% winner against the price’s 39.6%, and our rule never bets a side the market gives under 40%.
The gap is 14.8 points toward the Sharks, nearly three times our threshold of 5. On most nights that is a bet. Here it lands on a side priced under 40%, which is where our method’s numbers have been least reliable.
Predators vs Sharks odds
DraftKings has the Nashville Predators at -170 and the San Jose Sharks at +142 (read 14 November 2026, 16:43 UTC). A book builds a margin into its prices, an extra that makes the two sides add to more than 100%. These two add to 104.3%. With the margin taken out, Nashville is 60.4% and San Jose 39.6%.
The total is 6.5, over -125 and under +105, which is 53.2% for the over and 46.8% for the under once the margin is out. On the puck line, Predators -1.5 is +142 and Sharks +1.5 is -170: 39.6% and 60.4%.
Our rule has two parts. A side is a bet when our number and the market’s differ by at least 5 points. A side the market gives under 40% is never a bet, however wide the gap.
Predators betting form
Nashville is 11-4-5 this season and 5-1-3 on the road. The Predators have won 5 of their last 5:
| Date | Result |
|---|---|
| Thursday 5 November | W 3-2 in overtime at Colorado Avalanche |
| Saturday 7 November | W 3-1 vs St. Louis Blues |
| Tuesday 10 November | W 3-0 at Los Angeles Kings |
| Wednesday 11 November | W 4-2 at Anaheim Ducks |
| Friday 13 November | W 3-2 in a shootout at Vegas Golden Knights |
They score 3.00 goals a game and allow 2.60, on 26.3 shots for and 29.7 against. The power play runs at 25.8% and the penalty kill at 89.7%. Steven Stamkos leads the team with 11 goals. Roman Josi leads in assists with 21 and in points with 23.
Juuse Saros has played 14 games, with a .921 save percentage, a 2.38 goals-against average and one shutout. Justus Annunen has played 5, at .886 and 3.13. ESPN’s injury list has one Predator: Jonathan Marchessault, day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
Sharks betting form
San Jose is 8-11-2 this season and 4-5-1 at home. The Sharks have won 1 of their last 5:
| Date | Result |
|---|---|
| Wednesday 4 November | L 7-2 at Los Angeles Kings |
| Friday 6 November | L 4-1 at Minnesota Wild |
| Saturday 7 November | L 4-3 at Dallas Stars |
| Monday 9 November | W 3-2 in a shootout vs New York Islanders |
| Wednesday 11 November | L 3-2 in a shootout vs Pittsburgh Penguins |
They score 2.43 goals a game and allow 3.43, on 28.1 shots for and 30.5 against. The power play is at 19.0% and the penalty kill at 76.0%. Macklin Celebrini leads the team in all three columns: 8 goals, 15 assists, 23 points.
Yaroslav Askarov has played 14 games in goal, at .894 and 3.12. Alex Nedeljkovic has played 7, at .895 and 3.23. ESPN lists Alexander Wennberg as day-to-day (undisclosed), and Igor Chernyshov, Quentin Musty and goalie Kyle Keyser on injured reserve with upper-body injuries. Askarov and Nedeljkovic, the two goalies who have played this season, are not on the list.
Predators vs Sharks matchup
Our method uses two halves of the 2025-26 season. The Sharks went 21-14-6 at SAP Center, a 51.2% home win rate, scoring 3.07 a game and allowing 3.46. The Predators went 17-16-7 on the road, a 57.5% road loss rate, scoring 3.0 and allowing 3.33. Neutral-site games are left out of both.
The halves the method leaves out are close to the ones it uses. San Jose went 18-21-2 on the road, a 43.9% win rate. Nashville went 20-17-3 at home, 50.0%. Neither team’s split favours it by much, and neither carried a goal surplus in any split.
The full seasons finished level on 86 points, and both teams missed the playoffs. San Jose went 39-35-8 with a goal difference of -41. Nashville went 38-34-10 at -22. The Sharks went 22-5-8 in one-goal games and won 12 of their 20 games past regulation. The Predators went 20-8-10 and won 10 of 20. San Jose lost by two goals or more in 30 of 82 games, Nashville in 26.
Nashville won two of the three meetings. The Predators won 6-3 at home on Tuesday 24 March 2026 and 6-3 in San Jose on Saturday 4 April. The Sharks won 3-2 in Nashville on Monday 13 April. Only the game in San Jose is inside our number, in both halves. The two in Nashville are in neither.
Predators vs Sharks prediction and best bet
Projected score: Nashville Predators 3.2, San Jose Sharks 3.2
Each team’s goals are the average of what it scored and what the other allowed in 2025-26 at this venue. The Sharks scored 3.07 a game at home and the Predators allowed 3.33 on the road. The Predators scored 3.0 on the road and the Sharks allowed 3.46 at home. This is a projection of goals from last season. It is not a bet.
None of this season is in either number. Nashville’s 11-4-5 start and five straight wins sit outside the method. So does San Jose’s 8-11-2.
Pick: No bet
No bet on the moneyline. Our number has the Sharks at 54.4% against 39.6% priced, a gap of 14.8 points against a threshold of 5. The Sharks are +142 at DraftKings, read 14 November 2026, 16:43 UTC. At that price the market gives them under 40%. Our method has no adjustment for the strength of the opponent, and on underdogs its number has run above what the teams then did. So the gap is not trusted there.
The number is the average of San Jose’s 51.2% home win rate and Nashville’s 57.5% road loss rate: 54.4% for the Sharks, 45.6% for the Predators.
The projected score is level, and the pick is no bet. Those answer different questions. A goal projection says how many goals each side should score. A price says what a win is worth.
What kills the bet
The Sharks become a bet when their price shortens enough to lift the market’s chance for them to 40%, with the margin out. The floor is a price of about +150 or longer. At +142 against -170 they sit at 39.6%. The gap itself holds at any Sharks price of +103 or longer, whatever Nashville’s price is. Against Nashville at -170 it holds down to -160.
For the Predators to become the bet, they would have to be +147 or longer, whatever the Sharks are priced at. Against the Sharks at +142 they never are, because at that price Nashville would be under 40%. They are -170.
Marchessault is day-to-day for Nashville. Wennberg is day-to-day for San Jose, with Chernyshov, Musty and Keyser on injured reserve. Check the lineups before you bet.
The total and the puck line
The Sharks’ games went over 6.5 in 42 of 82 last season, 51.2%. The Predators’ games went over in 35 of 82, 42.7%. San Jose’s home games averaged 6.53 goals and Nashville’s road games 6.33.
Our number puts the over at 47.0% against 53.2% priced. That is a gap of 6.3 points toward the under at +105. The method stakes the moneyline only, so this is a lean, not a bet.
On the puck line, the Predators won by two goals or more in 18 of 82 games, and the Sharks lost by two or more in 30 of 82. Our number has Nashville -1.5 covering 29.3% of the time against 39.6% priced, a gap of 10.4 points toward Sharks +1.5 at -170. That is a lean, never a second bet. No bet on this game.
Predators at Sharks, Sunday 15 November, 9:00 PM ET, SAP Center at San Jose. Prices: DraftKings via ESPN, read 14 November 2026, 16:43 UTC. Results: ESPN, 2025-26 regular season and playoffs. This season’s records, form, team and goalie figures, and injury lists: ESPN’s game page, read 14 November 2026, 16:43 UTC.