The Florida Panthers visit the San Jose Sharks on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 10 p.m. ET at SAP Center, the Sharks’ season opener and Florida’s second game of the year, a late night start that puts Macklin Celebrini’s Sharks against a Florida roster led by Aleksander Barkov, Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Reinhart and Sergei Bobrovsky. It is a regional broadcast with no national TV window.
Odds
Away -1.5 | total 7.5
| Sportsbook | Away spread | Home spread | Total | Away ML | Home ML |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DraftKings | -1.5 (+950) | +1.5 (-1950) | 7.5 (+1800) | -115 | -115 |
| Polymarket | -1.5 (+199900) | +1.5 (-199900) | 7.5 (+199900) | +199900 | -199900 |
| Caesars | -1.5 (+165) | +1.5 (-205) | 7.5 (+350) | -137 | +109 |
| BetMGM | -1.5 (+1050) | +1.5 (-5000) | 7.5 (+525) | -135 | +105 |
| Fanatics | +1.5 (-4000) | -1.5 (+1300) | 7.5 (+575) | -130 | +100 |
| Kalshi | -3.5 (+4900) | +3.5 (-4900) | 11.5 (+9900) | +9900 | -19900 |
| FanDuel | +1.5 (+1000) | -1.5 (+1000) | 7.5 (+700) | -102 | -125 |
| BetRivers | -1.5 (+155) | +1.5 (-200) | 6.5 (-107) | -157 | +130 |
Lines from BALLDONTLIE and refreshed automatically. Numbers move, so confirm at your sportsbook before betting.
Start Time and How to Watch
| Date | Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026 |
| Time | 10 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PT |
| TV | Regional networks in each market |
| Streaming | ESPN+ (out of market) |
| Arena | SAP Center, San Jose |
The Players to Watch
Celebrini enters his third season as the face of the Sharks’ rebuild, and this is the first look at him against a Florida team that has been the Eastern Conference standard for three years. Stats pages for the headliners on both sides are below, with game logs that fill in minutes after the final.
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