Carolina Hurricanes at Winnipeg Jets: game preview
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndat
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26thThirty-one points apart last season
Carolina finished last season 2nd in the league on 113 points. Winnipeg finished 26th on 82.
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Meeting number 35
Across 34 completed games, Winnipeg lead the head-to-head 19-15-0.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 21 Nov 2025, Carolina were 2nd in the league and Winnipeg 13th. By 28 Nov 2025 it was 5th and 26th.
Carolina out-attempted Winnipeg 136 to 89
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Carolina Hurricanes
Winnipeg Jets
Carolina have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Carolina, 3 for Winnipeg. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Carolina, 10 for Winnipeg.
2025-26: 86 games for Carolina, 82 for Winnipeg.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Carolina
Small sampleWinnipeg
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 14 Oct
No appearances against Winnipeg in the last meetings.
Winnipeg crease
WPG · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 14 Oct
No appearances against Carolina in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.2 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Carolina2.753.003.612.93
Winnipeg3.002.672.823.17Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
6 on the injury lists
Carolina · injuries
Winnipeg · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Signed F Tyrel Bauer to a two-year contract.
Signed F Cole Perfetti to a five-year contract.
Signed F Viggo Björck to a three-year contract.
Carolina · 2026 draft
See all: Carolina · 2026 draft →Winnipeg · 2026 draft
See all: Winnipeg · 2026 draft →Saturday 17 October · the full slate
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