Winnipeg Jets at Minnesota Wild: game preview
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26that
MinnesotaWild2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 46-24-12 · 104 pts · 7thTwenty-two points apart last season
Winnipeg finished last season 26th in the league on 82 points. Minnesota finished 7th on 104, and the 2025-26 season series went WPG 2-1-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 59
Across 58 completed games, Winnipeg lead the head-to-head 32-21-5.
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 28 Oct 2025, Winnipeg were 7th in the league and Minnesota 29th. By 15 Jan 2026 it was 31st and 4th.
Minnesota out-attempted Winnipeg 290 to 280
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Winnipeg Jets
Minnesota Wild
Minnesota 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: 3 games for Winnipeg, 3 for Minnesota. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Winnipeg, 10 for Minnesota.
2025-26: 82 games for Winnipeg, 82 for Minnesota.
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
Winnipeg
Small sampleMinnesota
Small sampleMark Scheifele has 8 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Mark Scheifele vs Minnesota · game by game
See all: Mark Scheifele vs Minnesota · game by game →Connor Hellebuyck has been the difference
Connor Hellebuyck faced 107 shots across 4 appearances against Minnesota and conceded 9, a .916 save percentage against a season figure of .895. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Connor Hellebuyck
See all: Connor Hellebuyck →WPG · 23-23-11 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 23 Dec
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Stuart Skinner .909 (2 GP) · Clay Stevenson .938 (1 GP)
Full game logJesper Wallstedt
See all: Jesper Wallstedt →MIN · 2-0-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 23 Dec
Scoring rates point to about 6.0 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
Winnipeg3.002.672.823.17
Minnesota3.001.673.322.93Goals 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.
7 on the injury lists
Winnipeg · injuries
Minnesota · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Iowa (AHL) Ds Matt Kiersted, Carson Lambos, and Roman Schmidt and Fs Caedan Bankier, Dylan Gambrell, Justin Kirkland, Tyler Pitlick, and Mason Shaw. Assigned Ds Ben Dexheimer and Viking Gustafsson Nyberg and Fs Jagger Joshua, Hunter Haight, Riley Heidt, Rasmus Kumpulainen, and Rieger Lorenz to Iowa.
Signed G Filip Ruzicka to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Signed D Filip Ruzicka to a three-year contract.
Winnipeg · 2026 draft
See all: Winnipeg · 2026 draft →Minnesota · 2026 draft
See all: Minnesota · 2026 draft →Saturday 26 December · the full slate
See all: Saturday 26 December · the full slate →
TBLat
FLA7:00 PM ET
NYIat
BOS7:00 PM ET
NJDat
BUF7:00 PM ET
TORat
MTL7:00 PM ET
PITat
CAR7:00 PM ET
DETat
NSH7:00 PM ETWPGatMINThis game8:00 PM ET
CBJat
WSH10:00 PM ET
VANat
CGY10:00 PM ET
UTAat
LAK10:00 PM ET
VGKat
SJSUpdated after every final