Winnipeg Jets at Colorado Avalanche: game preview
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26that
ColoradoAvalanche2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 55-16-11 · 121 pts · 1stThirty-nine points apart last season
Winnipeg finished last season 26th in the league on 82 points. Colorado finished 1st on 121, and the 2025-26 season series went WPG 2-2-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 58
Across 57 completed games, Winnipeg lead the head-to-head 29-19-9.
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 19 Dec 2025, Winnipeg were 27th in the league and Colorado 1st. By 28 Mar 2026 it was 25th and 1st.
Colorado out-attempted Winnipeg 329 to 226
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Winnipeg Jets
Colorado Avalanche
Colorado 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, 2 for Colorado. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Winnipeg, 10 for Colorado.
2025-26: 82 games for Winnipeg, 82 for Colorado.
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 sampleColorado
Small sampleMark Scheifele has 6 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 Colorado · game by game
See all: Mark Scheifele vs Colorado · game by game →Connor Hellebuyck has been the difference
Connor Hellebuyck faced 140 shots across 5 appearances against Colorado and conceded 11, a .921 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 24 Mar
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Stuart Skinner .909 (2 GP) · Clay Stevenson .938 (1 GP)
Full game logMackenzie Blackwood
See all: Mackenzie Blackwood →COL · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Mar
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
Winnipeg3.002.672.823.17
Colorado7.002.503.682.48Goals 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.
8 on the injury lists
Winnipeg · injuries
Colorado · 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.
Placed LD Keaton Middleton, LD Wyatt Aamodt, RW/LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and LW Tristen Nielsen on waivers.
Placed D Keaton Middleton, D Wyatt Aamodt, LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and G Mads Sogaard Nielsen on waivers.
Reassigned Ds Domenick Fensore, Saige Weinstein and Christian Wolanin to Colorado (AHL).
Winnipeg · 2026 draft
See all: Winnipeg · 2026 draft →Colorado · 2026 draft
See all: Colorado · 2026 draft →Saturday 27 March · the full slate
See all: Saturday 27 March · the full slate →
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