Chicago Blackhawks at Winnipeg Jets: game preview
ChicagoBlackhawks2026-27: 1-3-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 29-39-14 · 72 pts · 31stat
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26thTen points apart last season
Chicago finished last season 31st in the league on 72 points. Winnipeg finished 26th on 82, and the 2025-26 season series went WPG 3-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 53
Across 52 completed games, Winnipeg lead the head-to-head 33-16-3.
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 30 Oct 2025, Chicago were 18th in the league and Winnipeg 2nd. By 31 Mar 2026 it was 31st and 24th.
Winnipeg out-attempted Chicago 304 to 241
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Chicago Blackhawks
Winnipeg Jets
Chicago and Winnipeg are level on 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 Chicago, 3 for Winnipeg. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Chicago, 10 for Winnipeg.
2025-26: 82 games for Chicago, 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
Chicago
Small sampleWinnipeg
Small sampleMark Scheifele has 9 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 Chicago · game by game
See all: Mark Scheifele vs Chicago · game by game →Spencer Knight has started most of these meetings
Spencer Knight played 5 of the last 5 meetings with Winnipeg, with a .895 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Spencer Knight
See all: Spencer Knight →CHI · 1-2-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Arvid Soderblom .813 (1 GP)
Full game logConnor Hellebuyck
See all: Connor Hellebuyck →WPG · 23-23-11 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 27 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Stuart Skinner .909 (2 GP) · Clay Stevenson .938 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring 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
Chicago2.254.252.603.35
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.
7 on the injury lists
Chicago · injuries
Winnipeg · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Assigned D Charles Alexis Legault to Chicago (AHL).
Agreed to terms with F Oliver Moore on a five-year contract extension. Loaned Fs Jiri felcman, Martin Misiak and Marek Vanacker and D Dylan Anhorn to Rockford (AHL). Assigned F Brett Seney to Rockford.
Placed D Derrick Pouliot 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.
Chicago · 2026 draft
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