Calgary Flames at Winnipeg Jets: game preview
CalgaryFlames2026-27: 0-3-0 · 0 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 29that
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26thFive points apart last season
Calgary finished last season 29th in the league on 77 points. Winnipeg finished 26th on 82.
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Meeting number 49
Across 48 completed games, Winnipeg lead the head-to-head 25-21-2.
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 20 Oct 2025, Calgary were 32nd in the league and Winnipeg 3rd. By 15 Nov 2025 it was 32nd and 9th.
Calgary out-attempted Winnipeg 198 to 169
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Calgary Flames
Winnipeg Jets
Winnipeg 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 Calgary, 3 for Winnipeg. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Calgary, 10 for Winnipeg.
2025-26: 82 games for Calgary, 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
Calgary
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.
Calgary crease
CGY · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 30 Dec
No appearances against Winnipeg in the last meetings.
Winnipeg crease
WPG · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 30 Dec
No appearances against Calgary in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 5.9 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
Calgary1.005.332.593.16
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.
5 on the injury lists
Calgary · injuries
Winnipeg · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed D Brayden Pachal and C Connor Zary on waivers.
Waived F Alex Nylander.
Assigned Fs Andrew Basha, Will Dineen and Tyson Gross, Ds Hunter Brzustewicz and Axel Hurtig and G Arsenii Sergeev to Calgary (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Calgary Fs Dryden Hunt, Ben Jones, Rory Kerins, Sam Morton and William Stromgren and Ds Michael Benning, Andreas Englund and Jake Livingstone.
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.
Calgary · 2026 draft
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