Winnipeg Jets at Columbus Blue Jackets: game preview
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26that
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17thTen points apart last season
Winnipeg finished last season 26th in the league on 82 points. Columbus finished 17th on 92.
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Meeting number 26
Across 25 completed games, Winnipeg lead the head-to-head 15-9-1.
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 18 Nov 2025, Winnipeg were 7th in the league and Columbus 19th. By 4 Apr 2026 it was 24th and 14th.
Winnipeg out-attempted Columbus 120 to 104
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Winnipeg Jets
Columbus Blue Jackets
Columbus 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 Columbus. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Winnipeg, 10 for Columbus.
2025-26: 82 games for Winnipeg, 82 for Columbus.
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
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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.
Winnipeg crease
WPG · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 25 Jan
No appearances against Columbus in the last meetings.
Columbus crease
CBJ · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 25 Jan
No appearances against Winnipeg in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.1 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
Columbus3.503.503.093.09Goals 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.
4 on the injury lists
Winnipeg · injuries
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
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 LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
Winnipeg · 2026 draft
See all: Winnipeg · 2026 draft →Columbus · 2026 draft
See all: Columbus · 2026 draft →Thursday 28 January · the full slate
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