Winnipeg Jets at Boston Bruins: game preview
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26that
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8thEighteen points apart last season
Winnipeg finished last season 26th in the league on 82 points. Boston finished 8th on 100, and the 2025-26 season series went BOS 2-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 33
Across 32 completed games, Boston lead the head-to-head 19-9-3.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 11 Dec 2025, Winnipeg were 28th in the league and Boston 10th. By 2 Oct it was 20th and 1st.
Boston out-attempted Winnipeg 304 to 297
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Winnipeg Jets
Boston Bruins
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 Winnipeg, 4 for Boston. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Winnipeg, 10 for Boston.
2025-26: 82 games for Winnipeg, 82 for Boston.
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 sampleBoston
Small sampleDavid Pastrnak has 10 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.
David Pastrnak vs Winnipeg · game by game
See all: David Pastrnak vs Winnipeg · game by game →Connor Hellebuyck has started most of these meetings
Connor Hellebuyck played 3 of the last 5 meetings with Boston, with a .886 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Connor Hellebuyck
See all: Connor Hellebuyck →WPG · 23-23-11 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 22 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Stuart Skinner .909 (2 GP) · Clay Stevenson .938 (1 GP)
Full game logJeremy Swayman
See all: Jeremy Swayman →BOS · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 22 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Michael DiPietro .897 (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
Winnipeg3.002.672.823.17
Boston2.252.753.323.05Goals 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
Winnipeg · injuries
Boston · 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.
Reinstated C Matthew Poitras from injured reserve.
Placed RW Michael Eyssimont on waivers.
Placed D Henri Jokiharju on waivers. Placed C Matthew Poitras on injured reserve.
Winnipeg · 2026 draft
See all: Winnipeg · 2026 draft →Boston · 2026 draft
See all: Boston · 2026 draft →Wednesday 25 November · the full slate
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