Winnipeg Jets at Montréal Canadiens: game preview
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26that
MontréalCanadiens2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 48-24-10 · 106 pts · 6thTwenty-four points apart last season
Winnipeg finished last season 26th in the league on 82 points. Montréal finished 6th on 106.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 45
Across 44 completed games, Montréal lead the head-to-head 26-13-5.
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 3 Dec 2025, Winnipeg were 24th in the league and Montréal 12th. By 4 Feb 2026 it was 30th and 9th.
Winnipeg out-attempted Montréal 142 to 125
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Winnipeg Jets
Montréal Canadiens
Winnipeg and Montréal 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: 3 games for Winnipeg, 3 for Montréal. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Winnipeg, 10 for Montréal.
2025-26: 82 games for Winnipeg, 82 for Montréal.
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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Small sampleMontréal
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.
Winnipeg crease
WPG · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 31 Oct
No appearances against Montréal in the last meetings.
Montréal crease
MTL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 31 Oct
No appearances against Winnipeg in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 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
Montréal4.004.673.453.12Goals 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.
9 on the injury lists
Winnipeg · injuries
Montréal · 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 D Reilly Walsh, D Maksymilian Szuber, D Ethan Samson, C Sam Poulin, RW Sasha Pastujov, C Hunter McKown, G Kaapo Kähkönen, LW Brett Berard, and RW Alex Belzile on waivers for the purpose of loaning them to Laval (AHL).
Signed F Chris Kreider to a one-year contract.
Loaned F Vinzenz Rohrer to EV Zug (Switzerland).
Winnipeg · 2026 draft
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