Winnipeg Jets at Seattle Kraken: game preview
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26that
SeattleKraken2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 34-37-11 · 79 pts · 27thThree points apart last season
Winnipeg finished last season 26th in the league on 82 points. Seattle finished 27th on 79.
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Meeting number 16
Across 15 completed games, Winnipeg lead the head-to-head 11-4-0.
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 23 Oct 2025, Winnipeg were 8th in the league and Seattle 12th. By 6 Apr 2026 it was 24th and 28th.
Winnipeg out-attempted Seattle 178 to 157
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Winnipeg Jets
Seattle Kraken
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 Seattle. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Winnipeg, 10 for Seattle.
2025-26: 82 games for Winnipeg, 82 for Seattle.
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 31 Mar
No appearances against Seattle in the last meetings.
Seattle crease
SEA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 31 Mar
No appearances against Winnipeg in the last meetings.
Scoring 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
Seattle3.752.752.763.21Goals 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
Winnipeg · injuries
Seattle · 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.
Activated RW/C Mackie Samoskevich from injured reserve. Placed RW Jacob Melanson on injured reserve.
Placed C Jake O'Brien and RW Mackie Samoskevich on injured reserve.
Placed F Jon-Randall Avon, F John Hayden, F Logan Morrison and G Victor Ostman on waivers.
Winnipeg · 2026 draft
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