Winnipeg Jets at Edmonton Oilers: game preview
WinnipegJets2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 35-35-12 · 82 pts · 26that
EdmontonOilers2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 41-30-11 · 93 pts · 14thEleven points apart last season
Winnipeg finished last season 26th in the league on 82 points. Edmonton finished 14th on 93.
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Meeting number 51
Across 50 completed games, Winnipeg lead the head-to-head 25-22-3.
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 6 Dec 2025, Winnipeg were 24th in the league and Edmonton 19th. By 8 Jan 2026 it was 32nd and 14th.
Winnipeg out-attempted Edmonton 168 to 144
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Winnipeg Jets
Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton 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, 3 for Edmonton. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Winnipeg, 10 for Edmonton.
2025-26: 82 games for Winnipeg, 82 for Edmonton.
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 sampleEdmonton
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 14 Jan
No appearances against Edmonton in the last meetings.
Edmonton crease
EDM · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 14 Jan
No appearances against Winnipeg in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.6 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
Edmonton5.674.673.443.28Goals 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.
13 on the injury lists
Winnipeg · injuries
Edmonton · 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 F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on injured reserve. Placed D Alec Regula on long-term injured reserve. Recalled F Josh Samanski under emergency conditions.
Placed G Matt Tomkins on waivers for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield (AHL).
Loaned D Tomas Cibulka, Fs Connor Clattenburg, Quinn Hutson, Viljami Marjala, William Nicholl and Aku Raty and G Connor Ungar to Bakersfield (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield Ds Josh Brown and Riley Stillman and F Eduards Tralmaks.
Winnipeg · 2026 draft
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