With their win over the Chicago Blackhawks, the True North franchise pulled within a point of the Western Conference’s final wildcard spot while moving up the standings to sit with the National Hockey League’s 23rd best record. Yet, the races are so tight at this point of time, that situation changed with last night’s slate of games.
In a contest that the Winnipeg Jets would have been very interested in since the clubs involved are just ahead and behind them in the wildcard race, the Los ...
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The Winnipeg Jets immediately flew to Chicago after their 4-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday, giving them a couple of days in the Windy City. This allowed Jonathan Toews the opportunity to throw out the first pitch in front of his teammates and all the Chicago Cub fans at Wrigley Field. Maybe they hit some of the other highlights like Millennium Park or the Green Mill as well?
But with the weekend over, the True Northers will have to get back to work in the final stretch as t...
A busy day in the National Hockey League, as 30 of 32 franchises will be in action on this Saturday in late March. With teams having between 9 and 12 games remaining in the regular season, the final push for playoff and Lottery draft standings is in full effect.
When it comes to the Winnipeg Jets ( 72 pts ) and their place in the NHL standings, these 8 contests will be the ones to keep an eye on:
FLA ( 73 ) @ NYI – NJ ( 76 ) @ CAR – SJ ( 71 ) @ CLM – SEA ( 74 ) @ BUF – TOR ( 75 ) @ S...
Thirteen games on the National Hockey League’s schedule tonight…..so the franchises will be moving up and down the standings after all the action concludes. Lets see what is on tap for the Winnipeg Jets this evening…..
COL Avalanche @ WPG Jets
Start Time: 7 pm Central – Canada Life Centre
Winnipeg ( 30-29-12 ) is tied for 25th place in the NHL with 72 points on the season, scoring 203 Goals For ( 24th ) and allowing 220 Goals Against ( 18th ). Mark Scheifele le...
**photo above via the site of the University of St. Thomas – TommieSports.com and taken by Nick Wosika**
The True North organization dipped into the undrafted free agent pool resulting from the conclusion of the NCAA hockey season ( at least for the non-playoff teams ). This time GM Kevin Cheveldayoff inked a 24 yr forward from the University of St. Thomas named Lucas Wahlin .
The Minnesota-born winger signed a one year contract with the Winnipeg Jets, starting in the 2026-27 NHL sea...
Up until now, the Jets have stubbornly remained in the wildcard fight, routinely picking up at least one point ( only outright lost 4 of their past 16 contests ). Despite Winnipeg often adding points to their year total, they actually have only managed to move from the 5th worst record to the 7th. However, since there are 5 teams with 2 or less points ahead of them in the standings….our hockey team could significant diminish the value of their upcoming 1st round draft pick over the remainder o...
Another very early game on Sunday has led to an abbreviated preview yet again…..
WPG Jets @ NY Rangers
Start Time: 11 am Central – Madison Square Garden
Winnipeg ( 28-29-1 2) is in 27th place in the NHL with 68 points on the season, scoring 196 Goals For ( tied for 24th ) and allowing 217 Goals Against ( tied for 19th ). Mark Scheifele leads the Jets with 31 goals, 52 assists, and 83 points. Kyle Connor is tied for the goal scoring lead as well, whi...
A very early game on Saturday has led to another abbreviated preview…..
WPG Jets @ PIT Penguins
Start Time: Noon Central – PPG Paints Arena
Winnipeg ( 28-29-11 ) is in 27th place in the NHL with 67 points on the season, scoring 192 Goals For ( 26th ) and allowing 212 Goals Against ( tied for 17th ). Mark Scheifele leads the Jets with 31 goals, 52 assists, and 83 points. Kyle Connor is tied for the goal scoring lead as well, while Gabriel Vilar...
After I clocked out for the week from my full time gig, I decided to spend a bit of time looking to see what the likelihood is the Winnipeg Jets will use their final 14 remaining games to move up or down in the standings.
The recent losses to the Nashville Predators and Boston Bruins have made a playoff bid even more unlikely, yet the True Northers are still only 5 points back of the Los Angeles Kings for the Western Conference’s final wildcard spot. However, with three more clubs between...
Too busy today to complete a full Winnipeg Jets’ preview for tonight’s game, so here is an abbreviated version…
WPG Jets @ BOS Bruins
Start Time: 6 pm Central – TD Garden
Winnipeg ( 28-28-11 ) is in 27th place in the NHL with 67 points on the season, scoring 191 Goals For ( 26th ) and allowing 206 Goals Against ( 13th ). Mark Scheifele leads the Jets with 31 goals, 52 assists, and 83 points. Kyle Connor is tied for the goal scoring lead as well, whi...
Too busy today to complete a full Winnipeg Jets’ preview for tonight’s game, so here is an abbreviated version…
NSH Predators @ WPG Jets
Start Time: 7 pm Central – Canada Life Centre
Winnipeg ( 28-28-10 ) is in 27th place in the NHL with 66 points on the season, scoring 188 Goals For ( 26th ) and allowing 202 Goals Against ( 11th ). Mark Scheifele leads the Jets with 31 goals, 51 assists, and 82 points. Kyle Connor is tied for the goal scoring lead as well.
Nashville ( 29-2...
With the surprising win on Saturday over the league leading Colorado Avalanche, the Winnipeg Jets have managed to pull within 6 points of the Western Conference’s final wildcard spot. That spot is currently being held by the San Jose Sharks, who have played 1 less game than the True Northers, and our club still needs to pass 4 other franchises in standings before they could grab that last post-season berth. So there is a lot of work to be done with only 17 more contests left in the regular sea...
The National Hockey League had a light schedule for Friday, with only two games on the books…yet both outcomes had an impact on our franchise. With the St. Louis Blues’ overtime win against the Edmonton Oilers, the Winnipeg Jets fell from 27th to 28th in the standings and the Los Angeles Kings victory over the New York Islanders extended the gap to the Western Conference’s final wildcard spot to 7 points.
So the True Northers fell back on a night they weren’t even playing…….and now they h...
Since both the Winnipeg Jets & Seattle Kraken lost on Tuesday night, our team remains 5 points back of the NHL’s Western Conference’s final wildcard spot…though the Los Angeles Kings have now joined the Kraken at 67 points, while the San Jose Sharks & Nashville Predators are just a single point back of that. So while the True Northers have closed the gap to a potential playoff berth…..they have yet to pass any of the clubs in their way.
The Jets’ points streak came to an abrupt end, with ...
Everyone needs a break every now and then, right? Well, the Winnipeg Jets certainly seemed to have put the 3 week Olympic break to good use, as the franchise has yet to play a game since then where the True Northers didn’t walk away with points. The Manitobans have a 4-0-2 record since goalie Connor Hellebuyck won a gold medal in Italy and that has launched a new belief that they could comeback to steal the Western Conference’s final wildcard spot.
The Seattle Kraken have provided some as...
The National Hockey League’s trade deadline for the 2025-26 campaign has come and gone, seeing our Winnipeg Jets become sellers for the first time in a while. General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff ended up shipping out a few veterans in Logan Stanley , Luke Schenn , & Tanner Pearson for packages that included a couple of player and picks.
Both skaters acquired from the Buffalo Sabres are going to make their debuts for the True North franchise tonight when Winnipeg squares off against the Van...
Shortly after the Winnipeg Jets downed the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night, General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff made his first trade deadline move as he confirmed that the True North franchise would be in the Seller category this season.
After news broke in the afternoon that defensemen Logan Stanley and Luke Schenn would be held out of the line up due to “ roster management ” reasons….we all knew that the likelihood that the veteran defenders would be moved increased dramatically. A...
Due to another hectic day at work today, this preview will be briefer than normal….as well as being posted much later. The Winnipeg Jets have gone to overtime in 5 of their last 6 contests, pulling out a 3-2 win on Tuesday over the Chicago Blackhawks to pull within 9 points of the Seattle Kraken & the Western Conference’s final wildcard spot. The Kraken had a chance to extend that last night against the St. Louis Blues, but a 3-2 loss has kept the deficit the same.
Tonight’s game at the C...
The Winnipeg Jets have been chasing the Anaheim Ducks & Seattle Kraken for the Western Conference’s final wildcard spot for quite a while now. Catching one of those franchises was the True Northers’ only hope to qualify for the playoffs, even though there was quite the gap they needed to overcome.
But that has recently changed over the past couple weeks of NHL action, as the Ducks have gone on a 5 game winning streak ( 8-2-0 in past 10 ) to move up the Western Conference standings. As a r...
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The Winnipeg Jets began the post-Olympic break off by stumbling out of the starting blocks, as they let a 2 goal lead disappear in the 3rd period versus Anaheim. After rookie defenseman Elias Salomonsson scored his first NHL goal to put the True Northers up 3-1 early in the final frame, the hometown Ducks dominated play to eventually tie things up with 1:22 remaining. The Jets almost escaped overtime with the game deadlocked, but with 13 seconds still left on the scoreboard a puck slipped by C...
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The Winnipeg Jets started the final stretch of the NHL’s 2025-26 campaign with a victory and they will need to pile up a lot more of those if they hope to qualify for the playoffs. The win over Vancouver did allow our team to close the gap to the final wildcard spot from 11 pts to 9 pts, so the True Northers took a good first step if they want to book a spot in the post-season.
The next obstacle in Winnipeg’s path is the Anaheim Ducks, who they will square off against in another late nigh...
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After a 3 week hiatus due to the 2026 Winter Olympics, the National Hockey League will resume its regular season today with a slate of 8 contests that includes the Winnipeg Jets taking on the Vancouver Canucks. That means that I am back writing about our hockey team again….did you miss me?? I had planned on doing some other articles during the break….but found that I enjoyed taking a step back too much and couldn’t get the motivation to do anything other than a bit of research of prospect Kier...
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About a week after the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics officially kicked off, the competition that I am most interested in is about to get underway today. Can’t say that I’ve watched a whole lot so far, but that should change now that the Men’s Ice Hockey tournament is about to start on Wednesday. Have to say that I’ve taken full advantage of the time without NHL hockey to take a step back and get to some of the tasks I have put off because I am always watching television.
Our Winnipeg Jet...
about 2 months ago
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The Winnipeg Jets have returned home from a 4 game road trip that saw the franchise continue to pick up points on a regular basis, as they went 2-1-1 to grab 5 of the available 8 points. Yet, despite going 7-3-3 since January 9th ( getting 17 of the available 26 pts ), the True Northers have only managed to close the gap on the Western Conference’s last wildcard spot by 2 points ( were down 11 pts, but it is now only 9 ). At that pace, the Jets would need 65 more games in the regular season to...
about 2 months ago
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The Winnipeg Jets have gone 2-1-0 on their road trip so far and will be looking to finish the trek on a positive note against their division rivals, the Dallas Stars. Both Central Division franchises are fighting for positioning in the NHL’s standings, but find themselves in quite different situations. The Texans are having another good season, but the dominance of the Colorado Avalanche and the Minnesota Wild’s play post- Quinn Hughes acquisition have the Stars scrapping for 2nd place & home ...
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