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GM 2 Recap: Winnipeg Jets @ Detroit Red Wings
The True Northers opened up their season last Friday at the friendly confines of the Canada Life Centre, but were unable to pick up the first win of the season. So the Winnipeg Jets took their game to Michigan in search of one, where they clashed with the hometown Detroit Red Wings in a weekend matinee. So lets see how things played out…. GAME RECAP The Wings started this one like they were shot out of a cannon, instantly swarming the Jets and using their speed to slant the ice towar...
GM 2 Preview: Winnipeg Jets @ Detroit Red Wings
The Winnipeg Jets opened up the NHL campaign on Friday night with a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful effort as they had to settle for an overtime loss against the Boston Bruins. After practicing at the Hockey for All Centre on Saturday, the True Northers will be heading on the road for another opportunity to earn the first win of the year. Fortunately the trip will be a short one, with a double header booked with the Detroit Red Wings & Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday & Monday. Five day...
CHI Wolves @ MB Moose – Season Opener Recap
I know that many fans of the Winnipeg Jets only take a marginal level of interest in the club’s AHL team, preferring to wait until they make their NHL debuts or the mainstream media bring up the fact that one of the prospects are doing particularly well. And that is totally fine..82, now 84 NHL games are plenty to keep track of. That being said, I am not one of those in the above group, as I am an avid following of the mini-Jets. Over the past 10 years, the True Northers didn’t help thems...
GM 1 Recap: Boston Bruins @ Winnipeg Jets
Well, the Winnipeg Jets 2026-27 NHL season kicked off on Friday in front of a crowd of 15, 209 ( a little over a 100 short of a sell out ) when the Boston Bruins came to town. The fans were treated to the sight of many new faces in Jets’ uniforms, with rookie Viggo Bjorck leading the way of a new wave of future fan favourites. Joining him in the first game as a True Norther, goalie Stuart Skinner and defensemen Mario Ferraro & Tyrel Bauer were able to experience what playing for the Jets ...
GM 1 Preview: Boston Bruins @ Winnipeg Jets
Its GAME DAY!!!! Well that time has finally arrived…..the Winnipeg Jets are about to kick off their 2026-27 National Hockey League campaign on Friday evening when the Boston Bruins come to town for a visit. The Canada Life Centre will be rocking tonight when the slightly revamped True Northers take to the ice at 7:00 pm CDT, as the crowd will be anticipating seeing a much more youthful squad this season. After an off-season filled with a ton of intrigue surrounding goaltender Connor ...
Winnipeg Jets 2026-27 Season Predictions
The National Hockey League kicked off their 2026-27 season with a slate of 5 games on Tuesday, so I guess it is about time to get the ball rolling here at Arctic Ice Hockey for the upcoming Winnipeg Jets’ campaign. To be honest, it is probably past time….since the other writer here has been bugging me for a few days to write a Season Prediction article. I will be fair, Mullayo wasn’t expecting me to do all the work, since once I agreed that it was a good idea…it wasn’t long before I received h...
Jets’ Training Camp Battles
The Winnipeg Jets will be playing their 4th and final exhibition game of the National Hockey League’s 2026-27 season on Friday night. Things only started up a little over a week ago, it flew by so quickly….guess that is what happens when there are 2 less contests to schedule. Despite the apparent rush to get to the regular season games…our own hockey team will actually have to wait a full week before they kick things off by hosting the Boston Bruins at the Canada Life Centre on October 2nd. ...
Winnipeg Jets Training Camp Kicks Off
With the disappointing 2025-26 campaign now starting to fade into history, our Winnipeg Jets have gathered once again for another National Hockey League season. While the players were off doing whatever they do in the summer, us True North fans were left to take in rumours & then a confirmation that starting goaltender Connor Hellebuyck wants to move on from the only NHL franchise he has ever played for. Despite the almost never-ending chatter from the media about a pending trade that has ran ...
Winnipeg Jets’ Prospect Tourney Roster
As the National Hockey League’s 2026-27 campaign inches ever closer, with training camps around the league set to open up on September 16th/17th, the majority of players have already arrived in their home cities to begin the process of getting ready for another grueling season. While the veterans ( most of ) will focus on informal skates with their teammates until training camp officially opens up, the young prospects will get an opportunity to display their skills against some of their peers ...
How Would The Jets Handle An Expansion Draft Next Summer?
I recently read an article by The Athletic that projected who each National Hockey League team would protect if an expansion draft took place after the 2026-27 season is in the books. With all the talk of the league seriously considering expanding to places like Houston and Atlanta, amongst others, I guess the hockey writers are thinking about what things would look like if those rumours quickly turned into action. With the league at a nice round number like 32 franchises, it would make sense ...
Winnipeg Jets: Summer Doldrums Edition
Here we are in early August and the National Hockey League’s off-season has slowed down to a snail’s pace, with a whole lot of nothing happening recently. The last Free Agent of note to sign a contract with a new team was Patrick Kane opting to return to the Chicago Blackhawks more than 2 weeks ago. There are still some Unrestricted Free Agents looking for new deals, though the ones that might be attractive to our Winnipeg Jets are very limited. Forwards like Vladislav Tarasenko , Philipp...
Join BOJA on a Statistical Adventure
***warning: I probably should have changed the title to VERY LONG Adventure since this article ended up going on forever. My apologies in advance…hope you can make it all the way to the end. Maybe consider it a challenge? lol*** My summer so far has been untypically hectic to date…..a radical departure from my normal laissez faire lifestyle. As a result, while I did get the opportunity to read both of Mullayo’s articles about his True Value ( TV ) metric and spend a bit of time doing rese...
True Value Targets and Kill Power
Pittsburgh Penguins’ forward Connar Dewar celebrates a goal against the Utah Mammoth. Tenei koutou katoa, It’s your tenacious Kiwi limpet, back for another number crunch. If you missed the first article, True Value: An Apples vs Apples Scouting Tool , it goes into detail about how I went about creating the True Value metric, so please click the link to give it a read. Last week, I thought my True Value ( TV ) metric found a gem in Alex Newhook , who I wrongly assumed was underva...
Perfetti Inks Long-Term Deal with Jets
Winnipeg Jets’ General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff only had one remaining Restricted Free Agent ( RFA ) left to deal with this summer and that negotiation was entering its most tense period as the calendar showed there was less than 7 days before winger Cole Perfetti would get a hearing in front of an arbitrator. While those things can go pretty smoothly between the club & player/agent at times….resulting in a short-term contract near the middle of the opposing asks. Yet…things can ...
True Value: An Apples vs Apples Scouting Tool
**photos above of Mark Scheifele via James Carey Lauder-USA TODAY Sports , Brandon Hagel from Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images , Kyle Connor via Steve Roberts-Imagn Images , & Cutter Gauthier from Sportskeeda.com ** Kia ora koutou, it’s everyone’s favourite Kiwi ( *who is also a fan of the Winnipeg Jets, lives in Sydney, and now writes for Arctic Ice Hockey ). I’ve been making sports metrics for many years now. I started working out with the NFL Combine, then NBA Draft scouting, some...
Winnipeg Jets Organizational Depth Chart
While I covered some of the Winnipeg Jets new additions in Arctic Ice Hockey’s previous article ( A Look at Winnipeg’s Free Agent Signings – Arctic Ice Hockey ), I did end up overlooking some of the players that have joined the True North franchise. That was quickly brought to my attention by the person I am trying to bring on as a new AIH writer. It seems that our newest member, Mullayo , is rather fond of the work of GM Kevin Cheveldayoff on the blueline….as I quickly received an email ...
A Look at Winnipeg’s Free Agent Signings
Here we are, less than a week into the National Hockey League’s Free Agency period. Typically this is a part of the league’s calendar that Winnipeg Jets’ fans can turn off their phones and step away from the latest breaking news. With the limited pull our little northern city has with the players in the league, GM Kevin Cheveldayoff tends to hear a lot of “ no’s ” when he contacts the agents for the upper echelon of unrestricted free agents (UFAs) on July 1st. The Jets’ faithful are used to th...
Winnipeg Jets: Free Agency Outlook
Well, the start of the National Hockey League’s free agency period kicks off on Canada Day at 11 am Central….but as Winnipeg Jets’ fans, we all know based on past experience not to expect a bunch of big signings for our club on July 1st. That is the reality of the situation for one of the NHL’s smallest and coldest markets…players are just not lining up to come to Manitoba. Even when the True Northers were doing very well and on way to a Presidents’ Trophy, the Jets were still not a prime dest...
Winnipeg Jets: Early Summer Update
Despite a plethora of rumours swirling around Winnipeg Jets’ goalie Connor Hellebuyck , things have been pretty quiet around the True North franchise lately. Unless GM Kevin Cheveldayoff , the tender’s agent Ray Petkau , and whatever NHL teams the Jets would have contacted to accommodate a trade request have been doing a stellar job from keeping that to themselves….I assume that this is largely driven by fan speculation deriving from Hellebuyck’s post-season frustrations and media that despera...
Winnipeg Jets: Prospects Report – Part 4
Well, here we are….almost at an end of Arctic Ice Hockey’s look at the Winnipeg Jets’ prospect pool. In case you joined up late, you can check out Part 1 , Part 2 , & Part 3 by clicking the links. In our final installment of this series, we get to players who have a current NHL Certainty rating under 6.0. Yet when it comes to that & the Dobber Prospects’ PNHLe stat, both offer “ snapshots ” of where the prospect is on his developmental road….not where they think that road will lead. There...
Winnipeg Jets: Prospects Report – Part 3
After a week-long holiday away from researching & writing about the Winnipeg Jets, I am back to continue on with Arctic Ice Hockey’s look at how the True North franchise’s prospects are doing in their development. Through Part 1 & Part 2 we ended up looking at 7 of the most highly thought of prospects in Kieron Walton , Elias Salomonsson , Kevin He , Brad Lambert , Brayden Yager , Sascha Boumedienne , & Colby Barlow . After penning those articles, I walked away thinking that the scouts seeming...
Winnipeg Jets: Prospects Report – Part 2
In Part 1 of Arctic Ice Hockey’s look at the Winnipeg Jets’ current pool of prospects, we discovered that GM Kevin Cheveldayoff & the scouting department may have potentially found some gems in the later rounds of the drafts with Elias Salomonsson ( 2nd rd ), Kevin He ( 4th rd ), and Kieron Walton ( 6th rd ) all developing well since they were selected by the True North franchise. Now we turn our attention to a handful of players that are living with the higher expectations that come alon...
Winnipeg Jets: Prospects Report – Part 1
Well…my off-season here at Arctic Ice Hockey hasn’t began well, as it has almost been 2 weeks since my last article on the site. That lapse in time saw a few things happen involving the Winnipeg Jets organization, including the re-signing of bottom six forward Cole Koepke , the True North club getting unlucky at the Lottery Draft and falling to the 8th overall selection, and the Manitoba Moose being eliminated from the American Hockey League playoffs. All that skipped over because I decided to...
AHL Playoffs Round 2: Manitoba vs Grand Rapids
AHL CENTRAL DIVISIONAL SEMIFINAL ROUND Manitoba Moose (35-29-8) vs Grand Rapids Griffins (51-16-5) ***above graphic via MooseHockey.com.*** The Manitoba Moose were able to win their First Round series 2 games to 1 against the Milwaukee Admirals, using a pair of tight defensive 2-1 victories to move on in the AHL Playoffs and overcome dropping the opening contest. The biggest story line to arise from this matchup was the emergence of goaltender Dominic DiVincentiis . A bit...
AHL Playoffs GM 1 & 2: Milwaukee @ Manitoba
**apologies for the delay in this, as I had most of it written up on Wednesday night but then ran into some computer issues that I just completely sorted out today.** MOOSE REGULAR SEASON RECAP The Manitoba Moose are the only club in the True North organization that is still playing hockey, since the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets and ECHL’s Norfolk Admirals both failed to qualify for the post-season. Not that the mini-Jets were a dominant AHL squad this year, only qualifying for the Central’s ...
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