Winnipeg Jets
The whole organization. One connected view.
Western Conference · Central DivisionLine combinations
Source interpretation unqualified · 2026-10-19No unit on file.
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Contract horizon
Cap & contractsLine: season-specific ceiling. * Outlook or assumption. Balance is not certified cap room.
Cap outlook assumptions
Local to this panel; does not change the GM financial scenario ceiling.
Sources, coverage & amounts
Sum of known AAV, not a complete payroll forecast or available cap room. Relief, bonuses and other charges are excluded. The file may contain later-dated signed terms; its file stamp is not a historical as-of reconstruction.
NHL/NHLPA · 2026–27: $104M · 2026-05-06
NHL/NHLPA · 2027–28: $113.5M · 2025-01-31 · subject to adjustment
Elliotte Friedman / Sportsnet · 2028–29: $127.5M · 2026-09-25 · reported estimate, not confirmed
Beyond that, no published limit in the checked sources. Any chosen growth is a planning assumption, not a forecast. Expiring commitments do not automatically fund a complete future roster.
12 contracts with unresolved terms remain outside the bars.
- F
- 58,770,000 USD
- D
- 29,700,000 USD
- G
- 12,250,000 USD
0 priced signed extensions included this season.
Contract ledger · file stamp 2026-09-21
Compare all seasons · data table
USD amounts, rounded to the dollar. Known AAV only: zero does not mean a future roster is funded. Missing amounts stay separate; this balance is not certified cap room.
12 contracts with unresolved terms remain excluded. Contract ledger file stamp: 2026-09-21
| Season | Known AAV · USD | Ceiling · USD | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selected | US$100,720,000 | US$104,000,000 | |
| US$86,070,000 | US$113,500,000 | ||
| US$58,500,000 | US$127,500,000 | ||
| US$54,500,000 | Not published | ||
| US$54,500,000 | Not published | ||
| US$15,750,000 | Not published |
Prospect pathways
Prospects
Viggo BjörckC · Djurgårdens IFNHLETA —
Brayden YagerC · Manitoba MooseNHLETA —
Sascha BoumedienneD · Boston Univ.NHLETA —
Context & more prospects
Farm-board notables; recorded development stage, not an arrival forecast.
Viggo Björck: 42 GP · 2025–26 · 15 points
Brayden Yager: 68 GP · 2025–26 · 30 points
Sascha Boumedienne: 35 GP · 2025–26 · 10 points
Selection follows the farm board's published notable order. The NHL step is a pathway, not a confirmed move. Arrival dates and current rights are not verified here.
Kevin He
Elias Salomonsson
All pathways & roster lanes →What changed
All movesRetained history or declared window unavailable or held for validation; coverage unknown.
Results, standings & source context
Team overview
What the contracts mean for the next moves
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Winnipeg Jets retained attention report
Retained declarations only. Sampling, language and population coverage, name matching, missing-input treatment, original reporting window and use permission are unverified. Scores and ranks are not validated comparisons; no effect on play is established.
Player-news field 2; global-news field unknown.
Retained player references: Connor Hellebuyck (99) · Cole Perfetti (95) · Stuart Skinner (94)
GAMEDAY: Jets at Blues (2026-10-20) · Perfetti making most of promotion to top line with Jets (2026-10-20) · NHL inspired by ‘cabin cottage culture’ for Heritage Classic field design (2026-10-20) · Jets ‘waiting to see’ what happens with Hellebuyck, who could return this week (2026-10-19) · NHL unveils renderings for Heritage Classic at Princess Auto Stadium (2026-10-19)
Winnipeg Jets contracts, 2026–27 onward
Every contract CapOrCup could source, one row per player, one column per season. Certified rows match a club or NHL release. Reported rows come from a named outlet and are labelled. Contracts with no public source are listed separately, and none are estimated.
| Player | 2026–27 | 2027–28 | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | |||
| Kyle ConnorCertifiedLNMC | |||
| Mark ScheifeleCertifiedCNMC | |||
| Gabriel VilardiCertifiedC | |||
| Cole PerfettiCertifiedC | |||
| Adam LowryCertifiedC · NMC (years 1–2), 10-team no-trade (year 3), 5-team no-trade (years 4–5) | |||
| Nino NiederreiterCertifiedR | |||
| Alex IafalloCertifiedL | |||
| Vladislav NamestnikovCertifiedC | |||
| Morgan BarronCertifiedC | |||
| Cole KoepkeReportedL | |||
| Brad LambertCertifiedC | |||
| Kevin HeCertifiedL | |||
| Isak RosenCertifiedR | |||
| Nikita ChibrikovReportedR | |||
| Noah GregorReportedLW | |||
| Parker FordCertifiedC | |||
| Defence · | |||
| Neal PionkCertifiedD | |||
| Josh MorrisseyCertifiedDM-NTC | |||
| Dylan SambergCertifiedDM-NTC | |||
| Dylan DeMeloCertifiedDM-NTC | |||
| Mario FerraroCertifiedDM-NTC | |||
| Haydn FleuryCertifiedD | |||
| Jack St. IvanyReportedD | |||
| Goalies · | |||
| Connor HellebuyckCertifiedGNMC | |||
| Stuart SkinnerCertifiedG | |||
| Sourced total | |||
| |||
Who is earning the cap hit
Each priced WPG skater compared with every priced skater at the same position in the league. Open a signal for the full drill-down on the league board: the tests, the numbers, and what would change it.
Winnipeg Jets cap planner
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Scheifele · Connor · Vilardi
Iafallo · Lowry · Perfetti · Niederreiter · Namestnikov
Barron · Koepke · Rosen · Lambert
Gregor
Morrissey · DeMelo · Ferraro
Samberg · Pionk · Salomonsson
Fleury · Ivany
Winnipeg Jets retained lineup report
Declared source: Sportradar NHL feed (trial) (licence ended 2026-10-28). Ranks and units come from the retained report. Current lineup, club decisions, original publication, coverage, identity mapping and use permission are unverified. The first goalie on the chart is not a confirmed starter.
Players in the roster sources
| Player | # | Pos | Age | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | ||||
| Defense · | ||||
| Goalies · | ||||
Reported club scoring
Club totals with WPG.
| Player | GP | G | A | PTS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1Range not available Mark ScheifeleC | |||||
| #2Range not available Kyle ConnorL | |||||
| #3Range not available Gabriel VilardiC | |||||
| #4Range not available Josh MorrisseyD | |||||
| #5Range not available Cole PerfettiC | |||||
| #6Range not available Jonathan ToewsC | |||||
| #6Range not available Alex IafalloL | |||||
| #8Range not available Morgan BarronC | |||||
| #9Range not available Adam LowryC | |||||
| #9Range not available Logan StanleyD |
shots a game, expected per shot
allowed a game, expected per shot
How they gained the zone in condensed game
Read from the league's free condensed games: entries carried in against dumped in, entries denied at the line for and against, and the rest of what the model could see. A condensed game is a sample of the game, so these are observations from the games read, not season counts.
Games read: EDM at WPG (2026010023).
leans on his top six; rides his top four defence; sits back with a lead
How the bench was run, measured from the shift charts and the play-by-play (a mid-season coaching change is not separated). Each is set against the league median; style words appear only where the club is clearly away from it.
Plays like Colorado Avalanche, Pittsburgh Penguins, Vegas Golden Knights, Ottawa Senators, Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars
Four groups found by clustering every club's shot profile for and against. The group is described only by the features that set it apart from the league; no label is invented for it.
Winnipeg Jets: every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Winnipeg Jets: the front-office read
Every idea below is computed from sourced contracts, 2025–26 production, roster lanes, pick ownership and standings. Nothing is a rumour. Prices are computed guides from production and contract surplus, not market quotes.
Retooling
Reshaping the roster without a clear buy or sell pattern.
How this GM trades: . Sunk-cost risk: unknown.
Most urgent
Ranked by how soon the decision is forced: offer-sheet dates, cap compliance, deadlines and sell-offs.
Mitch Marner (VGK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Dylan Strome (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Tomas Hertl (VGK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Cap outlook
Sourced commitments against the announced or projected ceiling, and against a flat cap at today's (the ceiling stayed flat in 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24). Unpriced contracts are not counted, so real room is smaller.
| Season | Committed | Ceiling | Room (projected) | Room (flat cap) | Needs growth | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026–27 | ||||||
| 2027–28 | ||||||
| 2028–29 | ||||||
| 2029–30 |
Long, expensive contracts: Kyle Connor ( through 2033–34: ); Mark Scheifele ( through 2030–31: ); Connor Hellebuyck ( through 2030–31: ); Gabriel Vilardi ( through 2030–31: ); Neal Pionk ( through 2030–31: ); Cole Perfetti ( through 2030–31: ); Adam Lowry ( through 2030–31: ).
Protection slots are worth something
The NHL has not approved or announced an expansion team or expansion draft. In June 2026 it gave the Friedkin family a six-month window to explore a second Texas team in Houston or Austin (about $3.5 billion for the fee and an arena). The Board of Governors met on September 22, 2026 without announcing a decision; any expansion would still need a vote of the Board. No expansion draft is announced. Reported, not official: a Houston or Austin team could be awarded before the end of 2026 and would begin play in 2029-30, which would put its expansion draft in June 2029. The league is also reported to be talking with at least two other groups about a 34th team. Checks here apply the rules to today's rosters and contracts as a planning scenario, not a forecast. The format is not announced either: one new club per draft (a club could face a draft in consecutive years) or two clubs in the same draft (a club could lose two players at once). Under the 2021 rules a club protects 7 forwards, 3 defencemen and 1 goalie (or 8 skaters and 1 goalie). Every no-movement clause in force must be protected and uses a slot, so its real cost is the player it pushes off.
If a draft is announced: ask a no-move player to waive for the draft, trade an exposed player now rather than lose them for nothing, or make a side deal with the expansion club to steer its pick.
Needs
A position (centre, wing, defence pair or goal) counts as a need when most of its regulars are unsigned past this season, or when they produce below the league average for that position.
Centre
- Established
- Signed for 2027–28
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
Right wing
- Established
- Signed for 2027–28
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
Right-shot defence
- Established
- Signed for 2027–28
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
Offer-sheet exposure
This club's own RFAs for summer 2027: what their production is worth on the open market, which compensation band an aggressive offer would fall in, and whether the club could match with the room it has committed. The 2027–28 ceiling is not set; this uses the current ceiling.
No pending RFA carries offer-sheet risk.
Trade targets
Realistic targets, not wish lists: young players stuck behind veterans, salary a cap-strapped club has to move, rentals on selling clubs, and good contracts priced by what they are worth. Young franchise-core players and anyone with a no-move or full no-trade clause are left out.
Mitch Marner (VGK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Dylan Strome (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Tomas Hertl (VGK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Justin Robidas (CAR)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Price guide
Stephen Halliday (OTT)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Felix Unger Sorum (CAR)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Price guide
Logan Stankoven (CAR)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Noah Ostlund (BUF)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Boone Jenner (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Arseny Gritsyuk (NJD)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Justin Hryckowian (DAL)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Tony DeAngelo (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Offer-sheet candidates
RFAs at clubs tight on cap. Compensation depends on the offer's AAV band and must be paid in the offering club's own picks; the Carlsson offer sheet in July 2026 showed how far a club will go to match.
Matias Maccelli (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Calum Ritchie (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Gabe Perreault (NYR)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Maxim Shabanov (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Multi-team ideas
Chains where every club receives a player in a need lane, gives up roughly what it gets, and stays under the cap. Salary retention is used at most once per contract (the 2025 MOU bars a second retention on the same contract within 75 regular-season days) and never above 50%.
ANA → DET → STL → WPG
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → STL: Justin Faulk (sell-high, )
Gate at STL: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - STL → WPG: Mason McTavish (salary, )
Gate at WPG: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - WPG → ANA: Nino Niederreiter (salary, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → SJS → WPG
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → SJS: Justin Faulk (sell-high, )
Gate at SJS: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - SJS → WPG: Adam Gaudette (sell-high, )
Gate at WPG: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - WPG → ANA: Nino Niederreiter (salary, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → NSH → WPG
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → NSH: Justin Faulk (sell-high, )
Gate at NSH: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - NSH → WPG: Nick Perbix (rental, )
Gate at WPG: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - WPG → ANA: Nino Niederreiter (salary, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → NJD → WPG
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → NJD: Justin Faulk (sell-high, , DET retains )
Gate at NJD: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - NJD → WPG: Evan Rodrigues (sell-high, )
Gate at WPG: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - WPG → ANA: Nino Niederreiter (salary, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
Trade concepts
Each is priced from the player's tier and the contract's surplus over its remaining term, then cap-checked: salary in against salary out. A shape to test, not a final price.
Concept: Justin Robidas (CAR)
- Contract
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Logan Stankoven (CAR)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Noah Ostlund (BUF)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Boone Jenner (WSH)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Sell-high candidates
Players in their prime who produce more than their cap hit suggests, with the deal ending within two seasons: the moment their trade value peaks.
Josh Morrissey
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Mark Scheifele
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Scenario basis
Young players to build around
Players under 24, judged on NHL games played and five-on-five scoring rate, their prospect ranking, and what they are producing now.
Kieron Walton
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
Elias Salomonsson
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
Isak Rosen
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
Zach Wooten
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
Brad Lambert
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
Free-agent targets
Pending UFAs (26 to 32, no extension signed) in this club's need lanes. The current cap hit is shown for reference, not as an estimate of the next contract.
Pavel Zacha (BOS)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
Casey Mittelstadt (BOS)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
Alex DeBrincat (DET)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
Kirill Marchenko (CBJ)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
Artem Zub (OTT)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
Alexandre Carrier (MTL)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
Where the market is going
Price of production at signing: cap hit per point of pace in the season before the deal, from the sourced contract ledger. Samples depend on how many deals are priced.
The ledger holds contracts still active in 2026-27, so one- and two-year deals signed in 2024 are missing from the 2024 column. Segments with different term mixes are therefore not comparable here; the term-matched reading is the pricing study on the integrity page.
Goalies: by raw save percentage, a goalie's season after changing teams is almost unrelated to the one before (correlation across moves, vs for goalies who stayed). Adjusted for shot quality the gap disappears ( stayed vs moved): the system changes the shots a goalie faces, so judge goalies on goals saved above expected. of established-goalie trades returned a first-round pick against for productive skaters ( goalie trades: a small sample).
Largest cap hits signed in summer 2026: Leo Carlsson (), Connor Bedard (), Cutter Gauthier (), Pavel Dorofeyev (), Alex Tuch ().
Ask the Winnipeg Jets assistant GM
Answers use only the ideas above, the club's contracts and trades, and the CBA, and cite each one. If the facts do not support an answer, it says so.
Kevin Cheveldayoff: 15.3 years in
How long GMs have lasted since 1967, and what that implies for a GM who has served this long. A GM who expects to be gone soon has a reason to buy today; this is the base rate, not a read on him.
Winnipeg Jets: what deadline rentals cost
A rental is a pending unrestricted free agent bought between January 1 and the deadline. Its price is the pick value sent, in expected career NHL games. Part of a price can be rational: a win is worth more to a club on the playoff line. This splits the price above the league mean into what the standings on the trade date explain and what they do not.
| Date | Rental | GM | Picks sent | Price | Win value | Vs mean | Not explained |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-02 | Sean Monahan | Kevin Cheveldayoff | none | −62 | −62 | ||
| 2023-03-04 | Vladislav Namestnikov | Kevin Cheveldayoff | 2025 round 4 | +16 | +16 |
| GM | Rentals (league-wide) | Mean price | Not explained: mean | 25th to 75th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Cheveldayoff | 2 | Not on file (fewer than 5 rentals (2)) | ||
Win value is the rise in the club's chance of reaching the playoff line from one more win, in percentage points. Units are expected career games of the picks sent; a price in cap-share dollars needs the Worth model on rentals, which is not adopted. Not netted: the rental's quality, salary retained by the seller, and players or prospects sent. A rental's expiry is quoted from the trade's NHL.com story, or from the contract archive where the story is silent (an archive expiry can be a restricted one).
There is usable depth here, but the organization needs development wins rather than assuming draft pedigree will carry it.
- 01Treat first- and second-round picks as scarce replenishment assets.
- 02Create real NHL auditions for cheap players before buying depth.
- 03Do not confuse one headliner with a complete pipeline.
Winnipeg Jets picks
Every round for the next three drafts: the club's own picks, picks it has acquired, and picks it has traded away, with any conditions. "Own" means the pick was checked against the club's trades since 2023; "Own, unconfirmed" means no trade is on record but that check has not been done.
Winnipeg Jets roster moves
Retained move reports within 45 declared days. Original publication, coverage and same-day event order are unverified; no current roster state is inferred.
Declared source: Sportradar NHL feed (trial) (licence ended 2026-10-28)
Not on file (No qualified retained reports for this declared window, or records held for validation; coverage unknown.)Winnipeg Jets injury listings
Club injury listings: source metadata is invalid or unsupported; this feed is unqualified; use entitlement is unverified. CapOrCup does not guess them; its own availability measure, games not dressed, is unaffected.
Placed on waivers, league-wide
Retained source-labelled waiver reports within three declared days. Report linkage, same-day event order and outcomes are unverified.
Who fits here: fit: not yet validated
No ranking of who fits Winnipeg Jets is shown until the move backtest passes. What follows describes how Winnipeg Jets plays and is coached, and the roster rules any addition must clear. The lane-based matchmaker stays on the Assistant GM.
Head coach: , in charge since 2024-10-09 (168 regular-season games on file). Assistants: Not on file.
How this staff has used players (2025-26), against what position and prior minutes predict:
Contracts counted toward the 50 limit: . Active roster for the 23-man limit: Not on file.
as of 2026-04-16
trades
Pittsburgh Penguins receive
GM: Kyle Dubas
- David Gustafsson
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Buffalo Sabres receive
GM: Jarmo Kekalainen
- Tanner Pearson
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
- 2026 7th-round pick
Buffalo Sabres receive
GM: Jarmo Kekalainen
- Logan Stanley
- Luke Schenn
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
- Isak Rosen
- Jacob Bryson
- 2027 2nd-round pick · now owned by WPG
- 2026 4th-round pick · conditional
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
- 2027 2nd-round pick · now back with WPG
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Pittsburgh Penguins receive
GM: Kyle Dubas
- 2026 2nd-round pick
- 2027 4th-round pick · now owned by BOS
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
- Chris Driedger
Florida Panthers receive
GM: Bill Zito
- Kaapo Kahkonen
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Dmitry Kuzmin
Pittsburgh Penguins receive
GM: Kyle Dubas
- Rutger McGroarty
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Carolina Hurricanes receive
GM: Eric Tulsky
- Future considerations
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
New Jersey Devils receive
GM: Tom Fitzgerald
- 2024 3rd-round pick
- 2025 2nd-round pick
Salary retained:
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Montréal Canadiens receive
GM: Kent Hughes
Not stated in the announcement.
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
San Jose Sharks receive
GM: Mike Grier
- 2025 4th-round pick
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Nashville Predators receive
GM: David Poile
- 2024 2nd-round pick
New York Rangers receive
GM: Chris Drury
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
- three NHL Draft picks
- Morgan Barron
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
- Zach Sanford
Ottawa Senators receive
GM: Pierre Dorion
- 2022 5th-round pick
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Jim Benning
- 2022 3rd-round pick
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Washington Capitals receive
GM: Brian MacLellan
- 2022 2nd-round pick
- 2023 NHL Draft
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
- Jordie Benn
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Jim Benning
- 2021 6th-round pick
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Columbus Blue Jackets receive
GM: Jarmo Kekalainen
- Patrik Laine
- Jack Roslovic
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
- Paul Stastny
Vegas Golden Knights receive
GM: Kelly McCrimmon
- Carl Dahlstrom
- 2022 4th-round pick · conditional
How the ledger is built
- 2024–25 onward: parsed from NHL.com's season trade pages, which list every trade. Each card links to the NHL.com announcement.
- 2019–20 to 2023–24: parsed from NHL.com trade announcements tagged to a club. Some trades are missing; those seasons are marked partial.
- "Details incomplete" means the announcement did not state one side; the original sentence is shown instead of a guess.
- Picks in 2027–2029 show their current owner from the verified pick ledger.
Winnipeg Jets: difficulty rank #14Range not available
Every game priced by the model with the club's rest state. Difficulty averages four league ranks (opponents , rest , travel , back-to-backs ); expected points is the model's own forecast and depends on the club as much as the schedule. League table on the schedule page.
By month: 2026-10: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-11: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-12: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-01: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-02: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-03: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-04: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back.
games
Price is the model's chance for this club at the morning of the game with rest known; it moves when rosters are published. The spot names what the schedule did to the club that night.