{"id":14061,"date":"2026-09-30T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=14061"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:11:15","slug":"bruins-vs-jets-prediction-team-news","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/ca\/news\/nhl\/bruins-vs-jets-prediction-team-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins vs Jets: Prediction, Team News and Winnipeg Without Hellebuyck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruins vs Jets is Winnipeg&#8217;s home opener, and the Jets play it without the best goaltender in franchise history. Connor Hellebuyck is serving a suspension that runs to 17 October after requesting a trade, which leaves a club that finished 26th last season starting a goaltender it signed from a rival.<\/p>\n<p>Puck drop is 8:00pm ET at Canada Life Centre. Here is the Bruins vs Jets team news and the form behind it.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Detail<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Value<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody><tr><td><strong>Fixture<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Boston Bruins at Winnipeg Jets<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Friday 2 October 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Time<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">8:00pm ET \/ 7:00pm CT<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Venue<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Canada Life Centre, Winnipeg<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>2025-26 head to head<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Boston won both, 12-4 on aggregate<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Records<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Boston 1-0-0, Winnipeg yet to play<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n<h2>Bruins vs Jets odds<\/h2>\n<p>The Canadian books had not posted a price for this game when we checked on 30 September. We will add the board once it lands. Live prices across the league sit on our <a href=\"\/ca\/nhl\/odds\/\">NHL odds<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h2>Winnipeg without Hellebuyck<\/h2>\n<p>The Jets suspended Connor Hellebuyck after he asked to be traded. He is listed as unavailable until <strong>17 October<\/strong>, which covers at least the first six games of Winnipeg&#8217;s season. The full story is on our <a href=\"\/ca\/news\/nhl\/connor-hellebuyck-trade-request\/\">Hellebuyck trade request<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That leaves Stuart Skinner.<\/strong> Signed from Edmonton over the summer, he went 11-8-4 with a 2.83 goals-against average and a .891 save percentage for the Oilers last season, which was second best among the four goaltenders they used. Clay Stevenson is the other option.<\/p>\n<p>This matters more in Winnipeg than it would almost anywhere else. The Jets took 82 points and finished 26th with a goal difference of minus 29, and their goaltending was the thing propping the rest up. Take it away and the margin disappears.<\/p>\n<h2>There is still a very good team in there<\/h2>\n<p>Mark Scheifele put up <strong>103 points<\/strong> last season, 36 goals and 67 assists, and finished level at even strength on a team that conceded 29 more than it scored. That is a remarkable individual season on a bad club.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Morrissey added 55 from the blue line at plus six. Cole Perfetti signed a five-year contract in July. Kyle Connor, Gabriel Vilardi and Nino Niederreiter give the forward group more than a 26th-place finish suggests.<\/p>\n<h2>Boston are the better team and just proved it<\/h2>\n<p>Boston finished 100 points and eighth overall, then opened this season with a <strong>3-0 shutout of the New York Rangers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>David Pastrnak reached 100 points last season on 29 goals and 71 assists. Morgan Geekie scored 39. Pavel Zacha added 30 and 65 points. Charlie McAvoy put up 61 from defence at plus 13, and Viktor Arvidsson finished at plus 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Swayman is the difference in this matchup.<\/strong> He went 31-18-4 with a 2.71 average and a .908 save percentage across 55 appearances. Winnipeg are starting a goaltender who has never been better than .891 in a full season, and Boston are starting one who has.<\/p>\n<h2>Team news<\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Player<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Club<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Status<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Expected back<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody><tr><td><strong>Connor Hellebuyck<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Winnipeg<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Suspended<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">17 October<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Walker Duehr<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Winnipeg<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Injured reserve, lower body<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">17 October<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Elias Salomonsson<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Winnipeg<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Injured reserve, shoulder<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">15 October<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Garrett Brown<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Winnipeg<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Injured reserve, lower body<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2 October<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p>Boston carry no significant absences into this Bruins vs Jets meeting, which is part of the problem for Winnipeg. Availability across the league is on our <a href=\"\/ca\/nhl\/injuries\/\">NHL injury report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What happened last season<\/h2>\n<p>Two meetings. Boston won both, and neither was close.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Date<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Result<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Venue<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody><tr><td><strong>11 December 2025<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Boston 6-3 Winnipeg<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Winnipeg<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>19 March 2026<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Boston 6-1 Winnipeg<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Boston<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p>Twelve goals to four across the two, including six in Winnipeg. Boston have scored six in each of their last two visits to this fixture.<\/p>\n<h2>Players to watch<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Mark Scheifele.<\/strong> A hundred and three points on a team that finished 26th. If Winnipeg are to stay in this, it runs through him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Pastrnak.<\/strong> A hundred points of his own, and 71 of them assists, which is the part people forget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuart Skinner.<\/strong> First real test of the Hellebuyck contingency, at home, against a side that has put six past Winnipeg twice in a row.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Swayman.<\/strong> A shutout on opening night and the best save percentage in this game by some distance.<\/p>\n<h2>Bruins vs Jets prediction<\/h2>\n<p>This is the most one-sided Bruins vs Jets matchup the fixture has offered in years, and the goaltending is why.<\/p>\n<p>Boston are 18 points better on last season&#8217;s table, have won the last two meetings by a combined eight goals, opened with a shutout, and arrive with their first-choice goaltender against a club whose first choice is suspended. Home ice and an opening-night crowd are real, but they are not worth that much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our lean: Boston, and the over if the total sits at 6 or lower.<\/strong> Boston scored six in each of the last two meetings and Winnipeg will be pressing at home. We will firm this up when the board is posted.<\/p>\n<p>Where these two sit against the other 30 is on our <a href=\"\/ca\/nhl\/power-rankings\/\">NHL power rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-BVJ1\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">What time is Bruins vs Jets?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Puck drop is 8:00pm ET on Friday 2 October 2026 at Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, which is 7:00pm local time. It is Winnipeg&#8217;s home opener.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-BVJ2\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">Is Connor Hellebuyck playing?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">No. Hellebuyck is suspended until 17 October after requesting a trade. Stuart Skinner, signed from Edmonton over the summer, is expected to start for Winnipeg.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-BVJ3\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">Who won between Boston and Winnipeg last season?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Boston won both meetings, 6-3 in Winnipeg in December and 6-1 in Boston in March, a combined 12-4.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-BVJ4\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">How did Boston start the season?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">With a 3-0 shutout of the New York Rangers on opening night. Jeremy Swayman kept the clean sheet.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-BVJ5\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">Where did these teams finish last season?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Boston finished 8th overall on 100 points with a goal difference of plus 22. Winnipeg finished 26th on 82 points at minus 29.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p><em>19+ (18+ in AB, MB and QC). Odds are approximate at the time of writing and change constantly. Availability varies by province. Please play responsibly. ConnexOntario: 1-866-531-2600 for Ontario residents; see your province&#8217;s helpline for resources elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruins vs Jets is Winnipeg&#8217;s home opener, and the Jets play it without the best goaltender in franchise history. Connor Hellebuyck is serving a suspension that runs to 17 October after requesting a trade, which leaves a club that finished 26th last season starting a goaltender it signed from a rival. 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