- 1 Carolina Hurricanes vs Winnipeg Jets: a team without a win in seven visits the NHL’s best record
- 2 Carolina Hurricanes: 33.6 shots a game and a 9-0-0 goaltender
- 3 Winnipeg Jets: no Hellebuyck, no Morrissey, and 2.46 goals a game
- 4 Free NHL Prediction: Carolina Hurricanes vs Winnipeg Jets
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Carolina Hurricanes vs Winnipeg Jets: a team without a win in seven visits the NHL’s best record 
Winnipeg last won a hockey game on 13 October. Since then the Jets have gone 0-5-2, including three straight regulation defeats after Connor Hellebuyck was traded to New Jersey, and Thursday’s 6-4 loss in Tampa ended with Stuart Skinner pulled after allowing five goals on 21 shots.
They’re 4-6-3, seventh in the Central with 11 points, and they’ve scored 32 goals in 13 games. Carolina sit at the other end of the standings: 11-2-2, 24 points, first in the Metropolitan and the best record in the league.
The game is on Sunday 1 November at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, puck drop at 1:00pm ET. It’s the second meeting of the season. Carolina won the first 3-2 in Winnipeg on 17 October, with Nikolaj Ehlers scoring the third-period winner on the power play.
Winnipeg played in Tampa on Thursday and in Florida on Friday, so Sunday’s matinee is their third game in four days and the last stop of a three-game road trip. Carolina last played on Thursday, a 3-2 home win over Columbus, and have two days of rest.
The Hurricanes also won both meetings last season, 4-3 in Winnipeg on 21 November 2025 and 5-1 at home a week later. We’d count that as five straight head-to-head wins for Carolina going into Sunday.
Carolina Hurricanes: 33.6 shots a game and a 9-0-0 goaltender 
Pyotr Kochetkov is 9-0-0 with a 1.66 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage. He started on 24, 27 and 29 October, and his 8-0-0 start had already tied a franchise record before Thursday’s win took him to nine.
The team in front of him controls games. Carolina take 33.6 shots a night and allow 21.9, a gap of nearly 12 shots, and they score 3.73 goals per game against 2.40 conceded. The power play runs at 23.5%, tenth in the league, and the penalty kill at 83.3%.
Sebastian Aho leads the scoring with 8 goals and 11 assists. His winner against Boston on 27 October was the 69th game-winning goal of his career, extending his own franchise record. Logan Stankoven has a team-high nine goals, five of them in the last five games, and Jackson Blake has seven points over the same stretch.
Taylor Hall is out after tweaking something on his return, though Rod Brind’Amour said it isn’t serious. Alexander Nikishin and Jordan Staal are also unavailable, and Mark Jankowski came back on 27 October after missing four games.
Carolina’s home record of 4-1-1 is actually weaker than their 7-1-1 on the road. They’ve still won three straight and are 8-1-1 over their last ten.
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Winnipeg Jets: no Hellebuyck, no Morrissey, and 2.46 goals a game 
New Jersey sent Dawson Mercer, Nico Daws, Nick Bjugstad, the rights to Alexander Command and two draft picks to Winnipeg on 23 October for Hellebuyck, who had asked to be traded. The Jets haven’t won a game since the deal.
Skinner has taken over in goal, 3-3-3 with a 2.97 GAA and an .899 save percentage across nine starts. Clay Stevenson is 1-3-0 at 3.57, and Daws made nine saves in relief in his Winnipeg debut on Thursday.
The blue line is missing Josh Morrissey, out since an upper-body injury against Colorado on 7 October and listed on injured reserve until at least 3 November. Vladislav Namestnikov is also on IR, and Bjugstad is on long-term injured reserve.
Kyle Connor has 10 of the team’s 32 goals and four on the power play. Mark Scheifele and Cole Perfetti have 11 points each, and Neal Pionk scored twice in Tampa. Beyond those four, nobody on the roster has more than six points.
The underlying numbers match the record. Winnipeg take 27.0 shots a game and allow 28.8, win 45.2% of their faceoffs, and kill 74.2% of penalties, 21st in the league. The Jets are 2-2-2 on the road and 2-6-2 over their last ten.
Probable lineup Carolina Hurricanes: Not announced at time of publication (Kochetkov the likely starter in goal)
Probable lineup Winnipeg Jets: Not announced at time of publication
Free NHL Prediction: Carolina Hurricanes vs Winnipeg Jets
Our prediction: Carolina Hurricanes -1.5 (puck line)
We’re taking Carolina to win by two or more. The moneyline was 1.40 for the Hurricanes’ home game against Columbus on Thursday, and we’d expect a similar price against a Jets team that’s 0-5-2 in seven, so the puck line is where the value sits. A Carolina win at that price isn’t worth backing on its own.
The first meeting finished 3-2, and Stevenson made 34 saves that night to keep it close. That’s the one result against us. The circumstances on Sunday are different: Winnipeg will be on their third game in four days, with a goaltending group that’s conceded six in its latest outing and no Morrissey on the blue line.
Carolina have outshot opponents by nearly 12 a game, and the Jets’ penalty kill sits 21st. Add an empty-net chance late in a close game and we’d make the Hurricanes clear favourites to cover. Check Friday’s result in Florida and the goaltending announcements before puck drop.
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