{"id":445348,"date":"2026-02-04T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/445348\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:16:21","slug":"analysis-jets-trying-to-stay-real-in-an-unrealistic-situation-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/445348\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: Jets trying to stay \u2018real\u2019 in an unrealistic situation &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canada Life Centre will be abuzz Wednesday night with hockey fans \u2013 in part because the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/montreal-canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> are in town, but also because the hometown <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/winnipeg-jets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> are playing their last home game before the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/nhl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NHL<\/a> closes shop for the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>For the Jets, a club trying to find its way back to a .500 record and a possible surge in the standings, whatever happens Wednesday will have little bearing on the direction the team will ultimately take coming out of the three-week shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Although the Jets have played arguably some of their most consistent hockey of the season since ending a franchise-record 11-game losing skid, the organization is most assuredly going to part with some of their older assets and pending free agent capital on or before the March 6 trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>As such, the team will likely look different when it reconvenes at home again against Chicago on March 3, because for Winnipeg to make the playoffs, we\u2019re sorry to report that the math just doesn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n<p>Entering Wednesday, the Jets are nine points back of a wild-card spot with 27 games to go. That\u2019s 54 possible points.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11650913\/jill-biden-ex-husband-william-stevenson-charged-murder\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770221781_45_jill-biden-ex-husband-charged.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJill Biden\u2019s ex-husband William Stevenson charged with murder in wife\u2019s death\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11650493\/savannah-guthrie-mother-nancy-abducted-home-today-host\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/savannah-guthrie-nancy-guthrie-missing.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Today\u2019 host Savannah Guthrie\u2019s mother abducted from home, police believe\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Last year, St. Louis was the last playoff qualifier in the West with 96 total points \u2013 44 more than what the Jets currently have.<\/p>\n<p>Now, before your eyes gloss over with numbers, let\u2019s simplify things here. To attain those 44 points, the Jets would have to win around 21 or 22 of their remaining 27 games for a .780 win percentage, or 70 points better than what they produced last year as the best regular-season team in the entire National Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible? Of course.<\/p>\n<p>It is probable. No!<\/p>\n<p>So again, as downtown buzzes with the Canadiens in town and the Jets\u2019 final game before the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/2026-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Olympics<\/a>, there is little doubt that when Winnipeg returns home in four weeks, it will be a different-looking team in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada Life Centre will be abuzz Wednesday night with hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,43,77,18,387,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-445348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-winnipeg","13":"tag-winnipeg-jets","14":"tag-winnipeg-sports","15":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116013262260372653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}