Thursday night in the NHL features the Seattle Kraken steering into Winnipeg to faceoff with the Winnipeg Jets at Canada Life Centre. Welcome to NHL Predictions here at Last Word on Hockey, where we preview and predict the upcoming slate of NHL games around the league each day!

Dylan DeMelo scored with 27 seconds left in regulation to give the Winnipeg Jets a hard-earned 2-1 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Thursday.

DeMelo's goal with 27 seconds left was the difference in his 600th NHL game as the Jets picked up their third win in a row.

The Winnipeg Jets have really started to cook on this season-long eight-game homestand, going 3-0-1 after a midding 0-1-1 start. They’ll try to keep the good times rolling on Thursday night as they host a Seattle Kraken team that has spent the past week in enemy territory, going 2-2-0 so far on a five-game trip that is about to come to an end.

Shots on Goal_Winnipeg 7-13-4_24. Montreal 15-3-7_25. Power-play opportunities_Winnipeg 0 of 3; Montreal 0 of 0.

A suburban Seattle police officer is set to be sentenced Thursday for the 2019 shooting death of a 26-year-old homeless man he was trying to arrest for disorderly conduct outside a convenience store.

It was a bad night for Seattle to be missing a top penalty killer. Winger Brandon Tanev was ruled out due to illness. Tye Kartye, who was scratched in favor of John Hayden during the Kraken’s last game in Pittsburgh, went back in for Tanev.

First Period_1, Seattle, Beniers 9 (Kakko, Schwartz), 8:12. Second Period_2, Winnipeg, Scheifele 27 (Connor, Morrissey), 9:35 (pp).

KING 5 and KONG are the official local television partners of the Kraken, bringing the hockey team to free over-the-air live television. The stations will air 72 of the team's 82 regular season games. National broadcast partners will show the remaining 10 games.

Prediction for the NHL Seattle Kraken vs Winnipeg Jets match will occur on January 17. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The Winnipeg Jets have treated their fans to a couple of near perfect outings in the past week, beginning with a 3-0 shutout of the Colorado Avalanche and then following that up with a

The Kraken are now 2-5 so far in 2025. Looking to continue its winning ways, the Kraken play its final game of a five-game road trip Thursday when they travel to Winnipeg to take