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!

Gilbert's best bet and prediction places the Winnipeg Jets as winners by a margin enough to cover the spread against the Seattle Kraken.

The Seattle Kraken will close out their first road trip of 2025 with a highly anticipated matchup against the Winnipeg Jets Thursday night, marking the second of three meetings between the two teams this season.

The Seattle Kraken and Winnipeg Jets couldn’t be moving on two more opposite spectrums at this point in the season. The Jets have one of the best records in the league and are alone at the top of the Western Conference.

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