Colorado Avalanche Favoured Tonight Against a Jets Team That Wins on the Road
Coach Tremblay · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Updated Oct 8, 2026
Colorado Avalanche to win
The read: Advantage to Colorado, but one never proven on the road.
Market median, read Oct 7, 2026, 8:50 a.m. ET. Median of UK bookmakers, not the price of any Ontario operator.
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Form & standings
- 2-0-0
- Record
- 2-0-1
- 4th / 6th
- Central / West
- 3rd / 5th
- W 6-1 vs STL
- Last game
- W 3-2 at PIT
- W2
- Streak
- W2
As of publication. W win, L regulation loss, OTL overtime or shootout loss (OT: in overtime, SO: in a shootout). The record reads wins-losses-overtime losses; the streak, W3 = three wins in a row.
Head-to-head
COL 2 – 2 WPG- Dec 19, 2025 Avalanche won 3–2
- Mar 14, 2026 Jets won 3–1
- Mar 26, 2026 Avalanche won 3–2
- Mar 28, 2026 Jets won 4–2
The market
Market median, read Oct 7, 2026, 8:50 a.m. ET. Median of UK bookmakers, not the price of any Ontario operator.
Price shown for information only and subject to change; this is not an invitation to bet. Restricted to those aged 19 and over in Ontario. Responsible gambling - ConnexOntario, 1 866 531-2600.
The analysis
Puck drop is Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 7:30 p.m. ET, at the Canada Life Centre. The Winnipeg Jets host the Colorado Avalanche in the 2026-27 NHL regular season.
The Canada Life Centre holds 15,004 fans.
Winnipeg sits at 2-0-1: 2 wins, 0 losses, 1 overtime loss. Their sequence reads W, W, OTL, 2 straight wins. Both of those wins came away from home: 2-0-0 on the road. At home, the Jets are only 0-0-1 this season.
Colorado hasn't lost yet: 2-0-0, sequence W, W, 2 straight wins. Both wins came in front of their own crowd, 2-0-0 at home. On the road, the Avalanche haven't played a game this season: 0-0-0.
Going into this game, the Jets sit 3rd in the Central Division and 5th in the Western Conference, with 5 points in 3 games. Going into this game, the Avalanche sit 4th in the Central and 6th in the West, with 4 points in 2 games.
The numbers we track show 4 meetings between these two clubs in the 2025-2026 season. Winnipeg won 2, Colorado won 2. Dead even.
The market favours the Colorado Avalanche, priced at 1.56 (-179). The Winnipeg Jets sit at 2.60 (+160). That price was read Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 8:50 a.m. ET. That's information, not advice.
My read: Colorado looks dominant, but all of it happened in front of their own crowd. Winnipeg wins away from home, not in front of theirs. Tonight flips both contexts. I'll take the Colorado Avalanche to win. My confidence: medium. Colorado hasn't proven it can win on the road yet, and the Jets have shown they can do exactly that, just not here.
After the game
LostCOL 2 – WPG 3
The Winnipeg Jets beat the Colorado Avalanche 3 to 2 in regulation, and the pick on the Avalanche goes down as a loss. Colorado opened the scoring in the second period, but Winnipeg answered twice before that frame was over, then added the winner late in the third. The Avalanche tied it back up in the third, but Winnipeg had the answer with time running out. The result stands as written, and the pick is a loss.
Published Oct 7, 2026 · Updated Oct 8, 2026
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