WINNIPEG -- Dylan DeMelo broke a tie with 27 seconds remaining, and the Winnipeg Jets defeated the Seattle Kraken 2-1 at Canada Life Centre on Thursday. DeMelo, who was playing in his 600th NHL game, scored with a wrist shot when Nikolaj Ehlers found him toward the high slot.

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.

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!

Youngster Matty Beniers got things going for Seattle just 8:12 into the game. A floating pass from the defensive zone caught the Jets standing still, before Kaapo Kakko fed Benier

First Period_1, Seattle, Beniers 9 (Kakko, Schwartz), 8:12. Penalties_Stanley, WPG (Elbowing), 5:26. Second Period_2, Winnipeg, Scheifele 27 (Connor, Morrissey), 9:35 (pp). Penalties_Oleksiak, SEA (Interference), 9:01; Stephens, SEA (High Sticking), 12:25. Third Period_3, Winnipeg, DeMelo 2 (Ehlers), 19:33. Penalties_None.

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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.

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 two clubs will renew hostilities after the Jets knocked off Seattle near the start of the season 4-3 on a Nikolaj Ehlers overtime winner. Winnipeg has remained atop the NHL standings, while Seattle enters play in the 28th spot.

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.