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.

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.

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 30-12-3 Winnipeg Jets are set to host the 19-23-3 Seattle Kraken from Canada Life Centre on Thursday. 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.

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.