Winnipeg Ends 2025-26 Season ‘Dissapointed’ with Finish

Losing streaks plagued the 2025-26 Winnipeg Jets. On multiple occasions, the Jets found themselves losing, and the games kept piling up.

35-35-12 is the Jets’ season record, and that’s after a Presidents’ Trophy-winning season.

Winnipeg had every right to be dissapointed for their season, and in the stretch after the Olympic break, they got within one point of a playoff spot.

“Everybody should be pissed off. Not just about tonight, but that we didn’t make the playoffs,” Scott Arniel said following a season-ending 6-1 loss to San Jose.

Dylan DeMelo set that tone in his post-game press scrum. He was pissed off, and letting it be known about the privilege of playing in the National Hockey League.

The deep sense of disappointment might’ve rippled throughout tonight’s media scrums, but it goes farther back than tonight.

A sold-out crowd poured on the love for the Winnipeg Jets following a 6-1 loss to the Sharks. Winnipeg, despite a deficit, had its fans doing the wave and giving them a standing ovation at the end of the game.

The players, and even the coach, mentioned the importance of giving the fans playoff hockey, and Scott Arniel captured it best.

“We’re not going to have hockey until September this year,” Arniel said about the Jets not being in the playoffs. “You’ve disappointed them that they can’t get dressed up, they can’t get crazy… can’t have the street parties… It’s a letdown,” Arniel said about the Jets not being in the playoffs. “We’re not going to have hockey until September next (season),” Arniel added.

The message is clear, and a 6-1 loss to the San Jose Sharks shows the difference between the two teams. San Jose’s oldest scorer in the win was 23 years old, while Winnipeg got its lone goal from Cole Koepke.

Koepke hopes to return next season, and as he said, he’s leaving that up to his agent and the team.

Winnipeg needed players with speed this season, and Koepke stepped up and provided that much-needed speed in a depth role.

While he didn’t play all 82 games, Koepke suited up in 66 games for Winnipeg. He tied his career high in points (17) in seven fewer games.

The answers aren’t immediately clear for Winnipeg, and it’s needs heading into the 2026 offseason. However, bringing back Cole Koepke wouldn’t be a terrible idea for the Jets’ depth group.

Every storyline will read Mackin Celebrini recording a three-point night to pass Joe Thornton’s 2006-07 season total of 114 points, and Winnipeg will live with that for a while. It wasn’t their finest game, but the Jets did Eric Comrie no favours in net.

The Jets have to find a way this offseason to recover, and that’s painstakingly clear after tonight’s loss. With four months off and plenty of time to figure things out, Winnipeg sits in a position to get a top-seven draft pick. If the lottery goes their way, they could find themselves drafting higher.