Winnipeg Jets Prospect Check-in at the Olympic Break

In 13 NHL games, the 21 year old has zero points, a minus-5 rating, and has averaged 16:58 in ice time while looking increasingly comfortable and confident. In the American Hockey League (AHL), he has one goal and seven assists for eight points in 25 games and a minus-5 rating. He has been assigned to play with the Moose over the 2026 Winter Olympic break.

Manitoba Moose

Colby Barlow (2023, 18th overall)

Barlow, in his first professional season, has three goals and five assists for eight points in 37 games.

Tyrel Bauer (2020, 164th overall)

The rugged defenseman/enforcer, in his fourth season with the Moose, has one goal and two assists for three points in 32 games to go along with 68 penalty minutes. He has dropped the gloves four times this season and a fight he had with the Rockford IceHogs’ Dillon Boucher on Dec. 20 went viral for its ferocity.

Nikita Chibrikov (2021, 50th overall)

It’s been a tough third professional season for the right winger, who missed the back half of last season with an ankle injury that required surgery and hasn’t seemed to be able to get back up to speed as fast as he and the organization hoped.

He started the season with the Jets, playing eight games and registering no points, before being sent down to the Moose. He has not provided much offensive punch since, with just two goals and two assists for four points in 25 AHL games.

Domenic DiVincentiis (2022, 207th overall)

The goaltender, in his second professional season, has been fairly strong in tandem with Thomas Milic.

In 22 games, he has posted a 10-10-1 record, 2.75 goals against average (GAA), .906 save percentage (SV%), and a pair of shutouts.

Jacob Julien (2023, 146th overall)

The centre missed the first three months of the season with a lower-body injury before making his season debut with the ECHL’s Norfolk Admirals in early January. After two games with the Admirals, he rejoined the Moose and has two assists (his first two professional points) in four games.

Brad Lambert (2022, 30th overall)

Lambert began the season with the Jets, playing in four games and scoring his first-career NHL goal on Nov. 1 against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The speedy 22 year old Finnish centre was then sent down to the Moose and has five goals and six assists for 11 points in 27 games.

Thomas Milic (2023, 151st overall)

Milic has rebounded nicely in his third professional season after a tough sophomore campaign.

The 22 year old made his NHL debut with the Jets on Nov. 28 against the Carolina Hurricanes and appeared in two more NHL games after while Connor Hellebuyck was out due to arthroscopic knee surgery. He posted an 0-1-0 record, 3.46 GAA, and .871 SV% in his three NHL appearances.

He has been strong for the Moose, posting a 10-5-2 record, 2.34 GAA, .911 SV%, and one shutout in 18 games. In mid-January, he was named to the 2026 AHL All-Star Classic.

Fabian Wagner (2022, 175th overall)

The forward, in his third professional season, has been a frequent healthy scratch on a deep and experienced Moose team. He has one goal in 14 games.

Brayden Yager (2023, 14th overall by Pittsburgh Penguins)

Yager, one of the organization’s top prospects since being acquired for disgruntled prospect Rutger McGroarty in summer of 2024, has found some success in his first professional season. The 21-year-old-centre has five goals and 11 assists for 16 points in 40 games and has often played on the top six.

Danny Zhilkin (2022, 77th overall)

Zhilkin has found another gear in his third professional season after not having much success with the Moose as a rookie or a sophomore.

The 22-year-old centre made his NHL debut with the Jets on Jan. 8 versus the Edmonton Oilers and played four games, recording a plus-2 rating, before being returned to the Moose. With the Moose, he has an personal AHL-career-high eight goals and seven assists for 15 points in 34 games.

Ontario Hockey League

Jacob Cloutier (2025, 220th overall)

The right winger, in his second full season with the Saginaw Spirit, has 12 goals and 20 assists for 32 points in 26 games.

Edison Engle (2025, 188th overall)

The defenseman, in his first season with the Brantford Bulldogs, has two goals and 22 assists for 24 points in 46 games.

Kevin He (2024, 109th overall)

He, in his fourth and final OHL season, is one of the league’s premiere players and sits in the top 20 in points. He posted 14 goals and 17 assists for 31 points in 28 games for the Niagara IceDogs before being traded to the Flint Firebirds in a late-December blockbuster.

The left winger has not missed a beat with his new club, putting up an eye-popping 11 goals and 12 assists for 23 points in just 14 games since the trade.

Kieron Walton (2024, 187th overall)

Walton, in his fourth OHL season, is absolutely lighting up the league again.

The towering 19-year-old centre piled up 24 goals and 28 assists for 52 points in just 33 games with the Sudbury Wolves before being dealt to the Peterborough Petes in early January. He has put up six goals and six assists for 12 points in 10 games since the trade and currently sits second leaguewide in points.

Western Hockey League

Owen Martin (2025, 92nd overall)

The Oakbank, Manitoba-born forward, in his third full season with the Spokane Chiefs, has 14 goals and 15 assists for 29 points in 45 games.

United States

Sascha Boumedienne (2025, 28th overall)

The left-shooting defenseman, in his second season at Boston University, has two goals and seven assists for nine points in 26 games this season.

Boumedienne, a Swedish national despite being born in Finland, also represented Sweden at the 2026 World Junior Championship (WJC) in Minneapolis-St. Paul over the holidays and played a key role in helping their country capture its third gold medal in tournament history and first since 2012.

Boumedienne played a top-four role and helped Sweden go a perfect 7-0-0 while only allowing 16 total goals. He saw ample time on the man advantage that was lethal in operating at a 43.48 per cent clip (10 for 33).

Most notably, he scored what ended up being the gold-medal game winner versus Czechia at 3:47 of the third period — his perfectly placed one-timer put Sweden up 3-0 in the third period and proved to be the difference as Czechia scored two late in a furious comeback attempt that fell short. Overall, he had two goals and two assists along with a plus-4 rating.

Garrett Brown (2022, 99th overall)

The defenseman, in his third season with University of Denver Pioneers, has one goal and seven assists for eight points in 24 games. His next point will give him a person National Collegiate Hockey Conference career high.

Connor Levis (2023, 210th overall)

The right winger, in his first season with the Bowling Green State University Falcons after five seasons in the WHL, has four goals and one assist in 22 games.

Zach Nehring (2023, 82nd overall)

The right-winger, in his second season with the Western Michigan University Broncos, has five goals and 10 assists for 15 points in 26 games. Last season, he recorded 13 goals and 17 assists for 30 points in 40 games.

Europe & Russia

Alfons Freij (2024, 37th overall)

The defenseman, in his first full professional season with the Swedish Hockey League’s (SHL) Timra IK, has two assists in 31 games.

The 19 year old also suited up for Sweden at the 2026 WJC and was an assist machine, quarterbacking the power play and racking up seven in seven games along with a plus-5 rating. The 6-foot-1 left shooter had the primary assist on the game-opening goal in the gold-medal game and also picked up a pair of apples in the 6-3 quarterfinal win over Latvia, one of which was the primary assist on a Boumedienne power-play marker.

The 19 year old finished tied for third in points among defensemen, trailing only Canada’s Zayne Parekh (14) and Czechia’s Tomas Galvas (nine).

Viktor Klingsell (2025, 156th overall)

Klingsell, a left winger playing in the Swedish Hockey League’s (SHL) Skelleftea organization, has a whopping 15 goals and 25 assists for 40 points in just 23 games with the Skelleftea U20 team this season.

In late January, he was loaned to Östersunds IK of HockeyAllsvenskan — the second-highest pro hockey league in Sweden (under the SHL) — where he has one goal and two assists in two games.

Markus Loponen (2024, 155th overall)

Loponen is in his first professional season with Liiga’s HPK, where he signed a two-year deal in June, and has two goals and three assists for five points in 34 games.

Last season, the Finnish centre made a North American foray with the WHL’s Victoria Royals, scoring 19 goals and adding 25 assists for 44 points in 65 games and recording four goals and two assists for six points in 11 playoff games.

Dmitri Rashevsky (2021, 146th overall)

The forward, who is unlikely to ever play for the Jets’ organization as he signed a three-year deal with the Kontinental Hockey League’s (KHL) Avangard Omsk in June, has 10 goals and 18 assists for 28 points in 50 games for the club. The Russian spent the prior five seasons with the KHL’s Dynamo Moscow.