Winnipeg Jets’ Top 5 Goals of 2025-26

Barron, who recorded a career-high 23 points this season (in 65 games) and played a key role on the Jets’ bottom six and penalty kill, absolutely blew by one of the NHL’s elite defensemen in Cale Makar and made no mistake by going forehand to backhand on Scott Wedgewood.

5: Vilardi Bags 100th-Career Goal on Seemingly-Impossible Deflection — Nov. 26, 2025

Gabriel Vilardi has some of the most outrageous hands in the entire NHL, and one of the many times they were on display in his career-best 30 goal, 69-point season was in this late-November game versus the Washington Capitals.

On the power play, he somehow managed to deflect — drag out of midair, really — a Josh Morrissey wrister that was going to miss the net by a country mile for his 100th-career goal. Just as impressively, he managed to keep his stick just under the crossbar when making contact with the puck.

4: Connor’s Individual Effort Sets Up Scheifele — Dec. 3, 2025

The Jets’ secondary scoring dropped off drastically this season, but Kyle Connor and Mark Scheifele did not disappoint — the electric top liners combined for 75 goals and 195 points and 65 of the team’s 229 goals featured a point from each.

One of the many times the showcased their great chemistry was on this early-December marker versus the Montreal Canadiens. Connor chipped a loose puck past Noah Dobson in the neutral zone, squeezed around him, retrieved the puck, and dished a backhand pass to Scheifele, who’d found an empty pocket of ice up the middle. Scheifele, who four months later became the first Jet in the 2.0 era to record 100 points in a season, made no mistake by putting it high past Jakub Dobes.

3: Scheifele’s No-Look Pass Sets Up Connor Tap-In — Feb. 25, 2026

In another gorgeous Connor/Scheifele marker in a late-February contest versus the Vancouver Canucks, Scheifele returned the favour by doing the heavy lifting.

Gathering the puck behind the net while being hounded by defenseman Elias Petterson, Scheifele executed a no-look backhand pass to Connor rather than carrying it around. The pass fooled nearly the entire building and Connor had it in the net before goaltender Nikita Tolopilo could react or really even look in that direction.

2: Vilardi Dazzles With Net-Front Dangle — March 7, 2026

In another game versus the Canucks just over a week later, the Jets were outplaying their opponent handily but goaltender Kevin Lankinen was standing on his head and had surrendered just one goal.

Just when it appeared Lankinen would steal a win for his last-place team and put another dent in the Jets’ wild-card hopes, Vilardi came through with a slick power-play goal with less than five minutes remaining in the third period. Unsurprisingly, it came from the net-front position from which he has generated so many highlight-reel moments.

Taking the puck from Scheifele, he quickly dangled forehand to backhand to get Lankinen down and out, then deposited the puck top corner. While he’s pulled off similar goals before, they never get any less fun to watch because of how foolish they make goaltenders look.

The Jets later won the game in overtime.

1: Connor’s Eye-Popping Back-Hand Roof Job — Oct. 30, 2025

It’s incredible how many different ways Connor can score and how dangerous he is from so many different areas on the ice.

In this late-October game versus the Chicago Blackhawks, a 5-1 third-period Jets lead had shrunk to 5-3 and it appeared a tense final few minutes might be in store as the Blackhawks had the momentum.

Cue Connor, who put the game to bed with an outstanding individual effort, cutting across the offensive zone, skating almost to the goal line, and roofing a backhander from a sharp angle on Spencer Knight for his third point of the night.

“Magic from Connor,” indeed, who ended the season with a team-leading 39 goals.

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