The Manitoba Moose comes from their worst season in franchise history. They went 25-41-3-3, ended for the first time since then in their division Their 1997-98 seasonAnd ended for the first time in their conference ever in 2024-25.
However, that does not mean that they are worth seeing in 2025-26. There are a number of promising Jets’ prospects that start or continue their career at the American Hockey League (AHL) Club to keep an eye on, in addition to a new player who has enlightened the competition in recent seasons.
** Note: We do not include Nikita Chibrikov or Brad Lambert on this list, because both have a good chance to make the opening night schedule of the jets/is not at the moose most of the season.
Colby Barlow
The left wing player was a bit of a Disvice last season by the NHL/CHL agreement with which no one can leave the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League of Western Hockey League (WHL), unless she is 20 years old in Juniors.
Spending 2024-25 With the Moose-Waar he played three games in 2023-24 on an amateur-tryout agreement-Zou probably had been better for his development than a fourth season in juniors, but now that he is 20, he can get to the Moose full-time.
The 18th Pick of 2023 came last season with a slow start with the Oshawa General of the OHL, He took over from the North Bay Battalion In a blockbuster at the beginning of October and was omitted from the Selection of World Junior Championships (WJC) in Canada as a result of his disappointing game.
However, he really picked it up in the new year to end his junior career on a positive note, to score 32 goals and add 29 assists for 61 points in 62 games to finish fourth in scoring teams. He continued his strong game in the late season and helped the generals to provide the championship series by achieving 14 goals and 19 assists for 33 points in 21 games.
Although he never succeeded in his 46 goal, 79-point 2022-23, who played a major role in the jets that set him up as high as side and although his stock in some may have fallen in some, Barlow still has a bad shot, adulthood, adulthood and leadership skills that he built in the pleats in the pleats. See how he works hard to continue his momentum.
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Although it was a 20-year-old rookie, Divintentiis was the best of the four Moose goalkeepers who saw action last season. He took on the role of the starter from February because of the struggles of Kaapo Kahkonen and Thomas Milic, and seems ready for the role of the starter – or at least a large part of the starts – in his second season.
The seventh Rounder of 2022 placed a record of 13-12-2-2-2-2-220, 2.84 goals against average (GAA) EN .906 SAVE percentage (SV%) while recording his first professional shutout in the last match of the Moose on 19 April in a 1-0 win over the Texas Stars.
Now 21 and with a year of professional hockey under his belt, Divincentiis will seem to be more consistent and also stay with the Moose all season instead of bouncing between them and the Echl’s Norfolk Admirals, where he had three separate stints. He should have a better defensive game for him that a season since the team added a number of older players with a lot of AHL experience in Kale Clague, Phil di Guiseppe, Walker Duehr, Samuel Fagemo and Ethan Frisch.
Although not the biggest goalkeeper there is on 6-foot-2 and 194 pounds, Divincentiis is an athletic and agile man who is already technically healthy. If his progression continues, he could become a viable NHL -target defender in just a few seasons.
Samuel Fagemo
The Swedish left wing player, signed with a one -year contract, scores in the AHL apparently as desired. The 25-year-old, originally selected 50th General by De Los Angeles Kings in 2019, has poured 29 goals and added 17 assists for the Ontario Reign last season, had a striking 43 goals in just 50 games for them in 2023-24, and has completed 132 goals and 70 assists for 202 points in 268 career. No AHL player has more goals than he since he joined the competition in 2021.
Fagemo has not produced much in its limited NHL opportunities with only three goals and one assist in 21-career games between the Kings and Nashville Predators. However, he should offer a huge boost for a Moose Club that ended last season last season in the competition in the competition with 169 (2.34 per match) and was excluded seven times.
Parker Ford
The unsigned 24-year-old, who again signed a two-year-old deal this summer, was one of the more productive players of the Moose when 14 goals scored in the line-up last season and added seven assists for 21 points in 41 games. He set 18 goals and 23 assists for 41 points in 72 games in his Rookie Professional 2022-23 season from Providence College.
De Gruizige attacker made his NHL debut against the Boston Bruins on January 30 and scored a goal in the third period of a 6-2 routes. It was his first of three games with the jets before he was sent back.
Unfortunately, he ran an injury on the upper body at the end of February while he played with the moose, so he missed the rest of the season. Although he will be one of the players who is insisting on a full-time NHL spot this season, the time he lost due to injury and the fact that he will fight against Chibrikov and Lambert for that Big-League work, it is more likely that he will at least start the moose with the moose.
A hard-working, hard-working, energetic man who is a great net front, one can depend on Ford to have every game in the middle of things. He will be the key on the top six of the Moose and special teams and will be a good Bottom-Six call-up option for the jets when injuries occur inevitably.
Brayden Yager
Just like Barlow, Brayden Yager Pro becomes a decorated junior career. Yager, who acquired the jets last summer of the Pittsburgh Penguins for dissatisfied 2022 First Rounder Rutger McGroarty, was unmistakably one of the most important players of the Western Hockey League, last season, with a cool 82 points (25 goals, 57 assists) in just 54 matches. He added eight goals and six assists for 14 points in 16 Playoff matches and also repeated as the CHLs Sports -Manse Player of the Year.
The 14th Pick 2023 has leadership experience because he served as captain of Warriors before it was before it was it traded on the hurricanes At the beginning of December and also captain of Canada’s team on the WJC 2025.
“The thing that jumps on you about Yager’s game is his chance and his willingness to use it,” Thw’s Devin wrote Little in a prospect profile. “He has a quick release and hits his target with deadly accuracy … His shot does not compete with the best target greeders in the world, but it is dangerous enough that he could develop into a 30 goal scorer in the NHL on his peak.”
While he notes that his game game is simple, little added: “He knows how to identify the simple Games that own and lead to scoring opportunities. In other words, he is more a finisher than a facilitator, but he is more than able to be the ‘tic’ or ‘tac’ in a tic-tac tussy.”
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Although a natural center is a good chance that it can be used for his Rookie season on the wing with the moose, because Wing bears less responsibility than the center (similar to Cole Perfetti and Lambert in the past.) The moose will hope that he will have a smooth transition to the pro -ranks and that he can offer a new offensive blow.
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