Kyle Connor

Kyle Connor

28-Year-Old Left WingLW
Winnipeg Jets
2025 Fantasy Outlook
After being limited to 65 regular-season appearances in 2023-24 due to a knee injury, Connor skated in 82 games during the 2024-25 regular season. He was one of only eight NHL players to surpass the 40-goal plateau, and he finished seventh in the league with a career-high 97 points. Connor also ranked eighth with 267 shots on goal. Since the 2017-18 campaign, he has the eighth-most goals on the 10th-most shots in the league. He earned 28 power-play points last season, marking the third time in four years that he has recorded at least 28 points with the man advantage. Connor is a high-volume shooter with 40-goal, 90-point upside heading into the 2025-26 season, but he won’t provide additional fantasy value in other categories. Read Past Outlooks
Signed an eight-year, $96 million contract extension with the Jets in October of 2025.
Inks eight-year deal
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October 8, 2025
Connor agreed to terms on an eight-year, $96 million contract extension with Winnipeg on Wednesday, Ken Wiebe of The Winnipeg Free Press reports.
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According to Wiebe, Connor's new deal is the largest in franchise history, a fact that may have been influenced by the team's decision to watch Nikolaj Ehlers walk in free agency this past offseason. After crashing out of the playoffs last year, the Jets will no doubt be eager to make a longer run and should be buyers at the trade deadline -- though with Connor under contract long term, the team won't need to worry about its first line for a while.
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A knee injury limited Connor in 2023-24, but he was still effective when healthy, providing 34 goals and 61 points across 65 contests. Connor has only crossed the 40-goal milestone once in his career, so the 27-year-old might not jump out at you as one of the league's premier goal scorers, but he ranks eighth over the past five campaigns with 176 tallies in 353 games thanks to his consistency. Except for the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 campaign and his 20-game 2016-17 rookie season, Connor has surpassed the 30-goal milestone in every season of his career. He's been a decent playmaker too, resulting in him surpassing the 70-point mark on three occasions over his career, and he likely would have done it for the fourth time last year had he stayed healthy. There's better out there, but Connor being a safe bet to score at least 30 goals certainly counts for something.
Part of Connor's trouble in 2022-23 was more symptomatic of the Jets' flaws as a team. Things didn't work in head coach Rick Bowness's first year with Winnipeg, with lots of shuffling in the top six. Still, even in a down year, Connor had 31 goals, 49 assists and 29 power-play points while remaining one of the team's most dynamic forwards. There's room for optimism with Connor heading into 2023-24 -- he shot 11.4 percent last year, his lowest mark since becoming a full-timer. He's also still just 26 years old and has a proven track record of 30-goal talent without sacrificing playmaking. The Jets are increasingly Connor's show to star in, and it's safe to assume he'll return solid value as a top-50 overall player this year.
Winnipeg was of one the NHL's greatest disappointments last year, but the team's struggles didn't impact Connor in the least, as the speedster broke out to the tune of career-best marks in goals (47), assists (46), points (93), and shots on goal (317). Connor's 28 points with the man advantage were particularly encouraging, as additional power-play production only serves to enhance his already immensely high floor. It's scary to think what Connor's potential might be if the Jets are able to get some bounce-back performances from the likes of Mark Scheifele and Blake Wheeler. Either way, Connor, who will turn 26 in December, should produce at a high level.
Equal parts scorer and playmaker, Connor provides a balanced scoring approach at left wing. He produced 26 goals, 24 assists and 166 shots on net in 56 contests last season, taking only a marginal step back on his scoring pace. The Michigan native has never shot lower than 15 percent in a full NHL campaign, and he's virtually guaranteed top-six minutes and first-unit power-play time with the Jets. The 24-year-old has room to grow heading into the 2021-22 season, and there's a good chance he could challenge for his first 80-point season if all goes well. He won't provide much physicality, but the offense alone is worth an early-to-middle round pick.
While more prominent names like Mark Scheifele, Blake Wheeler and Patrik Laine may garner most of the Jets attention when it comes to fantasy drafts, it's actually Connor who leads the team in goals over the last three seasons with 103 in 229 appearances, including three straight 30-goal campaigns. In terms of his overall point total over that stretch, the speedy winger still trails Scheifele and Wheeler, but he's closing in on Laine in terms of pure fantasy value at this point. If there's a knock on Connor's game, it's the fact that only 17 of his 73 points last season were scored with the man advantage, despite averaging 3:18 of power-play ice time, primarily with the No. 1 unit. Still, the goal-scoring youngster could be in line to reach both the 40-goal and 80-point thresholds in 2020-21, assuming the league plays a full 82-game season.
After a breakout 2017-18 campaign, there was some speculation that Connor may have been a flash in the pan or a beneficiary of circumstance playing with elite talents Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele. However, the youngster carried his own again last year, once again topping the 30-goal mark while frequently slotted into a second-line role away from the Jets' superstars. The speedy winger figures to slot into the first line again to start the season and is a lock for the No. 1 power play, and any demotion to another line will probably be related to jumpstarting other players and not about Connor himself. If he continues to grow in his development, a 40-goal campaign is certainly not out of the question heading into 2019-20.
Connor's first full season in the NHL was a resounding success, as the dynamic winger ranked 27th (tied with four others) in league scoring with 31 goals complementing 26 assists and 11 power-play points to cap off the 2017-18 regular season. The Michigan native's rate of offensive production tapered off a bit in the playoffs (0.58 points per game), but it should be known that he's only 21 years old with plenty of room to grow on a lethal top line that also features Blake Wheeler and Patrik Laine -- those two had 161 points between them last year. While there's no doubt that Connor will have plenty of fanfare in the fantasy realm after finishing fourth in the Calder Trophy voting, it's conceivable that as many as five Jets could be drafted ahead of him based on experience level alone which renders the young sniper a true bargain.
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Records helper in loss
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May 17, 2025
Connor notched an assist and four shots on goal in Saturday's 2-1 overtime loss to the Stars in Game 6.
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Supplies pair of assists
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May 15, 2025
Connor logged two assists, including one on the power play, and three shots on goal in Thursday's 4-0 win over the Stars in Game 5.
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Garners helper in Game 4 loss
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May 13, 2025
Connor provided an assist and four shots on goal in Tuesday's 3-1 loss to the Stars in Game 4.
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Back on scoresheet in Game 3
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May 11, 2025
Connor netted a goal on a game-high six shots and doled out two hits in Sunday's 5-2 loss to the Stars in Game 3.
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Supplies trio of assists
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May 4, 2025
Connor recorded three assists and seven shots on goal in Sunday's 4-3 double-overtime win over the Blues in Game 7.
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Closing in on extension?
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October 7, 2025
Connor and the Jets are closing in on a long-term extension, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reports Tuesday.
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The Jets open their 2025-26 campaign Thursday versus the Stars, and it sounds like there's a mutual interest in getting an extension done before that game. Connor is in the final season of a seven-year, $50 million deal, and it seems likely he'll get a raise from that number. Connor has exceeded 90 points in two of the last four years and has been better than a point-per-game pace in three of the first six seasons on his current contract. At 28 years old, he should still have a handful of years of high-end production to go.
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