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Defencemen Logan Stanley and Luke Schenn are Winnipeg Jets no more.
Long-rumoured to be on the trading block, Stanley was shuffled off to the Buffalo Sabres in an NHL trade deadline deal Thursday, along with Schenn.
The pair were were late scratches in Winnipeg’s game Thursday evening against the Tampa Bay Lightning. They were dealt a couple hours after the game, a 4-1 victory for the Jets.
In return, the Jets receive defenceman Jacob Bryson and forward Isak Rosén from Buffalo, along with a second-round pick in the 2027 NHL draft, and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2026 draft.
The Jets retain 50 per cent of Schenn’s contract as part of the trade.
Bryson, 28, has played 35 games for the Sabres this season and has two goals and three assists, along with eight penalty minutes.
A fourth-round pick (99th overall) by the Sabres in the 2017 draft, he has appeared in 289 games for Buffalo and has six goals, and 42 assists, and 58 penalty minutes.
Rosén, 22, has three goals and four assist in 16 games for Buffalo this season, which has been split between the Sabres and their AHL affiliate Rochester Americans.
He leads the Americans in goals (25) and also has 18 assists, to put him second overall in total points.
The Sabres’ first-round pick (14th overall) in the 2021 draft, Rosén has three goals and five assists in 31 games for the Sabres.
Stanley, 27, was Winnipeg’s first-round pick (18th overall) in the 2016 draft and is having his best year as a pro, setting new career highs for points (21), goals (9), and penalty minutes (99).
He has played 261 games for the Jets and has 57 points (14 goals, 43 assists) and 304 penalty minutes.
Schenn, 36, has one goal and six assists for Winnipeg this season. He has played 1,118 games with nine teams in his NHL career and posted 212 points (45 goals, 167 assists) and 884 penalty minutes.
A first-round pick (fifth overall) by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2008 draft,  Schenn won a pair of Stanley Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
He was traded to Winnipeg in March 2025 by the Pittsburgh Penguins, who had acquired him just two days earlier in another trade deal.
The NHL’s 2026 trade deadline is 2 p.m. CT Friday.
It’s not just the player getting traded, it’s the family.– Jets captain Adam Lowry
Still several points out of a playoff spot, creating the outside expectation that the organization will be sellers this time around, the room is trying to balance the human toll with the task at hand.
“Obviously this year we’re on the outside looking in. But I think the biggest thing is guys in this locker room want to support the guys where there’s a lot of uncertainty,” Jets captain Adam Lowry said before Thursday’s game.
The business side of hockey is glaring in the final hours of the trade deadline. Friendships built over years are suddenly put on hold, replaced by the harsh reality that several players may have worn a Jets jersey for the final time.
“From a personal side, it’s tough,” Lowry said. “You have guys uprooting their families. There’s a lot of things that go on behind the scenes. It’s not just the player getting traded, it’s the family.”
Winnipeg’s list of pending unrestricted free agents is crowded. It includes defenceman Colin Miller, alongside forwards Gustav Nyquist, Tanner Pearson, Cole Koepke and veteran Jonathan Toews, who controls his own destiny with a full no-move clause.
