Posts About "Connor Hellebuyck"
Hellebuyck Well-Deserving of Vezina Victory
September 22nd, 2020 Connor Hellebuyck's superb season rightly culminated in a Vezina Trophy victory at the 2020 NHL Awards aired live from Edmonton. https://twitter.com/NHLJets/status/1308175259300818945 Hellebuyck received 19 first-place votes and a total of 123 points — 24 more than the Boston Bruins' Tuukka Rask's 99 and 92 more than the Tampa...
Jets' Hellebuyck Wins Vezina Trophy
September 21st, 2020 The NHL announced on Monday evening that the 2019-20 Vezina Trophy, awarded each year to the league's top goaltender, would go to Connor Hellebuyck of the Winnipeg Jets. Hellebuyck, 27, is the first Jets netminder to win the award, and the first Vezina Trophy winner representing a Canadian team since Carey Price won for the 2014-15...
3 Best Jets From the 2019-20 Season
September 11th, 2020 When looking back at the 2019-20 campaign, what will Winnipeg Jets fans remember the most? Would it be the memory of Mark Scheifele writhing in pain after a scary hit from Matthew Tkachuk? Would it be the mysterious disappearance of Dustin Byfuglien? Or would it be the seemingly endless trend of injuries? Related: The Dale Hawerchuk...
Jets' Brief, Disappointing Playoffs Filled with "What Ifs?"
August 8th, 2020 Well... that certainly wasn't worth the wait. After four-and-a-half months of waiting for the NHL to resume from its COVID-19 season suspension, and a ton of hype from many media outlets on how the Winnipeg Jets could be a sleeper team in the 24-team playoff format and turn some heads with a deep run, they weren't and they didn't....
4 Takeaways from Jets' Season-Ending Loss
August 8th, 2020 Less than 48 hours after being pushed to the brink of elimination, the Winnipeg Jets took to the ice in a do-or-die Game 4. Still without the likes of Mark Scheifele, Patrik Laine, and Mason Appleton, the Jets needed a repeat performance of Game 2 if they had any hopes of forcing a decisive Game 5. A Bryan Little screen attempt...
Winnipeg Jets News & Rumors: Hellebuyck, Power Play, Laine & Morrissey
July 22nd, 2020 The Winnipeg Jets will face the Calgary Flames in the qualifying round, with the best-of-five series set to start on Aug. 1. The word from the Jets’ camp is head coach Paul Maurice was pleased with the work that his team put in. Although the Jets didn’t practice their special teams during their first week of training camp,...
3 Jets to Watch in the 2020 Playoffs
July 18th, 2020 After a four-and-a-half month hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Winnipeg Jets will return to the ice on Aug. 1 to participate in a summer hockey extravaganza the likes of which no one has ever seen or will ever see again. Related: NHL Announces 24-Team Playoff Format The five-game play-in series between the Jets and...
Ranking the NHL's Starting Goaltenders in the 2020 Playoffs
June 16th, 2020 At long last, NHL training camps are just around the corner and players are starting to return to the ice. With July 10 as the set date right now, the play-in and round-robin series should be starting at the beginning of August and hockey will officially be back on our televisions. As we all know there are many factors in winning a...
Jets' 5 Greatest U.S.-born Players
June 15th, 2020 The NHL awarded its first Vezina Trophy, honoring the league's top regular-season goalie, in 1926-27. Since then, only six U.S.-born netminders have earned the award. As you know, Connor Hellebuyck is poised to become the first in Jets' history to win the Vezina, and first U.S.-native to do so since 2011, when Boston's Tim Thomas won...
Should Jets Re-Sign Brossoit?
May 5th, 2020 Who the Winnipeg Jets' number-one goaltender will be in the seasons to come is not a question. Connor Hellebuyck is inked to a long-term deal and his outstanding play singlehandedly kept the team in countless games this season. The 26-year-old is just entering the prime of his career, looks to be a perennial All-Star candidate, and...
Winnipeg Jets News & Rumors: Hawerchuk, Byfuglien & Hellebuyck
April 21st, 2020 With the NHL’s season suspended in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, obviously there’s no on-ice news to report for any teams. However, a fair bit of “action” is going on behind the scenes within each organization and with the players. In my News & Rumors reports, I will try to report on some of that news so we can stay...
Canucks Need Markstrom but Not at Any Cost
April 11th, 2020 Objectively speaking, the Vancouver Canucks need No. 1 goaltender Jacob Markstrom. What’s open to debate is the degree to which they need the pending unrestricted free agent. Markstrom vs. Luongo Over the last few seasons, Markstrom has emerged as a legitimate starter in this league, which must frustrate the Florida Panthers to...
Jets' Top Five Games of 2020
April 7th, 2020 The Winnipeg Jets certainly faced a lot of adversity in the 2019-20 NHL season, and when they overcame that adversity, it was often quite exciting. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to rob us of the Jets' last 11 contests, which were bound to be electric as the team was in the thick of the Western Conference wild card...
