{"id":29657,"date":"2018-07-12T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=29657"},"modified":"2018-07-12T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:37:03","slug":"connor-hellebuyck-re-signs-with-the-winnipeg-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/07\/12\/connor-hellebuyck-re-signs-with-the-winnipeg-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Hellebuyck Re-Signs with the Winnipeg Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_self\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> have re-signed restricted\u00a0free agent goalie <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/helleco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor Hellebuyck<\/a><\/strong> to a six-year contract worth $37 million.\u00a0The deal carries a $6.167 million per season AAV. This contract carries him through the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLJets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLJets<\/a> have agreed to terms with goaltender Connor Hellebuyck on a six-year, $37M contract ($6.167M AAV). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5SBLYimrNM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/5SBLYimrNM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winnipeg Jets (@NHLJets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLJets\/status\/1017405253099012096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Connor Hellebuyck Signs With the Winnipeg Jets<\/h1>\n<p>Connor Hellebuyck\u00a0has spent his entire three-year career with the Winnipeg Jets\u00a0in the Central Division. He has only played in 149 career NHL regular season games\u00a0and 17 career\u00a0Stanley Cup\u00a0Playoff games. All of those games came\u00a0during this past post-season, as he led the Jets to the Western Conference Final, where they would fall to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>. He was originally drafted in the fifth round, 130th\u00a0overall of the 2012\u00a0NHL draft by Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Hellebuyck played 67 games, going 44-11-9 with\u00a0a 2.36\u00a0goals against average (GAA) and a save percentage of .924. This is up from his 2016-17 season, where Hellebuyck went 26-19-4 with a 2.89 GAA and .907 save percentage in 56 games. Hellebuyck&#8217;s calm and cool demeanour helped lead the Jets to the second-best record in the NHL. Hellybuyck&#8217;s strong play continued into the playoffs. Connor started all 17 playoff games for Winnipeg, finishing in the third round with nine wins and a 2.36 GAA and a save percentage of 0.922.<\/p>\n<h2>What this Means<\/h2>\n<p>Last summer, it was expected that Hellebuyck would face a challenge from <strong>Steve Mason\u00a0<\/strong>for the Jets starting job. He quickly proved to be the team&#8217;s top goaltender, and proved himself one of the top goalies in the league, being nominated for the Vezina Trophy. The Jets essentially handed the net completely over to Hellebuyck when they <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2018\/06\/30\/montreal-canadiens-acquire-joel-armia-and-steve-mason\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">traded<\/a> Mason to Montreal on June 30th. Hellebuyck, 25, is emerging as a solid young starter. He is in the right age group to grow with the rest of the young Jets team, as they emerge as Stanley Cup Contenders and try to fulfill their promise over the next several seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"BHI_TrTsSSN-SoZnYeWLfQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/960613320\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'BHI_TrTsSSN-SoZnYeWLfQ',sig:'Tnkut_TZQbgEKRK2ZlLv4YvmfzV-hjhivL5Jm14S-zM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'960613320',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winnipeg Jets have re-signed restricted\u00a0free agent goalie Connor Hellebuyck to a six-year contract worth $37 million.\u00a0The deal carries a $6.167 million per season AAV. This contract carries him through the 2023-24 season. #NHLJets have agreed to terms with goaltender Connor Hellebuyck on a six-year, $37M contract ($6.167M AAV). pic.twitter.com\/5SBLYimrNM \u2014 Winnipeg Jets (@NHLJets) July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2462,"featured_media":29671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2,33],"tags":[359,357],"class_list":["post-29657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-jets","tag-connor-hellebuyck","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}