{"id":314095,"date":"2025-11-28T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314095\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:19:05","slug":"jets-not-looking-for-goalie-help-in-connor-hellebuycks-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314095\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Not Looking For Goalie Help In Connor Hellebuyck\u2019s Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jets find themselves in a tough situation with star goaltender Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> out for several more weeks.\u00a0 In the meantime, they\u2019ve only won one of four games without him and as a result, they now sit sixth in the Central Division and outside a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

However, it doesn\u2019t appear that Winnipeg will be looking for some short-term help.\u00a0 In the latest TSN Insider Trading segment<\/a>, The Athletic\u2019s Chris Johnston reported that the Jets aren\u2019t shopping for a netminder.\u00a0 Instead, they\u2019re content going with backup Eric Comrie<\/a> and prospect Thomas Milic<\/a> until the back-to-back Vezina winner returns.<\/p>\n

Comrie, a pending unrestricted free agent, had a great return season in 2024-25, posting a strong 2.39 GAA with a .914 SV%, his best numbers since his last year in Winnipeg in the 2021-22 campaign.\u00a0 Things haven\u2019t gone as well this season, however, as those marks check in at 3.02 and .897 respectively, a little below league average through his first eight appearances.\u00a0 Still, he has shown enough over his stints with the Jets to warrant some trust to try to get them through this stretch.<\/p>\n

As for Milic, he\u2019s in his third professional season after splitting time between AHL Manitoba and ECHL Norfolk in an effort to get him as much game action as possible; he logged 90 games between the two leagues over the last two seasons.\u00a0 This year, he was off to a strong start with the Moose before being recalled as he had a 2.14 GAA and a .921 SV% in nine outings.<\/p>\n

With Winnipeg starting a back-to-back road set on Friday, it seems likely that Milic will make his NHL debut in the near future.\u00a0 If he does well, that would go a long way toward giving GM Kevin Cheveldayoff the confidence to stay the course while waiting for Hellebuyck to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets find themselves in a tough situation with star goaltender Connor Hellebuyck out for several more weeks.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,177729,575,85,177730,6000],"class_list":{"0":"post-314095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-eric-comrie","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-thomas-milic","14":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}