{"id":616403,"date":"2026-04-19T04:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:21:08","slug":"hellebuyck-trocheck-zub-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616403\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellebuyck, Trocheck, Zub \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murat Ates of The Athletic summarized<\/a> Connor Hellebuyck<\/a>\u2018s scathing review of the Winnipeg Jets 2025-26 season. Hellebuyck was highly critical of the team\u2019s effort throughout the year, saying, \u201cWhat we did this year was unacceptable. No one wants to be part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, he questioned the Jets\u2019 ability to bring in the necessary talent, saying, \u201cCan you get the pieces that you need? Will the players come? These are always questions that you have in Winnipeg. I\u2019ve made it my home and I like it here, but the majority of the league doesn\u2019t feel the same way.\u201d He went on to articulate that his only focus is on winning the Stanley Cup and has become frustrated with the lack of movement toward that goal in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Hellebuyck didn\u2019t leave any room for speculation, saying how much he loves the city and the organization, and only wishes for other players to see what he sees. Still, it\u2019s indicative of the situation the Jets are in regarding their location and the simple fact that the team has failed to acquire top-level talent in free agency.<\/p>\n

Although he silenced many of his doubters during his impressive run at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Hellebuyck has arguably been a key component in the Jets\u2019 failing to reach the Western Conference Final since 2018. In the last three years, Hellebuyck has managed an 8-15-0 record in 23 games, with a .870 SV% and 3.60. He became a radically different goalie than the one he is in the regular season, where he has a 56.1% win percentage and .916 SV% in 615 career starts.<\/p>\n

Additional notes from this evening:<\/p>\n

In his exit interview, New York Rangers center Vincent Trocheck<\/a> spoke at length about the injury that kept him out for the first 14 games of the season. Mollie Walker of the New York Post described<\/a> the injury, saying Trocheck had a lung infection that required surgery and a week-long stay in the hospital, where he was connected to chest tubes. Trocheck offered a quote to Walker, saying, \u201cI thought I was just having back spasms, and then I played the first game. Got a little bit worse. Played in Buffalo. I got a cross check right in that area, and whatever fluid was in there, it\u2019s like bubbles, and I guess the bubble burst and it spread. So then it just got a lot worse. I had a lot of fluid around my lung, so I had to have surgery to get the fluid removed.\u201c
\nAccording to Julian McKenzie of The Athletic<\/a>, the Ottawa Senators didn\u2019t provide any update to defenseman Artem Zub<\/a>\u2018s status after Game 1. Zub missed most of the contest due to injury, finishing with 7:44 of ice time, adding three hits. There\u2019s a relatively quick turnaround for Game 2, which takes place Monday, so more information will likely come closer to puck drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murat Ates of The Athletic summarized Connor Hellebuyck\u2018s scathing review of the Winnipeg Jets 2025-26 season. Hellebuyck was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[299187,64,63,240556,3617,575,6597,85,58370,6000],"class_list":{"0":"post-616403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-artem-zub","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","12":"tag-new-york-rangers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-ottawa-senators","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-vincent-trocheck","17":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616403","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=616403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}