{"id":324606,"date":"2025-12-04T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324606\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:11:12","slug":"jets-connor-hellebuyck-nears-return-following-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324606\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets&#8217; Connor Hellebuyck nears return following knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/connor-hellebuyck\/416485a7-f978-4189-8d7e-c2a55b823d3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Connor Hellebuyck<\/a>\u2019s time on the injured list is coming to an end, head coach Scott Arniel announced Wednesday, as the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"winnipeg-jets\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/winnipeg-jets\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> goalie nears a return to the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Although no timeline has been set for his comeback, Arniel is hopeful to see Hellebuyck between the pipes as soon as possible with Winnipeg struggling during his absence.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets have lost four of the seven they\u2019ve played without him and have conceded three or more goals in five of those games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 fifth-round pick had arthroscopic knee surgery on Nov. 22 to address an injury that had been bothering him since training camp, and was expected to miss four to six weeks. He last played on Nov. 15 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/vilardi-nets-shootout-winner-as-jets-beat-flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">4-3 win against the Calgary Flames<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year Hellebuyck won both the Hart Trophy, as the NHL MVP, and the Vezina Trophy, as the best goaltender in the league, and helped his side get to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs after winning the Presidents\u2019 Trophy with 116 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heading into surgery, Hellebuyck was 8-6-0 with a 2.51 goals-against average and a .913 save percentage across 14 games.<\/p>\n<p>He has not been named to the American roster for the Olympics, but is expected to return before the hockey competition starts Feb. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Hellebuyck\u2019s time on the injured list is coming to an end, head coach Scott Arniel announced Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-324606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}