{"id":344091,"date":"2025-12-14T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344091\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:52:10","slug":"jets-activate-connor-hellebuyck-off-ir-starts-vs-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344091\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets activate Connor Hellebuyck off IR, starts vs. Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning Vezina and Hart Trophy winner is officially back.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old makes his return to the ice just three weeks after being sidelined due to arthroscopic knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck enters Saturday&#8217;s matchup with a .913 save percentage and 2.51 GAA through 14 appearances this season. He last played on Nov. 15 in a shootout win against Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time all-star holds a .918 save percentage and 2.56 GAA over 582 career games.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg will hope the star netminder&#8217;s return can help turn around its season, as the Jets are currently seventh in the Central Division with a 14-15-1 record.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the game Saturday on Sportsnet or Sportsnet+ at 7 p.m. ET \/ 6 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reigning Vezina and Hart Trophy winner is officially back. The 32-year-old makes his return to the ice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-344091","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\/344091","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=344091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}