{"id":763690,"date":"2026-06-27T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763690\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:34:10","slug":"sabres-discussing-deal-for-jets-star-goalie-connor-hellebuyck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763690\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres discussing deal for Jets star goalie Connor Hellebuyck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> be trying to make a huge move in net at a hometown draft?<\/p>\n

The Sabres are believed to have talked with the Winnipeg Jets<\/a> about the possibility of acquiring star goaltender Connor Hellebuyck<\/a>, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported Friday at the NHL Draft in Buffalo.<\/p>\n

“Earlier today it\u2019s believed the Sabres and the Winnipeg Jets had some talks about Connor Hellebuyck,” Friedman said. “I do believe Hellebuyck would have been willing to waive (his no-movement clause) to go to Buffalo, but at this point in time that appears to have stalled. We\u2019ll see if that picks up again.”<\/p>\n

Hellebuyck has five years left on a seven-year contract that carries an annual average value of $8.5 million.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old Michigan native expressed frustration with how things unfolded with the Jets last season in his end-of-year press conference.<\/p>\n

Hellebuyck, who helped Team USA capture Olympic gold this year, is a three-time Vezina Trophy winner as the NHL’s top goaltender.<\/p>\n

The Sabres, who snapped a 14-year playoff drought this year by winning the Atlantic Division, used Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and Alex Lyon in net most of the season.<\/p>\n

Buffalo acquired the No. 4 pick in Friday’s draft in a deal with the Chicago Blackhawks for defenceman Bowen Byram earlier this week. Buffalo used the pick to select defenceman Daxon Rudolph from the WHL’s Prince Albert Raiders.<\/p>\n

The Sabres also have the No. 20 selection in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could the Buffalo Sabres be trying to make a huge move in net at a hometown draft? The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-763690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763690","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=763690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}