went public with his trade request<\/a> via a post shared by his agent, Ray Petkau, on Aug. 27.<\/p>\nHellebuyck had attracted league-wide attention in his April exit interview for criticizing the Jets\u2019 failure to make the playoffs. The Jets came close to completing a trade with the Buffalo Sabres before the draft and, when that didn\u2019t come to fruition, signed goalie Stuart Skinner to a two-year contract.<\/p>\n
The latest on the Connor Hellebuyck trade saga<\/p>\n
Murat Ates and Sean McIndoe<\/p>\n
Why hasn\u2019t Connor Hellebuyck reported to training camp?<\/p>\n
Hellebuyck has yet to publicly clarify the reason he wants out of Winnipeg, but he expressed doubts at his exit interview about the Jets\u2019 ability to build a contender.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it\u2019s winning a Stanley Cup. That\u2019s my goal, and that\u2019s all I have left,\u201d Hellebuyck said. \u201cHow can I get that? How can I get there?\u201d<\/p>\n
Hellebuyck had previously expressed concern about the \u201cblowback\u201d his wife, Andrea, received on social media after Team USA\u2019s Olympic gold medal win and Hellebuyck\u2019s visit to the White House.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t understand how she can take so much heat for just being with me as a hockey player,\u201d Hellebuyck said in March. \u201cWe\u2019ve done nothing wrong, she\u2019s done nothing wrong, my kids have done nothing wrong, and everyone in my family is happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
In all cases, whether after the Olympics, during his exit interview or in his prepared statement in August, Hellebuyck has expressed appreciation for Jets fans and the city of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
What happens next?<\/p>\n
If Hellebuyck remains suspended when the regular season begins, he will forgo his $8.5 million salary until he\u2019s reinstated. His contract will not count against the Jets\u2019 salary cap while he is suspended.<\/p>\n
The only two resolutions are a trade or Hellebuyck changing his mind and returning to the Jets. His prepared statement in August left little room for the latter, so Winnipeg must continue to seek a trade in a difficult September market.<\/p>\n
Multiple teams are believed to have expressed interest during the summer, including Buffalo, the New Jersey Devils, the Carolina Hurricanes and the Utah Mammoth, but a trade does not appear imminent at this time.<\/p>\n
The Jets, meanwhile, need to acquire a goaltender to share the crease with Skinner. That player would ideally be part of a Hellebuyck trade return; failing that, the Jets will likely turn to the waiver wire as training camp continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 The Winnipeg Jets have suspended goaltender Connor Hellebuyck for failure to report to training camp, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,448,82,449],"class_list":["post-898774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898774","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=898774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}