{"id":919799,"date":"2026-10-04T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919799\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:00:08","slug":"could-a-strong-start-for-jets-change-situation-with-connor-hellebuyck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919799\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a strong start for Jets change situation with Connor Hellebuyck?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winnipeg Jets\u2019<\/a> 2026-27 season may be underway, but their former Hart Trophy-winning netminder remains on the sidelines. <\/p>\n

Connor Hellebuyck is suspended indefinitely for not reporting to Jets\u2019 training camp. The three-time Vezina Trophy winner requested a trade from the club after the 2025-26 campaign, then made the request pubic late in the offseason after the team wasn\u2019t able to make a deal. <\/p>\n

On Friday\u2019s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender are joined by The Fourth Period\u2019s David Pagnotta<\/a> to discuss the Hellebuyck situation and what may happen if Winnipeg finds early success without their franchise netminder. <\/p>\n

Tyler Yaremchuk: I really wanna see the Jets do well in the first two weeks. What if Stuart Skinner and Clay Stevenson look good? They\u2019re both under 30 and the Jets say \u201chey, that may be our goaltending duo.\u201d Let\u2019s say Winnipeg starts 5-2-1 and maybe they go, \u201cf\u2013k \u2019em, we\u2019ll trade them wherever and get futures and use those futures at the Trade Deadline and away we go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Could the Jets doing well change their view of what they need for Hellebuyck?<\/p>\n

David Pagnotta: Definitely. The mandate has been similar to Kirill Marchenko with the Columbus Blue Jackets, before he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was Don Waddell saying: \u201cWe\u2019re not trading him for futures. We need somebody now.\u201d Now they moved out a first-line guy and brought in a first-line guy. <\/p>\n

In Winnipeg, they\u2019ll take some futures, but the primary pieces they want back are to help this team immediately. Whether it\u2019s two forwards or a forward and a defenseman, whatever it ends up being, along with whatever\u2019s included, that\u2019s what they\u2019ve looked for. <\/p>\n

If they get off to a hot start, it does change things to a degree. I still think they\u2019ll want to enhance their club and give them the best opportunity to succeed, and yes, in theory, you can collect future assets, package them up and move them to different environments. But it basically opens up the options for Winnipeg, significantly, if this team gets off to a really hot start in the first five-to-10 games. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s assuming Hellebuyck isn\u2019t deal with in that time period. But they\u2019ve held firm, they\u2019re waiting. <\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets\u2019 2026-27 season may be underway, but their former Hart Trophy-winning netminder remains on the sidelines.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-919799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919799","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=919799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}