{"id":841147,"date":"2026-09-09T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841147\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:12:09","slug":"hellebuyck-trade-speculation-not-worth-our-time-jets-captain-lowry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841147\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellebuyck trade speculation \u2018not worth our time,\u2019 Jets captain Lowry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff said on June 26 he was listening to trade offers for Hellebuyck, but he did not provide a definitive answer as to whether his franchise goalie requested a trade. All of this happened after Winnipeg went 35-35-12 and finished eight points behind the Los Angeles Kings for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck has played his entire 11-season NHL career with the Jets, who selected him in the fifth round (No. 130) of the 2012 NHL Draft. Since entering the League during the 2015-16 season, he leads all goalies in games played (625), starts (615) and shutouts (45), and ranks second in wins (345) behind Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning (363).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Helle\u2019s\u2019 a good friend of ours, so it&#8217;s not something that we think is going to really impact the room,\u201d Lowry said. \u201cIt&#8217;s not going to create a big divide. It&#8217;s a personal decision that he&#8217;s made and one that he thinks is best for his family, and until that situation\u2019s resolved we&#8217;re just going to approach it \u2026 he\u2019s our teammate, he&#8217;s our friend and go from there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all got to worry about our own game &#8212; the team game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck was 23-23-11 with a 2.86 goals-against average and .895 save percentage in 57 games last season. Winnipeg signed goalie Stuart Skinner as a free agent on July 1, presumably to serve as Hellebuyck\u2019s backup. Skinner finished last season with the Pittsburgh Penguins after being traded by the Edmonton Oilers on Dec. 12. He helped the Oilers reach the Stanley Cup Final the previous two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting to skate with Stu a bit in the summertime, (and) I think in talking to (Jets goalie coach Wade Flaherty) and stuff, (Skinner) has been a guy that (Flaherty) has had a lot of praise for and really believes in his game and really thinks he can help him,\u201d Lowry said. \u201cKind of leading the Oilers to two Stanley Cup Finals, he&#8217;s a really proven winner in this league and he will be a great compliment to whether it&#8217;s \u2018Helle\u2019 or someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dylan-demelo-8476331\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan DeMelo<\/a>, a Jets\u00a0defenseman and Hellebuyck\u2019s teammate the past seven seasons, said the latter\u2019s trade request is \u201ca hard situation overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never been a part of something like this; it\u2019s all new to all of us,\u201d DeMelo said. \u201cI think we\u2019re just going to cross that bridge when we get there. We just hope at the end of the day he\u2019s happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough, and when you kind of have equity with him, you\u2019ve played with him, you\u2019ve been in playoff series and games and all that stuff with him \u2026 for me individually, it\u2019s kind of an extra wrinkle because we are friends. Our wives are friends, we have kids the same age. Our kids were playing hockey together and doing all this stuff, horsing around in the room and all these things. He is a friend, first and foremost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg plays its season opener at home against the Boston Bruins on Oct. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff said on June 26 he was listening to trade offers for Hellebuyck, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-841147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}