Winnipeg Jets’ goaltender Connor Hellebuyck is the runaway early favorite to win the 2025 Vezina Trophy in a quarter-mark NHL.com writers ballot.
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15 NHL.com writers forged their votes on a 5-4-3-2-1 level foundation and Hellebuyck got here out on prime by a longshot to win the award because the league’s greatest goaltender with 75 factors. The Minnesota Wild’s Filip Gustavsson (36 factors,) New York Rangers’ Igor Shesterkin (32 factors,) Toronto Maple Leafs’ Anthony Stolarz (23 factors,) and Dallas Stars’ Jake Oettinger rounded out the highest 5.
The Vezina is awarded yearly by a vote of NHL normal managers.
Hellebuyck Distinctive Thus Far in Vezina-Defence Season
Hellebuyck has been nothing lower than distinctive to date this season and is an enormous cause the Jets are first in all the NHL with a 16-3-0 report. He’s contemporary off successful the 2024 Vezina Trophy — the second of his profession — along with the 2024 William M. Jennings Trophy and is within the first 12 months of a seven-year contract extension he inked a 12 months in the past.
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The 31 12 months previous has a 13-2-0 report, 2.20 targets in opposition to common, .923 save share, three shutouts, and 9.7 targets saved above anticipated. He additionally set a Winnipeg Jets/Atlanta Thrashers franchise report for longest shutout streak at 191:47.
After permitting a purpose within the third interval to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Dec. 3, he posted back-to-back shutouts in opposition to the Utah Hockey Membership on Nov. 5 and the Colorado Avalanche on Nov. 7 and solely allowed a purpose very late into the third interval in opposition to the Dallas Stars on Nov. 9.
“He’s making unbelievable saves and … making these large defensive performs like that, it goes a good distance,” Jets ahead Alex Iafallo informed NHL.com. “He pushes us ahead. I feel he’s having a hell of a begin, and he’s obtained to maintain it going. It’s fairly enjoyable to look at.”
If Hellebuyck have been to win the 2025 Vezina, he’d be the primary back-to-back winner since Martin Brodeur, who captured the ultimate two of his 4 in 2007 and 2008.
Hellebuyck and the Jets are again in motion on Friday, Nov. 22 once they tackle the Pittsburgh Penguins to start a six-game highway journey. The Jets are coming off a bounce-back 6-3 win over the Florida Panthers at Canada Life Centre on Tuesday.
