This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Connor Hellebuyck
Winnipeg Jets Goaltender
Thirty-five goals better than the shots he faced — the largest goaltending edge in the league by seven and a half.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | WPG | 26 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 56 | 2.34 | 2 | 683 | .918 |
| 2016-17 | WPG | 56 | 26 | 19 | 4 | 146 | 2.89 | 4 | 1572 | .907 |
| 2017-18 | WPG | 67 | 44 | 11 | 9 | 156 | 2.36 | 6 | 2048 | .924 |
| 2018-19 | WPG | 63 | 34 | 23 | 3 | 179 | 2.90 | 2 | 2051 | .913 |
| 2019-20 | WPG | 58 | 31 | 21 | 5 | 140 | 2.57 | 6 | 1796 | .922 |
| 2020-21 | WPG | 45 | 24 | 17 | 3 | 112 | 2.58 | 4 | 1335 | .916 |
| 2021-22 | WPG | 66 | 29 | 27 | 10 | 193 | 2.97 | 4 | 2155 | .910 |
| 2022-23 | WPG | 64 | 37 | 25 | 2 | 157 | 2.49 | 4 | 1964 | .920 |
| 2023-24 | WPG | 60 | 37 | 19 | 4 | 142 | 2.39 | 5 | 1798 | .921 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 505 | 275 | 173 | 41 | 1281 | 2.63 | 37 | 15402 | .917 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
60 games, 37-19-4 with a .921 and a 2.39, 5 shutouts, facing 1,798 shots.
The .921 was the second-best figure of any goaltender who played twenty-five games and 1,798 shots was the third-largest workload in this edition. The club’s goaltending finished 34.8 goals better than the chances it faced, first in the league and seven and a half clear of second.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 207.
He plays enormous, square and deep, taking away the top of the net simply by standing up in it and letting the shot arrive rather than pushing out to meet it. He tracks the puck through a screen better than anybody else in this chapter, which is why the club could afford to be ninth at preventing chances and still allow the fewest goals in hockey.
The Mental Game
A career .9168 across 505 games with 37 shutouts.
He has been above .9100 in eight of his nine seasons and above .9200 in four of them. Five hundred and five games at that level is not a hot year and it is not a system; it is what he is.
The Intangibles
One hundred and thirtieth overall in 2012 by Winnipeg, nine seasons, one organisation, and 275 wins in 505 games.
Two hundred and seventy-five career wins against 173 losses. He is 31, he was a fifth-round pick, and he has played every one of his 505 NHL games for this club.