Stuart Skinner had kind of a rough night Friday. He gave up five goals on 32 shots against Colorado, though one was an empty-netter, so it looks a little uglier on paper than it was.
For years, the idea of Connor Hellebuyck in a San Jose Sharks sweater would have been pure fantasy. He was the immovable franchise pillar for the Winnipeg Jets, a three-time Vezina Trophy winner and the 2025 Hart Trophy winner who signed a long-term deal and declared he wanted to be a Jet for life.
Nino Niederreiter's night against the Colorado Avalanche was one of those games where you see an aging hockey warrior who still has it. The Winnipeg Jets lost 5-2 to the Avalanche, but Niederreiter wasn't the problem.
Winnipeg’s history is now one. The National Hockey League announced earlier today that the Winnipeg Jets’ statistical history includes both iterations of the franchise.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
Two Winnipeg franchises have officially become one. The NHL announced on Thursday that they have merged the histories of the original Winnipeg Jets with the current iteration of the franchise, allowing the statistical achievements and records of players to play for either era of the team to be recorded together.
The Connor Hellebuyck saga continues to drag on, with the star netminder suspended after failing to report to training camp. Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff is still trying to find a resolution, but one has yet to materialize.
The NHL has made a change to how statistics are tracked for the Winnipeg Jets. Previously, all Jets records only tracked the modern iteration of the team – which formed in the 2011-12 season after the Atlanta Thrashers folded.
As Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck awaits a potential trade, one of the challenges at this point is finding teams that still have a need or a desire to swing for a big upgrade in goal. Back at the draft when trade talks first leaked, teams had some openings and more payroll flexibility than they do now.
The Winnipeg Jets announced the following roster moves to bring their training camp roster from 46 players down to 34. Scott Arniel mentioned over the past few days that he wanted to get the training camp roster down to one group before the team resumes skating on Thursday.
With one of the best goaltenders looking to move, would a young and rising team be the right fit? It has become clear that Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck wants out and refused to report to training camp as a result.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Something about the Winnipeg Jets last season was plain strange. This team had been one of the NHL's better regular-season clubs, and then suddenly it wasn't.
Elliotte Friedman recently joined the FAN Hockey Show to talk through where the Connor Hellebuyck situation might land, and one team has suddenly emerged as a genuinely interesting fit: the San Jose Sharks.
What happens if Connor Hellebuyck is traded but not to a team in the United States? That’s a question some are starting to ask, since no deal has happened yet and Hellebuyck is rumored to have opened up to a trade to a place like Edmonton or Montreal.
A lot of people sort of wrote Stuart Skinner off after Edmonton. But I don’t think that’s fair — and I think Winnipeg might be exactly the spot where he proves people wrong.
The 2026-27 NHL regular season starts in one week, yet it still doesn’t appear as if anything is all that close on the Connor Hellebuyck trade front. Neither
The New Jersey Devils have been linked to Connor Hellebuyck over the last few months. New Jersey has solid, albeit questionable, goaltending. They have not significantly addressed the position after trading Jacob Markstrom to the Florida Panthers.
Some hockey situations involve a player joining a new team, and everyone talks about what he might accomplish. Then there are situations where you look around and think, “Well, this is going to be interesting.” Stuart Skinner has walked into one of those.
The suspension of star goaltender Connor Hellebuyck doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a path for him to remain with the Winnipeg Jets. But when it comes to a possible trade, Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff said Thursday he won't allow any move to be a setback for the organization.