Connor Hellebuyck News & Stories

Cam and Ryan react to the official Olympic rosters for the U.S. and Canada.

Cam Robinson and Ryan Lambert try to figure out who the United States and Canada will take to the Olympics.

In Part 4 of our Olympic Stock Watch series, Cam Robinson and Ryan Lambert discuss how the first six weeks of the NHL season has shifted expectations for the United States and Canada.

No goalie as young as Dustin Wolf has gotten a contract this big or this long. Now, can he live up to it?

This time we're tackling Team USA.

These guys gotta go!

Same old problems. Maybe time to try a new solution? (The previous solution was "not doing anything.")

You'll never guess what went wrong in Game 3. ... Oh, you guessed very easily? Hmm. Seems like that's its own problem.

JFresh previews the Stars vs. Jets second round playoff series.

Lots to think about in Colorado. Or maybe not.

Vegas was on its heels the last two games. Shuffling the lines might just fix all that.

It would be at least kinda cool if any team won the Stanley Cup, but let's be honest: Some outcomes would be cooler than others.

Jfresh breaks down the Round 1 series between the Winnipeg Jets and St. Louis Blues.

I have been thinking about the Washington Capitals a lot lately for reasons that ought to be obvious.

The Jets didn't improve much at the deadline, but their Central Division opponents sure did. Are they headed for another playoff disaster?

Should voters think about Four Nations when they give out NHL awards? No. Will they? Well...

Jordan Binnington faced down the best goalie in the world, and won yet another best-on-best gold for his home country.

While Team USA and Canada match up evenly on most levels, Connor Hellebuyck is the X-Factor for America. Cam Robinson has the story from Boston.

The NHL shouldn't get to take credit for how well best-on-best hockey is working, since it's the one that's been denying us best-on-best hockey for more than a decade.

So far, so good in the Four Nations. But the drama is just beginning.

Who have been the 10 most valuable players in the NHL so far this season?

Who are the 10 best goalies in the league so far this season?

To the tune of that "Flashdance" song: Power Feelings.

Sean Shapiro and Cam Robinson combine to look at who will be in and who will be out at the best-on-best competition in February.

*Dracula voice* I vant to read your taaaakes

Sean Shapiro ranks the 15 best goalies going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

Jeremy Swayman wants a big contract, but what's the right AAV?

How much does St. Louis think Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg are going to help them?

Round 1 is finally done and youngish American goalies stole the show.

The Canucks could have challenged, but did not.

Connor Hellebuyck hasn't been good enough, but it's not like the Winnipeg Jets are making his life all that easy either.

Sean Shapiro brings you the need-to-know details each weekday morning of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The tale of the tape for the Colorado Avalanche and Winnipeg Jets first-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Sean Shapiro takes a look around the NHL with the No. 1 teams in both the East and the West jockeying for top position.

Coach of the Year? Your guess is as good as mine.

Sean Shapiro take his weekly look at the NHL, focusing on the race in the Central Division.

These may look like a standard power rankings to you, but no, friend, these are the Power Feelings.

Sean Shapiro takes his weekly look around the NHL, with a heavy focus from the All-Star Festivities in Toronto.

Every team has finally reached the midway point in the 2023-24 season, so the EP Rinkside team is handing out NHL awards to mark the occasion.

It wouldn't take much convincing to get me to believe any combination of the top-nine teams here will be in the Stanley Cup Final.

The Winnipeg Jets are one of the NHL's best teams, and nobody saw it coming. This is how they've made it happen.

Ryan Lambert's resolution for 2024? Being chill about my takes.

These may look like a standard power rankings, but you would be wrong, friend. These are the power feelings, and feelings can't be wrong.

The Jets have won a lot of games lately. But there are some problems.

This week's trip to Take Town has us taking stops at the Winnipeg Jets locking themselves into this core, teams looking to make trades, and pride tape.

The Winnipeg Jets have locked up two of their core players to identical seven-year contract extensions. J.D. Burke has more.

Greg Balloch ranks the 15 best goaltenders in the NHL going into the 2023-24 season.

Sean Shapiro looks at some of the storylines he'll be tracking this season from the Central Division.

With almost $8.8 million in cap space, what does Kevyn Adams have up his sleeve?

Associate editor Sean Shapiro brings you his unnumbered thoughts on the morning of July 1.

JFresh previews the top names on the trade market.

It's the weird mushy middle for the Jets right now, which may be the worst possible place to be.

The playoffs aren't always fair and they aren't always revealing. But a lot of times, you get what you earn.

As the offseason looms Cam Robinson looks at potential movement and how it will shape the fantasy hockey landscape.

The Jets are the first team out, and now they face a summer with lots of questions and few good answers.

JFresh previews the Winnipeg Jets and Vegas Golden Knights first-round playoff series in the 2023 NHL Playoffs.

The EP Rinkside crew gathers to make predictions for the finality of the regular season standings.

Hey on a day like this, it's more like the PUCK luck of the Irish. You know what I'm talkin' about?

EP Rinkside associate editor goes down the rabbit hole of trying to stop The Michigan with NHL All-Star goalies, a goalie coach, and former NHLer Marty Turco.

J.D. Burke summoned a roundtable to vote on the NHL awards at the halfway point in the 2022-23 NHL season.

The Jets have an elite record despite playing non-elite hockey. Now injuries are piling up. That's bad for them.

With a few notable exceptions, teams are really settling into where they feel they should be.

Associate editor Sean Shapiro takes a look at possibly the most competitive division in the NHL after the defending champs lost another, and biggest, weapon.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I would do it, too... to bring you the takes.

The good teams? They're really good. The bad teams? Well, y'know...

The Winnipeg Jets only made two small additions to that roster this summer. Ryan Lambert says that's not enough.

Might Team USA be the favourites for gold in the 2026 Olympics? It's not out of the question.

The St. Louis Blues started the season strong, and they've stacked up points with the most games played in the league, but there are worrying trends of late that suggest the good times could be on shaky ground.

Ryan Lambert looks at the five goaltenders most likely to contend for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender in the 2021-22 season.

EP Rinkside Senior Columnist Ryan Lambert kicks off a Trophy Watch series by looking at the players with the best candidacies for the Hart Memorial and Ted Lindsay trophies in the 2021-22 season.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Montreal Canadiens beat the Winnipeg Jets, en route to winning the North Division and advancing to the final four.

From the exhilarating high of sweeping the Edmonton Oilers to the sinking depths of being swept by the Montréal Canadiens -- the Winnipeg Jets post-season had it all. Now, they're left to figure out what's next.

JFresh analyzes the unlikely matchup for the North Division crown.

As the finalists for each of the major individual awards that we care about get announced over the next couple of weeks, we'll be sorting through where the voters got it right and where they went wrong. First up: the Vezina Trophy.

With round one matchups starting to get wrapped up, we're going to be taking a closer look at how the teams that won their series did so. This time, we're going to look at the importance of goaltending, and how the Jets and Islanders rode it to victory.

These aren't your standard power rankings. These are Ryan Lambert's Power Feelings, a set of rankings based entirely on how he feels about each team's chances of winning the Stanley Cup.

Connor Hellebuyck should've been the NHL's MVP last season, could make a similarly strong claim this year, and he's on a historic run of success which could see him ascend to rarified air as a three-time Vezina candidate. Ryan Lambert has more.

J.D. Burke polled his team of writers for their mid-season NHL awards winners, and he's revealing the results in this article on Rinkside.