Jets goaltender Hellebuyck cements spectacular campaign with Hart, Vezina awards

Joshua Clipperton · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 12, 2025 12:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Connor Hellebuyck volition person to marque country for immoderate much hardware.

The Winnipeg Jets goaltender won the Hart Trophy arsenic the NHL's astir invaluable subordinate Thursday. He besides captured the Vezina Trophy arsenic the league's apical netminder for a 3rd time.

Hellebuyck is the archetypal goalie to assertion the Hart since Montreal's Carey Price a decennary ago. The 32-year-old from Commerce, Mich., topped the stats leafage this play with a 47-12-3 record, a .925 prevention percent and a 2.00 goals-against mean to spell on with 8 shutouts.

Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov and Edmonton Oilers centre Leon Draisaitl were the different Hart finalists. Kucherov won the Ted Lindsay Award arsenic league MVP past week successful a ballot among members of the NHL Players' Association.

Hellebuyck joins a database of Hart-winning goaltenders that besides includes Roy Worters (1928-29), Chuck Rayner (1949-50), Al Rollins (1953-54), Jacques Plante (1961-62), Dominik Hasek (1996-97, 1997-98) and Jose Theodore (2001-02).

The Hart is voted connected by members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, portion the Vezina is decided by the league's 32 wide managers.

Hellebuyck's awesome regular-season numbers, however, erstwhile again didn't construe to the playoffs.

Despite picking up 2 shutouts, helium won conscionable six of 13 starts successful posting an .866 prevention percent and a 3.08 GAA arsenic the Jets bushed the St. Louis Blues successful a melodramatic seven-game bid earlier falling 4-2 to the Dallas Stars successful the 2nd round.

Hellebuyck, who was the starting goaltender for the United States astatine February's 4 Nations Face-Off tourney erstwhile the Americans mislaid to Canada successful a knife-edged final, had an .870 prevention percent successful the 2023-24 post-season aft putting up a .886 people the erstwhile outpouring successful consecutive five-game losses successful the archetypal round.

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Kucherov led the NHL with 121 points successful 2024-25 and tied Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon for the astir assists with 84. Draisaitl led the league with 52 goals and tied for 3rd successful points with Boston Bruins winger David Pastrnak with 106.

Vasilevskiy went 38-20-4 with a .921 prevention percent and a 2.18 GAA for Tampa, which mislaid to the Florida Panthers successful 5 games successful the opening circular of the playoffs. He besides picked up six regular-season shutouts.

Kuemper owned a 31-11-7 people — including 5 shutouts — with a .921 prevention percent and a 2.02 GAA successful his archetypal play with Los Angeles. The Kings bushed the Oilers doubly to unfastened their first-round bid earlier losing 4 straight.

Kings' Kopitar wins 3rd Lady Byng Trophy

Los Angeles Kings centre Anze Kopitar has won the Lady Byng Trophy.

The trophy is awarded annually to the NHL subordinate who champion combines sportsmanship with on-ice quality arsenic judged by members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association.

The 37-year-old Kopitar won the grant for the 3rd clip aft finishing 2nd connected the Kings with 67 points (21 goals, 46 assists) successful 81 contests portion signaling lone 4 punishment minutes.

He received 50 first-place votes en way to earning 856 voting points, up of Tampa Bay Lightning centre Brayden Point (793) and Vegas Golden Knights centre Jack Eichel (782).

Kopitar besides won the grant successful 2015-16 and 2022-23.

The Kings' captain, who is spending his off-season successful his autochthonal Slovenia, learned of his latest grant triumph from his children, who handed him drawings of the Lady Byng earlier giving him a replica trophy.