{"id":555181,"date":"2026-04-18T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555181\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:30:20","slug":"connor-hellebuyck-calls-jets-season-unacceptable-as-questions-grow-over-winnipeg-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555181\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Hellebuyck calls Jets season ‘unacceptable’ as questions grow over Winnipeg future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Connor Hellebuyck has delivered a stark assessment of the Winnipeg Jets season, calling the team\u2019s performance \u201cunacceptable\u201d after missing the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the club\u2019s end-of-season media availability, the three-time Vezina Trophy winner did not hold back. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we did was unacceptable, and no one wants to be a part of that,\u201d Hellebuyck said. \u201cThis year, it was chaos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg finished with a 35-35-12 record, placing seventh in the Central Division and missing the post-season for the first time in four years. <\/p>\n

The result marks a sharp decline after winning the Presidents\u2019 Trophy in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

Hellebuyck admitted the road ahead is uncertain, particularly in attracting talent: \u201cIt’s hard, it’s hard. Can you get the pieces you need? Will the players come? Those are always questions that you have in Winnipeg.\u201d <\/p>\n

Despite a dip in his personal statistics, the 32-year-old reiterated his long-term goal. \u201cFor me, it’s winning a Stanley Cup,\u201d said Hellebuyck. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s my goal, and that’s all I have left. That’s what I want on my resume. I don’t play this game for the money. I don’t play it for the fame.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Hellebuyck has delivered a stark assessment of the Winnipeg Jets season, calling the team\u2019s performance \u201cunacceptable\u201d after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-555181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-winnipeg","12":"tag-winnipeg-jets","13":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116425250391788866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}