HELLEBUCKS

Suspended · Day – of 194

Connor Hellebuyck has forfeited

$0.00

in salary since the Jets opened their season without him.

$0.00 since you opened this page
$38,660 every day
45¢ every second

0% of his 2026–27 salary, gone. Full-season tab: $7,500,000.

Connor Hellebuyck in a white Winnipeg Jets jersey, kneeling in his crease and looking up the ice.
Better days: Oct. 24, 2024, in Seattle. Photo: Jenn G / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized.

So far, that's enough for

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We'd have built you a statue. Instead we built a counter.

Three Vezinas. A Hart Trophy. A decade of making the impossible save look routine. Winnipeg didn't just cheer for Connor Hellebuyck; it trusted him. When everything else broke down, he was the one thing that didn't.

Then came the trade request in August. In September, an empty stall at training camp and an indefinite suspension. Now the Jets are playing without him, and he isn't getting paid for any of it.

He used to stop everything. Now the only thing he's stopping is his own paycheque.

This counter runs until he's traded, he reports, or the season ends. Whichever comes first.