Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck has won the 2025 Vezina and Hart Trophies as the league’s best goaltender and most valuable player.
Hellebuyck is the first goaltender since Carey Price to win the two awards. Price took home the Hart and Vezina in the 2015 season.
While debate surrounds Hellebuyck’s 2025 postseason numbers, the votes for all awards must be cast before the beginning of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Hellebuyck will have to make room for additional hardware as he captured his third career Vezina Trophy and his first Hart Trophy. He’s the only player in the Winnipeg Jets franchise history to win the Hart and Vezina Trophies. He has also won consecutive William M. Jennings Trophies in 2024 and 2025.
Hellebuyck is the first goaltender to win the Jennings Trophy in consecutive seasons, with his name only on the award. He’s also the first repeat Vezina winner since Martin Brodeur did it in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
His third Vezina win puts Hellebuyck into one of many groups. Hellebuyck becomes the fourth player in NHL history to win three Vezina Trophies alongside Patrick Roy, Dominik Hasek, and Martin Brodeur. Roy has three of his own, Brodeur has four, and Hasek has six Vezina Trophies.
The Jets’ franchise netminder has been a part of finalist voting for the Vezina on three separate occasions.
This puts the 32-year-old goaltender from Commerce, Michigan, in another exclusive group with three other goaltenders to win the Hart in the post-expansion era. Hellebuyck joins Dominik Hasek (1996-97, 1997-98), Jose Theodore (2001-02) and Carey Price (2014-15).
There are only four other goaltenders from the pre-expansion era to win the Hart Trophy: Roy Worters (1928-29), Chuck Rayner (1949-50), Al Rollins (1952-53), and Jacques Plante (1961-62).
“I think he was in shock,” said Jets backup goaltender Eric Comrie. “It was one of the best seasons I’ve seen a goalie have in my life,” Comrie added.
Hellebuyck celebrated earlier in the 2024-25 season some milestones of his own. He’s suited up and played in 568 NHL games, winning 322 of those games and posting shutouts in 45 of those games. This earned him a pregame celebration recognizing him passing 500 games played, 300 wins, and 40 shutouts as a goaltender.
The Jets were well represented in February as Connor Hellebuyck, alongside Kyle Connor and Josh Morrissey, represented their respective countries at the 2025 NHL Four-Nations Face Off. While Hellebuyck didn’t win the tournament with Team USA, they were the runner-up to Canada.
Connor Hellebuyck will have another shot to represent his country as he’s the projected starting goaltender for Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
One of the biggest storylines heading into the Jets’ 2025-26 season will be if Hellebuyck can defend the Vezina for a third consecutive season and match Dominik Hasek as the only goaltenders in NHL History to win back-to-back Hart Trophies.
The Jets, alongside Connor Hellebuyck, will be looking to march their way back to the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs as the Jets hunt a Stanley Cup.
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