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 Adam
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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| benv wrote on Thu, 17 September 2026 11:02 |
| Kr55 wrote on Wed, 16 September 2026 20:31 |
Jets aren't going to do Helle any favors it looks like. Good. Wonder if they can get out of paying him too. I believe Helle's contract can just shift a year ahead too if he refuses to report all year.
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The Winnipeg Jets announced today they have suspended goaltender Connor Hellebuyck for failure to report to training camp.
General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff will address the media at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 17th, at hockey for all centre.
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Twenty years ago I thought the Oilers should have done the same thing with Pronger. Deny his trade request, and suspend him if/when he doesn't show up for camp and wait him out.
Wonder if they had been more hard ass, if things would have been better or worse in the long run. Considering the next ten years, it could hardly have gone worse.
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Hard to say the best option at that stage. I mean, they tried to be real hardasses about Souray a couple years later and that was a total disaster. They ended up having to buy out his last year and watch him leave for nothing.
Now, he had had significant injuries and wound down his career soon after, but at the time of his banishment he was only a year removed from a 53 point campaign. Oilers may have been better off dealing him (certainly would have been better off treating him in a way that didn't make him feel he needed to go to Mark Spector to complain about the way they deal with players!)
Tough situation for Winnipeg fans. He's not going to get them anywhere close to what they probably should be able to get for a guy with his profile. I'm not sure sitting him out for a few weeks or months is going to improve that return. I imagine they're trying to convince him to come back still and work together towards getting something done, but it's a tough situation all around.
Interesting that Larkin is reporting to camp, although injured.
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