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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Five wins in nine starts is not stellar. I believe that Hellebyuck has also been pulled twice.
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8 starts, pulled once. His 9th game (which was actually his first) was in relief for the third period of a game that was 4-0 when he came in (the Flames won 6-2, with the Jets scoring their second at 19:59 of the third). Hellebuyck allowed 2 goals on 6 shots in that game.
It's interesting that Hellebuyck hasn't allowed more than 1 goal in any of his 5 wins over the Flames, and he needed to be that good because the Jets didn't score more than 2 goals in any of the wins. He has had one 2-0 shutout, two 2-1 regulation wins, a 2-1 OT win (Heritage Classic), and a 2-1 SO win.
In his 3 starts that ended as Jets' losses (only 2 were credited as losses to Hellebuyck because he was pulled early), he allowed 3 goals.
In the playoffs, he is 2-9 in games where he allowed at least 3 goals against.
Not surprisingly, the key to beating the Jets will be putting pucks behind Hellebuyck.