Vancouver Canucks are nowhere near as exciting, promising or entertaining as the 2023-2024 rendition of the team. Not even just by the eye test, but the numbers compared to last season don’t even resemble the same team.

The Winnipeg Jets continued their season long homestand on Tuesday night at the Canada Life Centre and absolutely crushed the Vancouver Canucks by a score of 6-1. Connor Hellebuyck picked up his league leading 27th win of the year on a cold winter night in Winnipeg.

The Vancouver Canucks are a team filled with drama at the moment, following the rumours dressing room feud between J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson that have led to several monster trade rumours, on top of the uncertain contract status of Brock Boeser. When it rains, it pours and it is now believed that another player wants out of Vancouver.

Montreal always seems to give Winnipeg a tough test, especially in their own building. The Jets lost 4-3 in a shootout during last year’s annual visit (Laurent Brossoit was in net), and fell 4-1 the previous season (with Hellebuyck between the pipes).

Hellebuyck stopped 24 of 25 shots in Tuesday's 4-1 win over the Canadiens. Hellebuyck was caught flat-footed by Juraj Slafkovsky midway through the first period then shut the door. He kicked off Winnipeg's three-game road trip with his third consecutive win and seventh in the last eight starts.

The Great Eight is within striking distance of Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goals record of 894, which Gretzky reached on March 29, 1999, against the New York Islanders. Ovechkin began this season with 853 career goals.

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Hellebucyk is expected to tend the road twine versus the Canadiens on Tuesday, according to Ken Wiebe of The Winnipeg Free Press.

More than a week into their season long, five-game, 12-day road trip, the Caps begin to make their way back east as they visit the Flames in Calgary on Tuesday. For the first time in calendar 2025, the Caps come into the Calgary game on the heels of a regulation loss, a 2-1 setback to the Canucks in Vancouver on Saturday.

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The 27-year-old late bloomer has thrived in Washington since joining the team last summer in a trade from Vegas. He has won 22 of his 26 starts this season for a team that is tied for the most points in the National Hockey League.