Winnipeg's most ideal way to share the crease throughout the 2024-25 season

The 2023 Vezina winner Connor Hellebuyck, the former Wild, Sharks & Devils goalie Kaapo Kahkonen, and now 3-time Jets goalie Eric Comrie. Here's how the Jets should balance the workload for their goal crease for all 82 games of the season.

Starting in goal for your Winnipeg Jets for around 75% of the games will be Connor Hellebuyck. The now 2-time Vezina Trophy winner is poised to continue where he left off in the regular season in 2023-24. Forgetting the less than ideal playoff performance from Hellebuyck, the Jets wouldn't have achieved the record they did last year without Hellebuyck. Entering his 9th full year as the Jets starting goalie, at age 31, Hellebuyck has no signs of slowing down any time soon. Hellebuyck started 60 games last season, and the sweet spot for the upcoming season should be for him to start between 57-62 games, depending on how the season unfolds. Having an arguably top 3 goalie in the league can never be understated, and Jets fans surely appreciate what Hellebuyck has done thus far in net throughout his career.

With the departure of Laurent Brossoit, the backup job for the Jets is now available. It's very likely that Kaapo Kahkonen will win that spot on the Jets. Now Will the Jets see the Minnesota Wild version of Kahkonen where he posted a .910 save percentage with a sub 3 goals against average, or will the Jets see the San Jose Sharks version of Kahkonen who had some of the worst stats in the league? After a brief 6 games with the New Jersey Devils, Kahkonen is ready to turn the script and get things going with the Jets. In terms of his workload, the most games he's played in a season is 37, so 20-23 games shouldn't be a problem for him, and I'm expecting him to have a decent 1st season with the Jets.

Finally Eric Comrie, but the goalies to keep an eye out for who should one day play for the Jets in net are Thomas Milic and Dom DiVincentiis. The pair of young goalies continue to develop nicely, proving that they've been worth the late-round considerations in 2022 and 2023. Hellebuyck still has many good years ahead of him, but don't be surprised if in 2-3 years from now we see one of these goalies step into that coveted number 2 role on the Jets.