DALLAS — They didn’t bring home any hardware, but the Winnipeg Jets still had a solid showing at Wednesday night’s NHL awards, which were handed out on the Las Vegas Strip.
Goalie Connor Hellebuyck finished second in Vezina Trophy voting as the league’s top goaltender, coming up just short of claiming the prize won by the Nashville Predators’ Pekka Rinne. Hellebuyck was on the ballot of 26 of the league’s 31 general managers, including seven first-place votes, 14 second-place votes and five for third place. Rinne finished with 129 points, Hellebuyck had 82 and Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning had 21.