Connor Hellebuyck has been suspended without pay since mid-September for refusing to report to Winnipeg Jets training camp, and the longer it drags on, the more expensive it gets for him. Somebody has now made that uncomfortably easy to watch.
Hellebucks.com is a live counter that ticks upward in real time, tracking the salary the three-time Vezina winner gives up with every passing second he stays away. The site puts the running cost at $38,660 a day, or roughly 45 cents a second.
How much money is Connor Hellebuyck losing?
The full-season figure is where it stops being abstract. If Hellebuyck sits out the entire campaign, the tab comes to $7.5 million.
That number is lower than most people would guess, and the site explains why. The $8.5 million everyone quotes is his cap hit, which is the average annual value across the seven-year contract. His actual base salary for 2026-27 is $7.5 million. NHL salaries are paid across the 194 days of the regular season, running from September 29 to April 10, so each day away costs him one 194th of it.
The clock started at the season opener and hasn’t stopped since.
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The site is the work of Robson Fletcher, a data and storytelling strategist, who describes it as an estimate for fun rather than formal accounting and makes clear it has no connection to the Jets, the NHL, the NHLPA or Hellebuyck himself. It also features a section converting the running total into things that amount of money could buy, and freezes the figure at the moment anyone shares a link or image from it.
The accompanying text makes no secret of the sentiment behind it. Fletcher runs through the goaltender’s journey from fifth-round pick in 2012 to three Vezinas and a Hart Trophy, then through the trade request, the no-show at camp and the suspension, before summing it up in one line: “We’d have built you a statue. Instead we built this counter.”
Winnipeg, meanwhile, is 3-0-1 and sits atop the Central Division with Stuart Skinner and Clay Stevenson sharing the crease.
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