3-WAY HELLEBUYCK/NIKISHIN MOCK TRADE 👀🚨 #Hurricanes receive: Connor Hellebuyck Carolina gets their 1G for the remainder of their realistic contention window with Aho/Slavin, and do it without giving up many premium assets (Nikishin wants out, KK tends to be a healthy scratch, Kochetkov is a solid backup, and Dallas’ 2028 first from the Rantanen deal). #Jets receive: two 2028 1sts (DAL, COL), Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Nic Hague, Pyotr Kochetkov Winnipeg’s made it known they don’t want to fully rebuild, they don’t have the money or undying fan support to do so, and they owe it to Morrissey/Connor/Scheifele to continue pushing the chips in. They get a good return for Hellebuyck (who clearly wants out) in two firsts in a theoretically pretty good draft class in 2028, a bottom-4 LHD in Hague, a reclamation potential middle sixer project in KK (they’ve done well with these in the past, maybe it works out.. he’s still young and signed for a few years, too), and a solid backup to tandem with S...