Doughty Buyout = 3.67m x 2

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The New Jersey Devils traded for a three-time Vezina winner and Olympic gold medalist, watched him go 5-0 with a shutout two nights ago, and then put out a statement saying that starting him in Winnipeg tonight "would potentially give us a reduction in our expected win probability." Read that again. That's about the goalie they gave up Dawson Mercer, Nico Daws, a 2nd-round pick and more to get. Hellebuyck told them he was "adamant" he wanted to play. In his words: "I love Winnipeg, and playing there again and just facing the music and seeing the reaction, it'd be nice. But it's out of my hands." New Jersey told him no and handed the net to Jake Allen instead. Here's Jake Allen against the Jets for his career: 9-11-3, a 3.18 GAA and an .884 save percentage. Those 11 regulation losses are the most he has against any team in the NHL. This year he's at .881. So the team that's worried about win probability benched the goalie with a 1.96 GAA for the guy Winnipeg has owned for a decade. If that's what the model spit out, I'd love to see the model. Then Keefe comes out with workload: four starts in eight nights and wanting him fresh for Washington. That's not what the GM's statement said. The GM's statement said Hellebuyck makes them less likely to win. You don't get to pick whichever excuse sounds better after the internet gets ahold of the first one. And it's not just fans who aren't buying it. Elliotte Friedman said on 32 Thoughts that if he were Hellebuyck, he'd go stand in the crease next to Allen and refuse to leave. Sid Seixeiro said that if he's in the Winnipeg room, "I'm getting my pound of flesh from somebody," and that the Hughes brothers and Jake Allen should keep their heads up. Even the Devils' own beat writer at NJ.com said he would've started Hellebuyck. When the guy who covers your team every night says he'd have played him, that statement didn't land. And now Hellebuyck wears all of it. Scott Arniel says he "just gave up on us" and that this "drags it out." Hellebuyck's answer was "That hurts." The guy asked to play, and his own organization set him up to look like he's hiding. Winnipeg fans waited weeks for this night, and New Jersey turned it into a press release. #NJDevils #GoJetsGo

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