Facing a high volume of shots is nothing new for Hellebuyck, who seems to thrive in those situations. He has faced the most shots on goal in each of the past four seasons, including 30 in a game 10 times this season, and has allowed two goals or fewer in five of them. He's faced 40 shots in a game four times, and in those games he's 3-0-1 with 11 goals allowed on 174 shots (.937 save percentage).
"He's unbelievable," Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey said. "He's looked fantastic this year. He's looked sharp from the first day of [training] camp. … If he's playing like that and feeling that way and confident, that gives our team a ton of confidence. He's been our rock back there for a long time now and it's great to hear him feeling it like that."
Hellebuyck's play has the Jets (12-6-1) in the race for a top-three spot in the Central Division after they missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season.
"[Hellebuyck] gives us the confidence that we can do our job in front of him and play the right way and he'll do his thing every night to give us a chance to win," Morrissey said.
Ullmark is 13-1-0 in 16 games (15 starts), leads the NHL with a 2.00 GAA and .935 save percentage (minimum 10 games).
He also has held up under an increased workload. Prior to sustaining an upper-body injury against the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday, Ullmark had started 10 of Boston's past 13 games, including six straight from Oct. 28-Nov. 10, after not playing more than four in a row last season.
"I feel great," Ullmark said last week, according to NESN.com. "It's why we work out in the summer. We had a little longer summer after we got beaten there in the first round [of the playoffs last season]. So, there was a lot of emotions that you wanted to get right back at it."
Voting totals (points awarded on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis):Connor Hellebuyck, Jets, 60 points (5 first-place votes); Linus Ullmark, Bruins, 59 (9); Jake Oettinger, Stars, 25; Logan Thompson, Golden Knights, 24; Ilya Sorokin, Islanders, 23; Vitek Vanecek, New Jersey Devils, 8; Carter Hart, Philadelphia Flyers, 7; Alexandar Georgiev, Colorado Avalanche, 3; Martin Jones, Seattle Kraken, 1