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Pekka Rinne will probably get the Vezina but right now Connor Hellebuyck has the inside track on the bigger prize.

The backbone of the Winnipeg Jets has been the better player in a head-to-head matchup of two of the nominees for a major NHL goaltending award.

That has the Jets just one win away from a mild second-round upset of the Presidents’ Trophy winning Nashville Predators, a team that made it to the Stanley Cup final last year and was looking like a good bet to take it a step further this year.

The Predators now need a win in Winnipeg, where the Jets recorded 32 wins during the regular season and are 4-1 in the playoffs.

And they’ll have to do it against Hellebuyck, who has written one of the great stories of this NHL season and has been stellar, for the most part, in this series.

Hellebuyck’s play in the first periods of Games 1 and 5 is one of the biggest factors in his team’s 3-2 series lead.

Despite an early onslaught in a hostile and loud building with the home team feeding off fan energy, Hellebuyck kept those two games scoreless until the Jets could find their wings.