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WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Jets starting goaltender position is Ondrej Pavelecs job to lose, but Connor Hellebuyck remains an intriguing possibility for a team looking to bounce back after another disappointing season.The top goaltender in the NCAA before he decided to turn pro in April, Hellebuyck is tabbed to play with the Jets AHL farm team in St. Johns, N.L., although right now hes attending his third training camp with the club that drafted him in 2012.Ive been working really hard all summer along with all the other guys in the room and I think its starting to pay off, he said Friday.Hellebuyck, 21, hasnt seen any pre-season game action with the Jets. So far only starter Pavelec and backup Michael Hutchinson have played in net during the teams first two pre-season games.The six-foot-four native of Commerence, Mi., isnt on the list for Saturdays game in Minnesota, although he doesnt sound too worried about when hell play.Thats up to the coaching staff, he said. I just want to give my best in practice every day.Hellebuycks size and skill helped earn him a spot a€” along with Winnipegs Jacob Trouba a€” on the American team at last springs world hockey championship in Belarus.Hellebuyck was a steal for the Jets, who owe their scouts a bonus for spotting him early. They picked him up in the fifth round, 130th overall, in 2012.He then finished two stunning seasons at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. After earning the starting spot in his first season, he had a 38-12-2 record in 54 games along with 12 shutouts, a .946 save percentage and 1.60 goals-against average.For the 2013-14 season, he won the inaugural Mike Richter Award as the top goaltender in college hockey.But at 20, the lure of the professional ranks and a three-year, two-way deal worth an average of just under US$1 million a year, ended his college career.Goaltending has been an Achilles heel for the Jets as they struggle to earn a playoff berth, but so far the team has refused to lay the lions share of blame in front of Pavelecs pads.As camp got underway this year, coach Paul Maurice said the whole team needs to learn how to play a steadier defensive game before its even possible to assess Pavelecs level of responsibility.But his numbers a€” the most goals allowed in the league last season along with one of the worst save percentages a€” have earned him plenty of critics.This is the first season since the former Atlanta Thrashers relocated to Winnipeg in 2011 that the team hasnt brought in a veteran backup. Instead theyve elected to stick with Hutchinson a€” at least for now.Like Hellebuyck, Hutchinson, 24, is from the Jets system. He won two of three games in Winnipeg late last season after splitting the campaign between the ECHL and AHL.Hellebuyck has yet to play a game in the AHL and said he knows hes got a lot to learn.As long as Im improving every day Im happy, he said. I dont want to go out there and have a bad day and not take something from it.Its something he says hes learned from watching other goaltenders like veteran Tim Thomas, who started for the U.S. national team in Belarus. Hellebuyck was third on the depth chart and didnt see any action as the U.S., like Canada, was eliminated in the quarter-finals. Youre always a student, til the day you retire. Miguel Sano Jersey . Whenever United loses, its crisis. When other top teams slip up, its the quirky nature of the Premier League. 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Simon (10-3) allowed three runs on five hits and three walks in 6 1-3 innings to break a tie with the Dodgers Zack Greinke and Cardinals Adam Wainwright for the NL lead in victories. Simon went to spring training as a relief pitcher and moved into the starting rotation when Mat Latos was recovering from elbow and knee surgeries. DALLAS -- Former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent wasnt drunk, as police contend, when he wrecked his Mercedes in a crash that killed a teammate, Brents lawyer told jurors Monday at the start of his trial. Brent was "guilty of being stupid behind the wheel of a car," not driving drunk on the night of the December 2012 crash that killed his close friend and teammate, Jerry Brown, defence attorney George Milner said. Milners opening remarks signalled that he would try to discredit evidence of Brents drinking central to the states case, including a blood test that allegedly pegged Brents blood alcohol content at more than twice the legal limit and dash cam video that jurors saw Monday showing Brent failing a field sobriety test at the scene. If convicted of intoxication manslaughter or manslaughter, Brent could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison. Milner argued in his opening statement that the tall, lumbering Brent, who was a 320-pound lineman when he played for the Cowboys, could drink more than the average person without becoming intoxicated. "Josh Brent is as big as a house," Milner said. "Hes got a heart -- better yet a mind -- of a person much younger than he really is." Prosecutor Heath Harris said receipts would prove that on the night of the crash, Brent bought cocktails with several shots of liquor in them and three bottles of Champagne at a night club. Brent told officers right after the crash that he hadnt had any hard liquor. "This is not a difficult case, ladies and gentlemen," Harris said. "There will be no disputing the fact that he was drinking that night." Dash cam video played for the jury Monday showed an officer asking Brent about how much he had had to drink while paramedics were trying to save Brown, a linebacker on the Cowboys practice squuad who was also a teammate of Brents at the University of Illinois.dddddddddddd "Ive had a reasonable amount," Brent is heard saying on the video. The officer, Kevin Palms, testified that Brent had watery eyes, an odour of alcohol and occasional issues with speaking. The video shows a field sobriety test in which Brent occasionally stumbles as he tries to walk in a straight line and takes more steps than the officer asked. But Milner told jurors during his opening remarks that nobody could have passed a field sobriety test after such a fiery wreck. Brent suffered scrapes to his head in the crash, and the video shows him taking the test with a wrap around his head. "Nobodys going to be able to do the tricks on the side of the road" after a crash of that severity, Milner said. Milner raised several alternate reasons for Brent failing the tests: His size made it hard for him to balance, the powder from his cars air bags made his eyes watery, and the crash had a lingering impact on him. Palms started to grow exasperated as Milner repeatedly questioned why officers made him take the tests. "We gave him every opportunity to go to the hospital," Palms said. "If he says no, (paramedics) cant force him to go. Am I supposed to just let him walk home?" Brents attorney has argued his client deserves probation, and Browns mother says she has forgiven her sons college teammate and friend. But prosecutors have made Brents case a priority, and it comes on the heels of another well-publicized case in neighbouring Tarrant County in which a teenage driver was sentenced to probation in a drunken crash that killed four people. Brent, a defensive tackle, had played in all 12 games of the 2012 NFL season prior to the crash. He retired in July. Brown was signed to the Cowboys practice squad that season. ' ' '