"Flights" don't have connections - your booking of multiple of them together does!

eg, on a random day I picked next month there is a flight from OGG that arrives in LAX at 6:31am. From there you can connect to LAX-EWR flights that leave at either 7:20am (51 minute connection), 8:40am (2h09), 9:25am (2h54), 10:15am (3h44), or 11:25am (4h54), or even later.

All of those are valid connections. All of those price the same (although that can vary depending on a number of factors). The booking engine will likely show you the 51 minute connection first, simple because it's sorting by either arrival time or total flight length.

The days of airlines publishing "connections" is (mostly) long gone - it's now about MCT, which for routes like SFO/LAX-EWR gives you extreme flexibility in how long you want your connection to be.