One of the surprising things to come out of the conversation was that Scheifele was healing well and would have been ready for the Stanley Cup playoffs, had the Jets punched their ticket to the post-season party.
It’s something that I can learn from, I can get better from, and that’s kind of how I’m looking at it.”Įarlier this season, Scheifele saw longtime left-winger Kyle Connor move to a line with Pierre-Luc Dubois and even before his injury, his most frequent linemate, Jets captain Blake Wheeler, was moved to another unit as well.Īfter watching former roommate Andrew Copp traded to the New York Rangers at the NHL trade deadline, it seems like Scheifele might be wondering if remaining with the Jets for the final two seasons of his eight-year, $49-million deal makes sense for him. It’s something that I can figure out what wasn’t going at the beginning and what was going towards the end. I felt like I started to find it in the last couple of months, so I was obviously happy with that.
“I didn’t like my game early on in the year. “I probably didn’t feel really like myself until after Christmas, I would say, maybe even a little after,” Scheifele said. One of the troubling things was that in the eight questions that he answered at the podium, there was a prime opportunity for Scheifele - who is one of the team’s alternate captains - to show some accountability like many teammates did before him during the lengthy autopsy of this lost season and provide some thoughts on what he thought the Jets needed to do in order to get things turned around. While many of those words were of a personal nature, it was what he didn’t say that also garnered plenty of attention. His priorities came through crystal clear.Īs the Winnipeg Jets centre spoke to reporters on Sunday for the first time since suffering a shoulder injury on April 10, he was extremely candid in terms of what he needed to hear in his exit meeting with general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff. Mark Scheifele didn’t leave much open to interpretation. Send this page to someone via email email.
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