{"id":223940,"date":"2025-10-19T00:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223940\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:32:03","slug":"wheeler-congratulates-scheifele-on-becoming-jets-all-time-leading-scorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223940\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheeler congratulates Scheifele on becoming Jets all-time leading scorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWell, Scheif, the day we knew was coming has come,\u201d Wheeler said in a video posted by the team. \u201cI remember in 2019 when I broke the record, and we got back to the bench, and you were congratulating me, and I let you know I was going to hold on to this one for you for a little bit and now that time has come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only fitting that the first-ever draft pick in Jets 2.0. history is now the leading scorer in franchise history. Here\u2019s to many, many, many more points to come. I know you still got a lot more left in ya. Just know the Wheelers are your biggest fans. We are cheering you on from afar as always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler and Scheifele played 13 seasons together with the Jets from 2011-2024. Wheeler had 812 career points (262 goals, 550 goals) in 897 games with the franchise. Scheifele now has 813 career points (342 goals, 471 assists) in in 884 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWell, Scheif, the day we knew was coming has come,\u201d Wheeler said in a video posted by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-223940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}