Thomas\u00a0Steen<\/a> will lead the franchise in assists (553).<\/p>\nScheifele, who has 907 points (372 goals, 535 assists) in 961 games, has an opportunity to take the Jets lead in all three offensive categories this season.<\/p>\n
“I think first and foremost, having Dale on that list is incredible,” Scheifele said. “He was such a staple and a name that became synonymous with Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Jets. I think it’s really cool that they’re bringing them all together and cool that Dale is now a part of the same record books as what we’re on.”<\/p>\n
Scheifele has a deep admiration for Hawerchuk, who coached him for three seasons with Barrie of the Ontario Hockey League (2010-13).<\/p>\n
“The first time I met him he was trying to convince me to come to Barrie, I was just traded from Saginaw,” Scheifele said in an interview with Sportsnet on July 19, 2018. “Dale pretty much singlehandedly talked to me to come to Barrie just because the way he was, the influence he had. I spent three years with him and learned something new from him every single day, so that was pretty special to have him on my side.”<\/p>\n
Hawerchuk had 929 points (379 goals, 550 assists) in 713 games for the original Jets during nine seasons (1981-90). He played 16 NHL seasons with Winnipeg, the Buffalo Sabres, St. Louis Blues and Philadelphia Flyers and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Hawerchuk died of cancer on Aug. 18, 2020, at the age of 57.<\/p>\n
“Statistics and records are more than numbers — they capture the milestones, achievements and memories that define the history of the game and the communities that support it,” NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said in the NHL release. “We respect the Jets’ commitment to honoring the franchise’s journey and are pleased that the full history of NHL hockey in Winnipeg now can be celebrated as one continuous story.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL announced Thursday that the statistical history of the Jets now will include both iterations of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-903912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903912","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=903912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}