{"id":224521,"date":"2025-10-19T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224521\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:10:10","slug":"mark-scheifele-passes-blake-wheeler-for-top-spot-on-winnipeg-jets-franchise-points-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224521\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Scheifele passes Blake Wheeler for top spot on Winnipeg Jets\u2019 franchise points list"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2014 The often-stoic Mark Scheifele<\/a> showed more emotion than usual after reaching an impressive milestone on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Jets assistant captain scored a power-play goal early in the first period of a 4-1 victory over the Nashville Predators<\/a>, which made him the all-time leading scorer in Jets 2.0 history with 813 points.<\/p>\n

WINNIPEG \u2014 The often-stoic Mark Scheifele<\/a> showed more emotion than usual after reaching an impressive milestone on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Jets assistant captain scored a power-play goal early in the first period of a 4-1 victory over the Nashville Predators<\/a>, which made him the all-time leading scorer in Jets 2.0 history with 813 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, an unbelievable pass by KC (Kyle Connor<\/a>),\u201d Scheifele said. \u201cHe\u2019s good, isn\u2019t he? He\u2019s amazing. Obviously, I\u2019m tremendously honoured. I\u2019m still trying to catch another guy (Dale Hawerchuk<\/a>). For that one, it will be cool.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I\u2019m tremendously honoured. I wouldn\u2019t be here without the guys, especially the guy I went ahead of. He helped me throughout my career and he also gave me a lot of tap-ins, so I\u2019m very lucky about the guys I play with currently and who I played with in the past, and I owe it all to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawerchuk, who coached Scheifele in junior, leads the Jets 1.0 in all-time points.<\/p>\n

Scheifele passed former Jets captain Blake Wheeler<\/a> to reach the top. The Canada Life Centre scoreboard showed a message from Wheeler congratulating his former teammate for passing him on the list.<\/p>\n

\u201cHearing Wheels\u2019 message was obviously pretty emotional,\u201d Scheifele admitted. \u201cLike I said before, he\u2019s taught me so much. I wouldn\u2019t be where I am today without him. So, hearing him say that is tremendous and I\u2019m excited to call him in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scheifele also looked emotional on the bench after getting congratulated by everyone waiting for him there after the goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust all the smiling faces of all the brothers I play with every day,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s the biggest thing. These are the guys we spend every single day with. We rely on them each and every day. I\u2019m really lucky to be a part of this group.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of amazing friends \u2014 lifelong friends \u2014 so to see all the smiling faces and getting hugs from the guys means more than the world to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scheifele also gave a nod to the 14,309 fans, who gave him a standing ovation for reaching the milestone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was pretty special,\u201d said Scheifele, who scored his sixth goal of the season. \u201cThe fans here are incredible. They give us so much extra motivation. We really do have amazing fans and I\u2019m lucky to be a part of such a tremendous organization, a tremendous community and I\u2019m very, very honoured to be here.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very humbling and I\u2019m very honoured to be in the position I am. Just very lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jets are lucky to have him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obviously great to see him get it at home here, in front of the hometown crowd is awesome.,\u201d said Jets coach Scott Arniel<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s been such a consistent player. He has such great offensive skills and instincts. That was a great play, a real highlight-reel goal that he did score. A great pass from (Connor). Nice to see him get it over and done with real quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scheifele\u2019s teammates were obviously thrilled for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all happy for Sheif,\u201d said Logan Stanley<\/a>, who also scored. \u201cHe\u2019s an unbelievable teammate and human, and it\u2019s incredible to watch what he does every night.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe usually scores nice ones, so it wasn\u2019t surprising, but heck of a shot and great pass to him from KC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scheifele, who was the Jets 2.0 first draft pick, also extended his goal-scoring streak to four games.<\/p>\n

The fans also chanted Stanley\u2019s name after his goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a first, so yeah, it felt good,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vladislav Namestnikov<\/a> and Nino Niederreiter<\/a> also scored for Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

Michael Bunting<\/a> replied for Nashville.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Oct. 18, 2025.<\/p>\n

Jim Bender, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 The often-stoic Mark Scheifele showed more emotion than usual after reaching an impressive milestone on Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,84871,448,82,74727],"class_list":["post-224521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mark-scheifele-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476460","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-jets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-52"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}