Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Mark Scheifele pays special visit to Penticton Vees<\/p>\n
Published 11:28 am Saturday, February 21, 2026<\/p>\n
It was a memorable start to the Penticton Vees\u2019 road trip.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets star Mark Scheifele did the honours of reading aloud the Vees\u2019 starting lineup before the expansion club\u2019s game against the Brandon Wheat Kings on Feb. 20.<\/p>\n
Scheifele is part-owner of the Vees, along with USA Hockey legend and former New York Rangers netminder Mike Richter. Graham Fraser is the team\u2019s majority owner.<\/p>\n
A first-round pick of the Jets in 2011, Scheifele, 32, was introduced in the Vees\u2019 locker room on Friday by head coach and general manager Fred Harbinson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Vees (35-12-4-4) are in the midst of an extended Eastern Conference road trip.<\/p>\n
The club\u2019s game in Brandon on Friday, a 4-0 loss, marked the first of six games through Canada\u2019s prairies.<\/p>\n
Penticton visits the Regina Pats on Saturday night, Feb. 21, with a chance to set the new record for most wins in a WHL team\u2019s first season.<\/p>\n
The Vees need one more win to pass the 2003-2004 Everett Silvertips and set the new mark. With two more victories, Penticton would tie the 1982-1983 Longueuil Chevaliers of the QMJHL for most wins in a Canadian Hockey League franchise\u2019s first campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Mark Scheifele pays special visit to Penticton Vees Published 11:28 am Saturday, February 21, 2026 It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-490737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490737","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=490737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}