{"id":525064,"date":"2026-03-09T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525064\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:31:12","slug":"scheifele-leads-3-stars-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525064\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheifele leads 3 Stars of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0\u2013 Winnipeg Jets center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mark-scheifele-8476460\" title=\"Mark Scheifele\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Scheifele<\/a>, Colorado Avalanche center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/martin-necas-8480039\" title=\"Martin Necas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Necas<\/a> and Buffalo Sabres center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tage-thompson-8479420\" title=\"Tage Thompson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tage Thompson<\/a>\u00a0have been named\u00a0the NHL\u2019s \u201cThree Stars\u201d presented by GEICO for the week ending March 8.<\/p>\n<p>FIRST STAR \u2013 MARK SCHEIFELE, C, WINNIPEG JETS<\/p>\n<p>Scheifele compiled 3-5\u20148 and a pair of game-winning goals across three appearances to propel the Jets (26-26-10, 62 points) to a perfect week as they moved within five points of the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. He notched 1-2\u20143, capped by his franchise-record 18th career overtime goal (<a href=\"https:\/\/records.nhl.com\/records\/skater-records\/overtime\/most-ot-goals-career\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also tied for seventh place in NHL history<\/a>), in a 3-2 comeback victory against the Chicago Blackhawks March 3. Scheifele then posted 1-1\u20142, including his sixth game-winning goal of the season (tied for fifth place in the League), in a 4-1 triumph versus the Tampa Bay Lightning March 5. He finished the week with 1-2\u20143, highlighted by his 30th goal of the campaign as well as the primary assists on both the tying and winning goals, in a 3-2 overtime victory against the Vancouver Canucks March 7. The 32-year-old Scheifele, who leads Winnipeg in goals, assists and points this season, ranks sixth in the entire NHL with 30-48\u201478 through 62 total contests in 2025-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK\u00a0\u2013 Winnipeg Jets center Mark Scheifele, Colorado Avalanche center Martin Necas and Buffalo Sabres center Tage Thompson\u00a0have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-525064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525064","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=525064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}