“Seem like a little bit of fresh start” – Mark Scheifele excited for a new time at Winnipeg Jets 


“Seem like a little bit of fresh start” – Mark Scheifele excited for a new time at Winnipeg Jets 

Mark Scheifele

Canadian ice hockey centre Mark Scheifele is ready for change with the Winnipeg Jets this National Hockey League (NHL) season. The forward, who is entering his 12th season of the tournament, has two seasons remaining on an eight-year, $49 million contract ($6.125 million average annual value) he signed on July 8, 2016.

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The centre will play for a new coach in Rick Bowness, who was hired on July 3. He replaced Dave Lowry, who was fired after the Jets (39-32-11) missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2016-17. They went past the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup First Round before a four-game defeat to the Montreal Canadiens in the best-of-7 second round.

“I’ve been with pretty much the same coaching staff for my entire career,” Scheifele told the Jets website on Tuesday, as quoted by NHL.com. “It does seem like a little bit of a fresh start. We have new coaches. There’s obviously going to be some new ideas and obviously the same players, but I’ve loved our group of guys.” 

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“Have a lot of fantastic guys on our team”

Mark Scheifele
Mark Scheifele

The Kitchener native Scheifele questioned his future at the Jets after they finished eight points behind the Nashville Predators for the second wild card from the Western Conference last season. 

“We have a lot of fantastic guys on our team that I think from talking to them, they’re just as excited as I am about this upcoming season and what it’s going to hold and how things are going to change,” Scheifele said at the Manitoba Open golf tournament in comments tweeted by the Winnipeg Sun.

With the squad that we had last year, everyone was touting us as the next Stanley Cup champions. I think we have a great team. We have a great group of guys.”

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