“Love it here” – Mark Scheifele likely to be back with Winnipeg Jets next season
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Mark Scheifele
Canadian ice hockey player Mark Scheifele is expected to continue with the Winnipeg Jets in the next National Hockey League (NHL) season. Earlier, the Ontario native Scheifele questioned his future at the Jets after his side (39-32-11) missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in five seasons.
Mark, 29, has two seasons remaining on the eight-year, $49 million contract he signed in July 2016. However, he missed the final nine games of the last season owing to an upper-body injury but still finished with 70 points (29 goals, 41 assists) in 67 outings.
“Yeah, I do,” the team’s general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff on Tuesday said at the 2022 Adidas NHL Scouting Combine, as quoted by NHL.com. “My exit interview with Mark went well. Again, it was an emotional time for everybody. We asked [our players] to wear their emotions in the exits, and I think they were very productive.”
“Have to think about my career”
Scheifele, who was selected as the No. 7 pick of the 2011 NHL Draft and was later named the alternate skipper, has 577 points (230 goals, 347 assists) in 642 games in the league.
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“Obviously I love it here,” Scheifele said after Winnipeg’s season finale on May 1. “It’s been the only place I know. I obviously think there are a lot of big questions to be asked this offseason about where the team’s going and what’s all going to happen. … I’d love to be in Winnipeg, but I also have to see where this is all going and what direction this team is going in, and I guess we’ll see this summer.
“I have to think about my career and what’s going to be best for me. I have to talk to my agents and everyone in my family and stuff like that and figure out what I really want.”
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