Okay, so at 22 and heading into his third full season in the NHL, Jets center Mark Scheifele isn’t exactly a kid anymore. Still, for the purposes of this piece, consider him part of the youth wing that lit up the MTS Centre three times.

The first one? It was nifty. The Jets were on the power play — for that, they can thank Calgary defenceman prospect Brett Kulak, who went to the box for hooking Dustin Byfuglien — when Nic Petan worked the puck close to the crease and whipped it lightning-quick onto the tape of Scheifele’s stick.

Blink and you’d miss the pass, it was that quick. Scheifele didn’t blink. Instead, he tipped the shot right past Calgary goalie Joni Ortio, to tie the game up at one apiece. Ehlers picked up the second assist and there were hockey hugs. Training-camp hockey hugs, anyway. Soon, the hugs will bear a little more urgency.

Petan, later, shrugged off his part of the goal. No biggie, he seemed to say. “Puck came to me in the middle, I saw Scheifs in front, and it was kind of an obvious pass,” Petan said. “Luckily, it went in.”

Share this Story