Mark Scheifele Caught Dale Hawerchuk Atop the Jets Record Book

The Winnipeg Jets opened their Mentors Trip in Dallas on Thursday night, and the mentor hanging over the whole evening never took a shift. Mark Scheifele walked into American Airlines Center with 926 career points, three behind Dale Hawerchuk at the top of the franchise record book. He walked out level. Two goals and an assist in an 8–3 win over the Stars pulled Scheifele to 929 points — exactly where Hawerchuk, the man who coached him for three years in junior hockey, has sat for decades.

The tying point came one minute into the third period, and it was a quiet one: Scheifele played the puck from behind the net to Gabriel Vilardi, Vilardi found Kyle Connor in the left circle, and Connor's shot made it 6–3 and chased Jake Oettinger from the game. A secondary assist on a goal in a blowout. It also put Scheifele's name beside his old coach's at the top of a list that reaches back to 1981. "Words can't really describe how it feels, it's pretty incredible," Scheifele said. "Just the amazing player that he was and what he meant to the city of Winnipeg and what he meant to me — it's a pretty cool feeling."

The two lines, side by side, are the strangest part of this. Scheifele has reached 929 points with 378 goals and 551 assists. Hawerchuk got there with 379 goals and 550 assists. One goal and one assist, swapped, across thirty-five years. Scheifele now sits one goal behind Hawerchuk's franchise record of 379 and two assists behind Thomas Steen's franchise mark of 553 — which means the record book's next three pages could all turn in the same week.

The game itself needed rescuing first. Dallas led 2–0 after a period, Arttu Hyry scoring from the slot at 4:19 and Roope Hintz finishing a breakaway at 18:32, and Winnipeg's one answer — a Connor power-play goal — was wiped out by a successful offside challenge. Then the second period happened: five Jets goals. Dylan Samberg got the first at 1:11. Scheifele tied it 2–2 at 7:03, gathering a rebound in the low slot for his 377th career goal.

David Perron's deflection restored Dallas's lead at 11:14, his first goal as a Star, and Dawson Mercer answered at 13:55 before Scheifele's power-play one-timer from the left circle at 18:12 put Winnipeg in front for good. Mercer scored again with seven seconds left in the period, and the Jets scored the game's final six goals. Follow the game in the Game Center.

Vilardi and Connor each matched Scheifele's three points, Mercer has consecutive two-goal games, and six Jets finished with multi-point nights — all of it behind a blue line that spent most of the evening down to five men after Dylan DeMelo left with a lower-body injury the club says is week-to-week. Oettinger, who came in with a 1.99 goals-against average, gave up a season-high six goals on 27 shots before the hook. Dallas allowed eight goals for the first time in a decade; Winnipeg scored eight for the first time since December 2024. Stuart Skinner made 30 saves at the other end. Dallas had its own milestone die on a review, too: a disallowed goal for a kicking motion wiped out the assist that would have been Jamie Benn's 1,000th career point.

None of this is new ground for Scheifele, exactly — he has owned this record before. Drafted seventh overall in 2011, the relocated Jets' first-ever pick, he passed Blake Wheeler last season to become the franchise's scoring leader. Then in September the NHL folded the original Jets' history into the record book, and Hawerchuk's 929 went back on top.

The chase since then was a player climbing toward his own teacher: Hawerchuk talked a teenaged Scheifele into Barrie after his trade from Saginaw — "Dale pretty much singlehandedly talked to me to come to Barrie," Scheifele said in 2018 — and coached him there for three seasons. If there is a fitting opponent for the tying night, it was Dallas: Scheifele entered the game with 56 points against the Stars, more than he has against any other team in the league.

The win was Winnipeg's fifth straight, a season high, five weeks after a nine-game winless skid — and it moved the Jets to 9-8-3. The record itself gets its next chapter quickly. Winnipeg plays at Chicago on Saturday afternoon, and one more point makes 930 and puts Scheifele alone at the top of the book his coach built. He has four goals and four assists in his last four games. The way he is going, the only suspense in Chicago is which period it happens in.

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