Scheifele Sets Jets Franchise Points Record

Mark Scheifele Jets Points Record Falls At 16:05 Of The Second

Chicago led 4-0 late in the second period when Josh Morrissey carried the puck down the left side and fed Scheifele in front from the goal line at 16:05. The tap-in was point No. 930 of Scheifele’s career, as the NHL’s official game recap recorded, one more than the 929 Dale Hawerchuk built with the original Jets, and it made Scheifele the franchise’s all-time points leader. The same goal was his 379th, tying Hawerchuk’s franchise goals record on the play that took the points record outright. Two minutes later Scheifele took the puck away from Spencer Knight behind the net, after the goaltender’s stick became stuck in the end boards, and set up Kyle Connor at 18:01 to cut the lead to 4-2.

The third period finished the job his record goal started. Cole Perfetti scored on the power play 55 seconds in, off a Scheifele backhand pass from behind the net, and Gabriel Vilardi tied the game 4-4 at 18:47, putting in a pass from Scheifele at the front of the net. Scheifele and Connor both scored in the shootout. His third assist of the game gave him 554 for his career, moving him past Thomas Steen’s 553 for the franchise’s all-time assists lead as well, a second record the Jets’ own official report led with alongside the points mark. Winnipeg has now won six straight, and the NHL’s game notes record the Jets as the second team in league history with multiple four-goal comeback wins inside a 12-day span, after the 5-4 overtime win at Montreal on November 3.

The Chase Took Two Games And Fifteen Seasons

Scheifele arrived in Chicago tied with Hawerchuk at 929 after two goals and an assist in Thursday’s 8-3 win in Dallas, the night covered in Scheifele Ties Hawerchuk For Jets Points Record, and the preview of this game ran as Scheifele Chases Outright Jets Record Saturday. The record he took exists in this form because the book itself changed this year: the NHL merged the statistics of both versions of the Jets, the original team that left for Arizona in 1996 and the current club established in 2011 after its years as the Atlanta Thrashers, a consolidation made possible when the Arizona Coyotes went dormant in 2024. Scheifele had already passed Blake Wheeler in October 2025 to lead the modern era; the merged book put Hawerchuk back on top, and Scheifele needed two games to close a gap of three points.

He reached 933 points in his 982nd regular-season game, every one of them for Winnipeg, as the first player the second version of the Jets ever drafted, the No. 7 pick in 2011. At 33, in his 16th NHL season, the Kitchener, Ontario centre has 26 points in 21 games this season, one year after a career-high 103 points. The Blackhawks, who got goals from Tyler Bertuzzi, Anton Frondell, Connor Bedard and Frank Nazar and 27 saves from Knight, fell to 5-13-2; Winnipeg improved to 10-8-3. There was one more Hawerchuk line in the same game: Patrick Kane’s assist on the Bedard goal gave Kane 1,410 career points, passing Hawerchuk’s 1,409 for 23rd place on the NHL’s all-time list.

Passing The Coach Who Taught Him

No record chase in the league carries this one’s personal weight. Hawerchuk coached Scheifele with the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League, and the man Scheifele passed on Saturday was his junior coach and mentor before he was a name in a record book. “It means a lot,” Scheifele said, as Sportsnet reported. “Honestly, I was always chasing Dale. It means so much. Dale was an incredible human, an incredible mentor, teacher, everything to me. I’m just so humbled and honoured to be in the same stratosphere as Dale. It’s a huge honour.” Hawerchuk died of cancer in 2020 at age 57.

The Hawerchuk family answered through the Jets on Saturday: “We congratulate Mark Scheifele on becoming the Winnipeg Jets’ all-time leader in points and assists. Dale would be so proud. He saw something special in Mark from the beginning and cherished his relationship as coach, mentor and friend. We know there is no one Dale would be more honoured to see break his points record.” The family added that they look forward to celebrating with Scheifele and Winnipeg fans when he reaches his 1,000th NHL game, 18 games away at his current pace of health. Jets coach Scott Arniel credited the group’s calm after the record goal: “It wasn’t a panic situation. We just went out and played our game.”

One Record Is Now Shared, And It Is Next

Scheifele now stands alone atop the franchise lists for points and assists, and shares the one that remains: his 379 goals tie Hawerchuk, so his next goal takes the goals record outright as well and completes a clean sweep of the three major Jets scoring marks. That is the shape of the season in Winnipeg now, a six-game win streak built on two four-goal comebacks in twelve days, with the franchise’s first-ever draft pick holding its record book. The line at the top of that book read Dale Hawerchuk for more than three decades, through a relocation, a return, and a merger of two histories. It now reads Mark Scheifele, 933 points and counting.