Mark Scheifele tied Dale Hawerchuk for the most points in Winnipeg Jets history on Thursday night in Dallas, reaching 929 career points as the Jets beat the Dallas Stars 8-3. FINAL: Winnipeg Jets 8, Dallas Stars 3.
The tying point came one minute into the third period at American Airlines Center. Scheifele picked up the secondary assist on Kyle Connor’s 16th goal of the season, the goal that made it 6-3 and chased Dallas starter Jake Oettinger from the game, as Sportsnet’s video of the goal shows. It was Scheifele’s third point of the night, after two second period goals, and it put a current Jet level with the defining player of the original Jets for the first time.
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A Record That Only Existed Again Since September
This chase is new because the record book itself is new. On September 24, 2026, the NHL announced that the Jets’ statistical history now includes both iterations of the franchise, the original team that played in Winnipeg from 1979 to 1996 and the current version established in 2011, including its years as the Atlanta Thrashers. Under that consolidation, Hawerchuk became the franchise leader in goals with 379 and points with 929, totals he built in 713 games for the original Jets between 1981 and 1990.
Scheifele had already owned the modern version of this record once. On October 18, 2025, he passed Blake Wheeler with his 813th point to become the Jets and Thrashers franchise leader. The September ruling put one name back above him, and it happened to be the name he had been measuring himself against all along. Hawerchuk coached Scheifele for three seasons with Barrie of the Ontario Hockey League, from 2010 to 2013, before dying of cancer on August 18, 2020, at age 57.
It’s funny, I got a couple of records in my name, but at the end of the day there was always one guy I was chasing and that was Dale. He’s always been on my mind of chasing him and that makes it even cooler actually that he is a part of the new record books.
Scheifele said that to NHL.com when the consolidation was announced in September. He entered Thursday’s game with 926 points, three behind Hawerchuk, as the NHL’s game day notes recorded, and he closed the gap in one night.
Five Goals In The Second Period Turned The Game
Dallas controlled the first period. Arttu Hyry opened the scoring at 4:19 and Roope Hintz made it 2-0 at 18:32, and Winnipeg also lost defenceman Dylan DeMelo in the opening period after he got tangled up with Mikko Rantanen. DeMelo did not return, as Illegal Curve’s post-game recap detailed.
The second period flipped everything. Dylan Samberg got Winnipeg on the board at 1:11, and Scheifele tied the game 2-2 at 7:03 with his fifth goal of the season, his 377th in the NHL and his 927th career point. David Perron put Dallas back in front at 11:14, but Dawson Mercer tied it again at 13:55, finishing a play that gave Brayden Yager his first NHL assist. Scheifele then scored on the power play at 18:12, his 378th career goal and 928th point, to give the Jets their first lead, and Mercer scored his second of the period with nine seconds left to send Winnipeg to the intermission up 5-3.
Connor’s goal sixty seconds into the third period completed the record moment, and the Jets were not done. Gabriel Vilardi made it 7-3 at 15:12 and Cole Koepke scored fourteen seconds later to close an 8-3 final. Winnipeg scored eight goals in a game for the first time since December 10, 2024, and Dallas, which had not allowed eight in a game since 2016, used both of its goaltenders, with Oettinger giving up six goals on 27 shots before Casey DeSmith came in. The win was Winnipeg’s fifth straight and moved the Jets to 9-8-3, a run built the hard way after a nine game winless stretch earlier this season.
One Point From Owning The Record Outright
The assist that tied the points record also moved Scheifele’s other numbers closer to the top of the same book. It was his 551st career assist, passing Hawerchuk’s 550 and leaving him two behind Thomas Steen’s franchise record of 553 under the consolidated history. His two goals took him to 378, one behind Hawerchuk’s 379, so the next Scheifele goal will tie the goals record on the same night a single point breaks the points record.
There was a second milestone watch in the building that never landed. Dallas captain Jamie Benn entered the night with 999 career points, one short of becoming the second player to reach 1,000 with the Stars franchise, and he was held without a point in the loss. The milestone that did arrive belonged to the visitors, and to a player chasing his former junior coach.
The first chance to own the record outright comes Saturday, when the Jets visit the Chicago Blackhawks. One point makes Mark Scheifele the highest scoring player in Winnipeg Jets history under the record book that finally holds both eras of the team in one place, seven weeks after that book was rewritten to put Dale Hawerchuk back on top of it.
