The Winnipeg Jets dropped a bombshell on Monday by signing of centre Mark Scheifele and goalie Connor Hellebuyck to identical seven-year contracts worth US$8.5 million a year.
Monday afternoon, a couple of hours after the Jets wrapped up their first official practice with the 23 player roster they’ll take into Wednesday’s season opener in Calgary, the Jets dropped a bombshell on the local market — and the entire National Hockey League for that matter — by announcing the signing of centre Mark Scheifele and goalie Connor Hellebuyck to identical, seven-year, US$59.5-million contract extensions with an average annual value of US$8.5 million.
And for Scheifele – who played his first ever NHL game exactly 12 years ago to the day – that means a lot because the player he grew up idolizing was former Detroit great and current Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman who spent his entire career wearing the “winged wheel.”There was plenty of speculation — and opinion — about what the Jets should or shouldn’t do as the situation played out over the summer and into the start of training camp.
Following the first on-ice session of Jets training camp on Sept. 22, both Scheifele and Hellebuyck said quite clearly they were open to remaining in Winnipeg past this season, but also added the situation was not in their total control.
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