The Winnipeg Jets are one of the hottest teams in the NHL at the moment, but Monday night they needed overtime to put away one of the league’s worst squads.
Alternate captain Mark Scheifele found a rebound and buried it past San Jose Sharks goaltender Vitek Vaneck for the 2-1 victory.
The game-winning score wasn’t just important to maintaining the team’s status as the top team in the Western Conference but it was also history-making for Scheifele.
It was his 329th career goal which allowed him to pass Ilya Kovalchuk (328) for the most in the franchise’s history.
The Jets relocated from Atlanta in 2011, when they were known as the Thrashers, and re-established the long-time Winnipeg team which had left for Arizona in 1996.
Scheifele is now the first player in franchise history to own that record having spent his whole career in Winnipeg after the relocation (drafted in 2012).
