Scheifele Ties Hawerchuk as Jets Rout Stars 8-3

Mark Scheifele scored two goals and added an assist on Thursday night, November 12, and the Winnipeg Jets beat the Dallas Stars 8-3 at American Airlines Center. Scheifele's three points lifted his career total to 929, tying Dale Hawerchuk for the most in Jets franchise history. Winnipeg trailed 2-0, scored five goals in the second period, and scored the game's final six goals.

The tying point came one minute into the third period. Scheifele picked up the secondary assist on Kyle Connor's goal, the one that made it 6-3 and chased Dallas starter Jake Oettinger from the game. Oettinger allowed six goals on 27 shots. Scheifele, who's 33, reached the mark in a building that had watched Dallas allow eight goals in a game for the first time since November 8, 2016.

The record exists in this form because the league rebuilt it. On September 24, 2026, the NHL announced that Winnipeg's statistical history now covers both versions of the Jets: the original team that played in Winnipeg from 1979 to 1996 and the current club, including its years in Atlanta. Hawerchuk's total, set with the first Jets, became the number Scheifele has chased ever since.

Dawson Mercer matched Scheifele goal for goal in the second period. Mercer scored at 13:55 of the second and again with 7.3 seconds left in the period, his second straight two-goal game. Mercer arrived on October 25 from New Jersey in the Connor Hellebuyck trade, and he's given Winnipeg a second scoring line it didn't have during its nine-game losing streak earlier this fall.

The rest of the scoring was spread across the lineup. Connor and Gabriel Vilardi each finished with a goal and two assists, Dylan Samberg added a goal and an assist, and Cole Koepke closed the scoring at 8-3, 14 seconds after Vilardi's goal with under five minutes left. It's the first time Winnipeg has scored eight goals in a game since December 10, 2024, an 8-1 win over Boston.

Dallas owned the shot count and lost everything else. The Stars outshot the Jets 33-30 and still gave up six straight goals after David Perron's first goal as a Star put them ahead 3-2 in the second period. Dallas coach Glen Gulutzan kept his team in a long meeting afterward, and Oettinger said it looked as if the Stars thought Winnipeg would roll over. Dallas is 10-6-2, and the loss ended its four-game point streak.

Winnipeg is 9-8-3 and has won five straight after going 0-7-2 across nine games. The Jets play in Chicago on Saturday afternoon, where one more Scheifele point gives him the franchise record outright. Dallas stays home and plays Buffalo on Saturday and Florida on Sunday, three games in four days at the arena where Thursday fell apart.