Tips from hall-of-famer Oates

Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele are proven NHL playmakers, yet some last-minute tutoring from one of hockey’s all-time great puckhandlers can’t hurt, right?

Skills coach Adam Oates, the 18th-best point producer in league history, led a session Wednesday morning with his NHL clients from Winnipeg, a contingent that included the Jets captain and his centre along with forward Andrew Copp and defencemen Josh Morrissey and Dmitry Kulikov.

Oates and ex-NHLer Teddy Purcell worked with them Tuesday as well.

Scheifele said receiving tips from someone who earned a hall-of-fame career out of making defencemen and goalies looks vulnerable is time well spent, particularly with training camp looming.