They come for the Laine, they stay for the Scheifele.
As home to the NHL’s leading goal scorer in Patrik Laine and the leading point-getter in Mark Scheifele, a Winnipeg Jets team that has traditionally been one of the NHL’s worst draws on the road — sandwiched somewhere below Buffalo and above Carolina — has suddenly become the ‘it’ team everyone wants to see.
And with all that new-found cachet has come a corresponding onslaught of media attention the likes of which the Jets haven’t seen since, well, the last time a Finnish rookie grabbed the NHL by the throat.