{"id":386672,"date":"2026-01-02T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386672\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:05:09","slug":"winnipeg-jets-mark-scheifele-weighs-in-team-canada-olympic-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386672\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Mark Scheifele weighs in Team Canada Olympic snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Winnipeg Jets star Mark Scheifele believes he did all he could to make Team Canada\u2019s Olympic roster, but ultimately it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scheifele was among the most notable omissions when Canada released its roster on Wednesday, along with reigning Conn Smythe trophy winner Sam Bennett and Chicago Blackhawks star forward Connor Bedard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cObviously it was a tough day. News that you don\u2019t want,\u201d Scheifele said Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6934959\/2026\/01\/01\/mark-scheifele-team-canada-snub-olympics\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6934959\/2026\/01\/01\/mark-scheifele-team-canada-snub-olympics\/\">per TSN Hockey Insider Chris Johnston via The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cIt just shows the amount of talent in Canada. There\u2019s so many great hockey players, so many great guys. It\u2019s an honour to be part of this country just because there are so many great hockey players, and obviously I wish I was picked. God\u2019s got a plan, and you\u2019ve just got to trust it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scheifele spoke after adding two goals and an assist in a loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs to bring his season totals to 20 goals and 48 points in 39 games. The 32-year-old forward is eighth in the NHL in points this season and fourth among Canadian players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what else I could have done,\u201d Scheifele added. \u201cI\u2019m proud of the way I played all season to now. I think I\u2019m probably playing the best hockey I\u2019ve ever played in my career. That\u2019s all you\u2019ve got to do is just trust in God\u2019s plan and know there\u2019s a reason for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scheifele was also left off of Canada\u2019s roster for the 4 Nations Face-Off last winter, finishing the season with 39 goals and a career-high 87 points in 82 games. He added five goals and 11 points in 11 playoff games for the Jets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI really thought he had a real good chance of being on the team,\u201d Jets head coach Scott Arniel said Thursday. \u201cI know there\u2019s some really, really tough decisions out there \u2014 a lot of great players \u2014 but I just felt that he was so close last year. He\u2019s having a fantastic season, a great start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI mean, I\u2019m not in that coaching room [listening to] what they\u2019re looking for or what they\u2019re after, [but] I really felt that he would be a big bonus for Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scheifele could still be added to the Olympic roster as an injury replacement. Canada may be forced to make a change just days after submitting their roster if Bo Horvat is ruled out long-term after exiting the New York Islanders\u2019 loss Thursday with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets star Mark Scheifele believes he did all he could to make Team Canada\u2019s Olympic roster, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[4759,5,78,34582,4,77,18,32441,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-386672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-mark-scheifele-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476460","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-winnipeg","14":"tag-winnipeg-jets","15":"tag-winnipeg-jets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-52","16":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115826126327668065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}