WINNIPEG — The playoff goal machine known as Mark Scheifele is a perfect modern-day example of how one leaves no stone unturned to reach the top.



Scheifele’s insatiable appetite to better himself as a hockey player is what fuels his upright arc to NHL superstardom.



He is a student of the game, through and through, a seeker of information in and around the game, a young man looking for any edge he can find to expand his toolbox.



Take, for example, his work with skills coach Adam Oates, whose client list now counts 45 NHL players. His players swear by that extra edge they’re adding to their game by working with Oates.



“My favourite thing for him is positionally,’’ Oates told The Athletic. “Because one thing you’ll hear about great players, let’s use Jonathan Toews as an example, the puck allows follows him; Sidney Crosby, the puck always follows him. Well, there’s reasons why. It’s a...