If one thing has become abundantly clear in today’s NHL, it’s that you need star power to win a Stanley Cup.



While other teams have tried their might, a quick glance at the most recent Cup-winners and their top talent reveals a pretty common trend. Be it the Pittsburgh Penguins (Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin) or the Chicago Blackhawks (Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews), the last teams standing are led by some of the league’s best players, and it seems like a prerequisite to winning in this league.



It seems like we’re past the point of Mark Scheifele being an under-appreciated (to an extent) lesser-known player in this league, but Scheifele’s play of late should inspire confidence in Jets supporters for another reason: he’s catapulted himself into that top tier of elite players, giving the Jets the pilot a club needs to fly all the way to a Stanley Cup.



Scheifele has always been an elite point producer. From the start of...