The only thing Mark Scheifele is concerning himself with these days is gold in colour.

Safe to say the green will take care of itself when the time is right.

As a pending restricted free agent coming off the best season of his young career, Scheifele is due for a significant raise and is considered a foundation piece for the Winnipeg Jets moving forward.

But negotiations are for agents and hockey men to hammer out.

Scheifele has other things to focus on as a member of Team Canada at the 2016 IIHF world men's hockey championship in Russia.

“I don't even know what's going on with (the negotiations with the Jets). That's not my job. My job is to play hockey and I'm over here to win a gold medal. My agent can take care of the rest,” Scheifele said in a telephone interview from Russia on Wednesday. “Obviously my goal is to be with Winnipeg for a long time. We'll see what all transpires this summer. But I'm going to be the same guy that I am.

“I'm going to continue to work hard to become a better hockey player each and every day. To do my job each and every day. I'm going to be in the gym a lot, getting stronger, bigger and faster. But I'm going to work on my game as well. It's another big summer for me.”

It's the second opportunity for Scheifele to suit up for Canada at the world championship, but first since 2014, when he was an NHL rookie coming back from a knee injury.

This time around the circumstances are quite a bit different, since he's coming off a career-best 61-point campaign and showing the confidence of a player whose best days are still ahead of him.

“Obviously it's a little different than the one before,” said Scheifele, who had 29 goals in 71 games last season. “I know a little bit about what to expect and every year is a new year. I've felt pretty comfortable and we have a really good group of guys here, which makes it nice. We just want to continue to build as a team.”

Scheifele has been playing on a line with Winnipegger Mark Stone of the Ottawa Senators and has produced a goal and four points in three goals.

“He's really good to play with,” said Scheifele. “He's a smart player, he reads the game well and he's an easy guy to read off as well. There's still a lot to learn about each other, but it's been good so far.”

Scheifele, 23, also generated plenty of buzz on social media while delivering several big body checks on in Monday's 8-0 win over Belarus.

“A lot of my good buddies were saying 'when did you start hitting?'” said Scheifele. “It was just one of those things that just presented the opportunity and when you get them, you're going to take it.”

Team Canada is back in action on Thursday against Germany.

There are five other members of the Jets organization playing in the tournament.

Nikolaj Ehlers, who ended the season on the top line with Blake Wheeler and Scheifele, has two goals in three games for Denmark.

Marko Dano is suiting up for Slovakia and has one assist in three games and returned to action after missing one game with an injury.

Kyle Connor, the 2015 first-rounder, sat out the last game with the United States with an undisclosed injury that is considered to be minor.

The speedy left-winger has two assists in two games so far.

Alex Burmistrov has no points in three games for Russia and the same goes for Jets prospect Ivan Telegin – who has spent the past two seasons playing in the KHL.

Naturally, there's plenty of buzz among Jets fans about the prospect of either Patrik Laine or Auston Matthews joining the team after being awarded with the second pick in the NHL Draft Lottery.

Laine already has four goals and seven points in four games for Finland, while Matthews has two goals and four points in three games with Team USA.

“They're both really special players and they're both totally different players,” said Scheifele. “Auston is a speedy centre who controls the game and is a big body. Laine has a big shot and is great on the power play.

“Obviously it's going to be exciting to see what happens on draft day. Anything to help our team get better is great for us and for us to get lucky like that (in the lottery) is huge for the organization.”