The 29 year old and big dynamic scoring winger Blake Wheeler is a crucial piece to the Winnipeg jets. He's very underrated in the NHL and I wanted to go in depth on what he does for his team and his value with a 5.6 million dollar cap hit. Wheeler has 40 points so far this season which ranks him 6th in the NHL for scoring and 2nd in assists. He is on pace for 80 points this season which would would be a career high for him. His cost per point is $140,000 dollars which is the 6th cheapest on the Jets of all forwards.

A player comparable is Gabriel Landeskog who makes around 5.57 million dollars and has similar stats compared to Wheeler. Landeskog’s cost per point is $192,118 dollars who has 29 points with the Colorado Avalanche. Wheeler so far this season averages 19.18 minutes per game which is ranked 42 in the NHL of all forwards. With Wheeler being large man at 6'5" surprisingly he doesn't hit very much he only has 42 hits this year with Matt Martin as the leader with 193. This isn't alarming or anything because he is a scorer but it's just interesting how little many hits he has for being a big man.

Blake Wheeler’s point breakdown is 10 goals and 30 assists. So obviously his bread and butter is in his assists at .73 a game. But can he keep this point pace up? Wheeler only has a 9.1% shooting percentage which is ranked 235 of all forwards in the NHL. Thats pretty low, lets hope he can bring that up and not taper off in the second half of the season. So all in all Wheeler is a pretty valuable forward but needs to pick up his goal pace this year. With a career high of 28 goals there is a pretty good chance he picks up the pace this season and reach a career high in points which is currently 69 and hopefully elevate the Jets into a playoff spot and maybe their first playoff win.With his level of play he was certainly deserving of a all-star roster spot but got snubbed. Thanks for reading.





-Brett