Ask any NHL player and he'll tell you Mark Scheifele has a reputation as the ultimate hockey nerd. After all, if you ask Scheifele about any NHL player, he can tell you whether he shoots left or right. But the 25-year-old Scheifele -- an ascending star who helped the Winnipeg Jets to the Western Conference finals last season with 14 goals in 17 playoff games -- has another obsession:
"I want to play until I'm 40," he said. "That's my goal. There are so many opportunities now to innovate to get a little bit of an edge, and I love exploring that.