No one will ever protest a paid vacation. And yet there might be one member of the Winnipeg Jets who would have just preferred to keep playing rather than disappear for a few days during the National Hockey League’s All-Star weekend.
We give you Nikolaj Ehlers, whose debut on the Jets new top line alongside Mark Scheifele and Blake Wheeler included his first NHL hat trick.
Here’s Ehlers if maybe the break came at a bad time, given how productive he was in the Jets last game:
"Maybe a little," he said with a grin.