Barrie Colts head coach Dale Hawerchuk offered a few thoughts to The Winnipeg Sun following the Jets sending Mark Scheifele back to his junior team.
"They've got some pretty good top-six type forwards there," Hawerchuk said. "You've got a lot of guys you're paying big bucks to. You're not going to start sitting them out. You say, 'Hey, we could wait a year and have an extra year on his contract.' "
That left mainly fourth-line duties for Scheifele, on the wing, which is like trying to fit a square piece of crystal into a round hole — with a sledgehammer.
Fair? Hardly.
"He needs to get into a spot where he's playing with highly skilled guys who see the ice and think the way he does," Hawerchuk, the former Jets great, said. "He's not going to be a fourth-line guy. If that's what he turns out to be then you could say it didn't turn out the way you thought."
Scheifele is the first-ever player drafted by the new Jets, who went a little off the board to take him seventh overall.
"I don't have to stand here and say, 'Hey, look, our first-rounder is playing in the NHL,' " GM Kevin Cheveldayoff said. "I'm not going to sit here and say to Claude (Noel), 'Claude, you've got to play this guy on this line and this many minutes on this night.' When he's ready he's going to be able to do that on his own."
For now, Scheifele remains just another 19-year-old playing with his peers, dreaming the dream.
"I don't see this guy regressing at all," Hawerchuk said. "He's only going to get better. And this is only going to make his hunger to make it that much more."
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