The Winnipeg Jets forward appeared to injure his arm at 2:30 when he crashed awkwardly into the end boards after tripping over the pad of Vegas Golden Knights goalie Laurent Brossoit on a breakaway. Scheifele returned to the ice a couple minutes later for a Jets power play but shortly headed to locker room after attempting a shot.
Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said after the 4-2 loss that Scheifele will be reevaluated Tuesday. The Jets trail 3-1 in the best-of-7 season heading into Game 5 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday (10 p.m. ET; ESPN2, CBC, SN, TVAS, ATTSN-RM).
"During the regular season, you have your injuries and you're playing different teams every night; some are at the bottom end of the scale, some are at the top," Bowness said. "We're playing an excellent hockey club every night, but that's what the playoffs are. We've sustained some injuries and we have to fight our way through it, and we will."
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Scheifele's injury is the second involving one of Winnipeg's top players in as many games. Defenseman Josh Morrissey, who was second on the Jets with an NHL career-high 76 points (16 goals, 60 assists) during the regular season, sustained a lower-body injury in the first period of Game 3 and will miss the rest of the series.
Scheifele had scored one goal against the Golden Knights after leading the Jets with an NHL career-high 42 during the regular season.
"It's unfortunate to lose Mark, a guy we really rely on," Winnipeg forward Blake Wheeler said. "The guys battled extremely hard. … Bad luck, I don't know, whatever you want to call it. It's not something we can really dwell on. We've got to focus on the bodies we have available. Certainly, we feel like we have enough to win on Thursday. We'd really like to have the guys that aren't able to go, but we believe in the group we've got that will go out there on Thursday and we're going to fight like [heck]."
