CALGARY — Even as a master of preparation, there was nothing Mark Scheifele could do to brace himself for the phone call he took on the morning of May 17.

The news on the other end of the line was devastating, as Scheifele learned that his father, Brad, had passed away during the night after his battle with cancer.

In a hotel room in Dallas, Scheifele was stunned, left to try and pick up the pieces on a day his Winnipeg Jets were trying to stave off elimination against the Dallas Stars in Game 6 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series.

“It wasn’t the easiest of days,” Scheifele said in an exclusive interview earlier this week at Team Canada’s orientation camp in Calgary. “Really, really tough to wake up to that news. It’s tough to put into words actually how I got through that

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