Blake Wheeler pranked hilariously by teammates

Jets forward Blake Wheeler recently signed a new long-term contract extension with the Winnipeg Jets. Then Wheeler and his family moved into a new house. 

To congratulate him on his new purchase, one of Wheeler's teammates played a pretty solid prank on the Jets winger. According to Redditer and Wheeler neighbor CerebusArdvark, he spotted this cardboard cutout of Wheeler on the second floor of Wheeler's home:

CerebusArdvark shared his story at length over at the /r/WinnipegJets sub-reddit:

"Just a little background. I'd heard from a neighbour that Blake Wheeler had just moved into a house around the corner from my place. I'd confirmed it was true as I'd seen him out walking his dogs a couple times but hadn't run into him.

Then on Thanksgiving Monday, I was out for a walk with my youngest son and my dog. On our way home, I saw this cardboard cutout on the second floor of Wheeler's house. It was a full sized cutout of him during a game with the words "Knock for a free autograph". I thought that was very cool although a little odd.

Got home and told my wife and she immediately wanted to go over there with both our kids as we figured maybe it was some kind of thing due to their win the night before or...something.

So we go over there, knock and his wife comes to the door and I ask if Mr. Wheeler is home. She says yes and a moment later he comes to the door. I say we were wondering if we could get an autograph like the sign said....and then he just looked at me and said "What sign?". Apparently one/some of his teammates had played a practical joke on him.

So super embarrassing but he was still really cool about it and chatted with us for a couple minutes and did sign my kids jersey.

Only regret was that literally a minute or two after we left and were walking home, Byfuglien pulled up and apparently later that day Ladd and Kane were there as well."