As he skated onto the ice for warm-up ahead of Sunday’s match against the Edmonton Oilers for what would be his first game in more than two months, Marko Dano worried less about how he’d perform and more about how his body would feel.
The root of the worry for Dano, a 23-year-old winger in his third season with the Winnipeg Jets, was how his body might react to the speed and intensity of the game after missing the last 30 as a healthy scratch. The last time he had played was on Oct. 27, so it was only natural Dano wondered whether his body would fail him.