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Marko Dano is trapped in purgatory, in what amounts to a professional hockey version of no man’s land.
The 23-year-old Winnipeg Jets forward has been a healthy scratch for 22 consecutive games, with no end to his press-box banishment in sight. Yet the brass apparently think enough of him that they don’t want to risk losing him on waivers to another team by trying to send him down to the Manitoba Moose.
So he sits, knowing the only shot he has at seeing game action is if a couple of his teammates were to be felled by injuries or if Winnipeg’s play suddenly went into a tailspin.