Andrew Ladd isn’t the type to step in front of a camera, arms held wide and — Ta-da! — declare he is back to 100 per cent healthy again.
But over the last couple of weeks the Winnipeg Jets captain is looking more like the player who led this club in scoring last year, not the one who opened the season fighting through the residual affects of off-season surgery for a sports hernia.
Ladd has five points (one goal, four assists) in his last seven games and, with the recent rash of injuries, has been reunited with Bryan Little and Blake Wheeler on the No.