DALLAS -- Winnipeg Jets forward Bryan Little is out for the season with a fractured vertebrae.
Jets head coach Paul Maurice told reporters here following his club’s morning skate that tests last night found that Little "sustained a compression fracture of his T-6 vertebrae.
"That’s as technical as I can get for you. It’s mid to lower back, so it was a significant amount of force that caused the compression fracture. And he will be out for the remainder of the regular season.
"I think it’s an eight-week injury. But coming off that injury, we would expect because it’s stable and -- again I’m not a doctor -- but it’s the big bone of your spine.