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Until today, Winnipeg Jets' Bryan Little has been skating in a non-contact shirt.
Of all the minor Winnipeg Jets developments at the MTS Centre this morning — including the emergency recall of forward Chase De Leo from the AHL and the signing of Providence College forward Brandon Tanev — it was Bryan Little's sweater colour that was most surprising.
Little had recently skated with his teammates but only in a non-contact, orange shirt — heartening news, at least, that the compression fracture he suffered in a game Feb. 18 in Tampa, while deemed season-ending, may not have been catastrophic.