Bryan Little’s potential return to the lineup before the end of the regular season is certainly good news, whether the Jets are ailing or not.
It also comes as a totally unexpected development, given the grim circumstances that surrounded his injury Feb. 18.
Then, the team’s No. 1 centre was levelled in a game in Tampa by Lightning defenceman Anton Stralman and was said to be done for the season because of a compression fracture in his vertebrae.
Little said he could barely walk that night and though he missed his 20th straight game Wednesday night at the MTS Centre when the Jets played the Ottawa Senators, Little’s jersey colour in practice earlier in the day said much.