Finns received encouraging information from the Tuesday morning practice of the top team of the NHL hockey league, the Winnipeg Jets.
The defender who was on the sidelines at the beginning of the season Ville Heinola for the first time since his injury, he participated in training fully, said a member of the Jets’ media team Mitchell Clinton message service in X.
Heinola, 23, had an ankle operation in September. He returned to the ice at the end of October and was on Tuesday without a “no contact” jersey, so Heinola may soon return to games with either the NHL’s Jets or the AHL’s farm league Manitoba Moose.
Jets head coach Scott Arniel said that there is no hurry with Heinola and she can adjust herself physically to game-like situations.
Heinola, booked by the Jets in the opening round of the 2019 NHL draft, has played a minor role in the club during four seasons, playing only 35 games in the NHL.
Last season he spent the AHL in Manitoba. In the 43 matches he played, he collected 10+19=29 points.