It’s been a summer with a different feel for Andrew Ladd and the Winnipeg Jets.
The captain, who turns 30 in December, has spent time recovering from May surgery to repair a sports hernia, so he wasn’t as active as he’d have liked early in the off-season.
Ladd also said in a telephone interview from his B.C. home this week there’s a different off-season attitude about his team and teammates after they reached a franchise-record 99 points and qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs last spring.
It was the first time for that since the franchise relocated to Winnipeg in 2011.