Ladd eager to hit the ice in Chicago
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This article was published 13/10/2011 (5109 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
CHICAGO — Bring on the hockey, Winnipeg Jets captain Andrew Ladd said this morning.
The Jets play just their second game of the new NHL season tonight at United Center (7:30 p.m., TSN national, TSN radio 1290) against the Chicago Blackhawks, the teams’ only meeting of the year.
Ladd said today he and his teammates are eager to get playing, especially now that they’re past the historic return-to-Winnipeg game last Sunday at the MTS Centre.
“I think it’s nice to just get going,” Ladd said. “We’ve played one game in 13 days (in October). There’s been a lot of waiting around and not as much hockey as we probably would have liked.
“It’s going to be nice just to start playing games and focus less on the return to Winnipeg and more on what we need to do here.”
The Jets, 0-1, have a lot of connections to the 1-1 Hawks. Ladd and defenceman Dustin Byfuglien played in Chicago when the Hawks won the 2010 Stanley Cup, and Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff was Chicago’s assistant GM then.
Byfuglien said today that friendships are no factor when the puck is dropped and that applies to tonight as well.
“Everybody’s got a job to do,” Byfuglien said. “Hitting them and knocking them down, that’s part of the job.”
tim.campbell@freepress.mb.ca
