Not good news for Ville Heinola on Day 2 of Winnipeg Jets camp

It’s similar déjà vu for Winnipeg Jets defenceman Ville Heinola — and not successful a bully mode astatine all.

Jets caput manager Scott Arniel delivered the atrocious quality pursuing the completion of Day 2 of grooming campy astatine Hockey For All Centre erstwhile helium told reporters Heinola has an corruption successful the ankle helium broke past autumn and volition beryllium sidelined for astatine slightest a week.

“This isn’t time to day. Wee’ll travel backmost connected this successful astir a week oregon truthful and spot wherever he’s at,” Arniel said. “But it’s a small much superior than what we thought. It gets you successful the gut aft what happened past year. ”

Arniel was making notation to Heinola being connected the verge of making the Jets 12 months ago, lone to  endure a breached ankle successful Winnipeg’s second-last accumulation crippled against Ottawa.

The 23-year-old Finnish bluish liner had immoderate swelling astir the ankle anterior to the commencement of camp, but a squad spokesperson told reporters the origin wasn’t determined until humor enactment results came backmost from aesculapian investigating connected Wednesday.

Defenceman Simon Lundmark was besides sidelined for Friday’s day skate aft getting deed with a changeable connected Day 1 and is considered time to day.

But the larger interest is for Heinola who volition person to hold to spot what the adjacent people of enactment volition beryllium from the Jets aesculapian staff. “I’m not a doc and I don’t play 1 connected TV,” quipped Arniel. “I’ve had large talks with him (Heinola) implicit the summertime and helium was truthful excited astir coming back. It’s a setback and these are things that marque you stronger.”

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The misfortune for Heinola means immoderate adjusting for the Jets connected the bluish enactment due to the fact that it was anticipated that Winnipeg’s first-round prime successful the 2019 NHL Entry Draft would signifier a 3rd defence brace with seasoned Colin Miller.

“Like I said yesterday, I don’t cognize wherever we’re going to beryllium erstwhile we unfastened up against the Edmonton Oilers for our archetypal crippled successful October — it’s injuries, it’s play. So close present everyone gets moved up 1 notch,” Arniel said. “It’s theirs to spell retired and execute successful signifier and amusement that they tin play. In the accumulation games, evidently immoderate of these D are going to get different look. It’s theirs to spell retired and grasp.”

That radical would see the likes of veterans Logan Stanley, Haydn Fleury and Dylan Coghlan arsenic good arsenic highly regarded rookie imaginable Elias Salomonsson.

And that accidental volition statesman with Saturday’s 7 p.m. pre-season opener astatine Canada Life Centre against the Minnesota Wild — a crippled Arniel confirmed that Heinola was expected to play in.