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Today's look at our upcoming roster for the Countdown to Camp series focuses on, Jan Hejda.
Jan has been a perfect soldier, playing a lot of minutes in the Sacco era and doing so with little complaint. Then the new coaching staff came in and it seemed we had a pretty darn good defender in Mr. Hejda. He was easily our #2 defenseman for the first half of the season (I think that injury hurt him more than we thought and he came back and played less than 100% the remainder of the season). But, as he has always done, Jan soldiered on and played the playoffs with pins in his thumb to hold it in place. Let us hope that an offseason of healing can bring him back to what we saw in the first half of last season (not that he was terrible for the rest of the season).
Can Hejda regain his early season form or has age begun to catch up with him? Will Jan receive a contract extension during or after this season or do we let him walk? Do we see him paired with EJ, Barrie or other?
Jan has been a perfect soldier, playing a lot of minutes in the Sacco era and doing so with little complaint. Then the new coaching staff came in and it seemed we had a pretty darn good defender in Mr. Hejda. He was easily our #2 defenseman for the first half of the season (I think that injury hurt him more than we thought and he came back and played less than 100% the remainder of the season). But, as he has always done, Jan soldiered on and played the playoffs with pins in his thumb to hold it in place. Let us hope that an offseason of healing can bring him back to what we saw in the first half of last season (not that he was terrible for the rest of the season).
Can Hejda regain his early season form or has age begun to catch up with him? Will Jan receive a contract extension during or after this season or do we let him walk? Do we see him paired with EJ, Barrie or other?