{"id":100367,"date":"2025-08-27T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100367\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:17:13","slug":"winnipeg-jets-offer-surprising-update-on-captain-adam-lowry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100367\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Offer Surprising Update on Captain Adam Lowry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgJ27Z9ETqF8ypRKVqkDIE3omAfIE-gx6B2DBcThVzpSWQL8rW4v5BiCAdRjzcPDx0ftlcWghnlbcLHOAS31kkqz6NFkuX1hrqfxhpEnx0QWsYj7MsUTeSWdpxanREyyuw3kYBUrRe6mPL9RsbATu68zpeqm9AQ-daVJMFDSyoid8NcwvjrzXe2zT9Nb0w7\/s6032\/USATSI_26211633.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Adam Lowry showing great progress in return from hip surgery\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"4021\" data-original-width=\"6032\" height=\"266\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26211633.jpg\" title=\"Adam Lowry, Winnipeg Jets captain\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><br \/>Winnipeg Jets captain Adam Lowry had hip surgery at the end of May, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhltraderumors.me\/2025\/05\/nhl-news-winnipeg-jets-captain-adam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was said at that time to need &#8220;five to six months&#8221; of rehab<\/a>, which would see him miss the first month or two of the 2025-26 season. But the team revealed a surprising update on Lowry on Tuesday, dropping a social media post showing their warrior captain working out on the ice.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In the most important news of the day\u2026 Lows is on the ice \ud83d\ude06 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rMvEx09hvL\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rMvEx09hvL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winnipeg Jets (@NHLJets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLJets\/status\/1960394424422203696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 26, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Lowry was dressed in full equipment, though it was merely an informal skate. But being on the ice just three months after a serious hip surgery? That&#8217;s exciting progress for the key Jets veteran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has every reason to get back into the lineup as soon as he can, as he&#8217;s going into the final season of his five-year contract ($3.25 million AAV).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The versatile Vladislav Namestnikov is set to slot into the pivot in place of Lowry on the\u00a0third line to start the season, but it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what the arrangement is once Lowry returns. And what if top prospect Brayden Yager proves ready for an opening night assignment with the big club?<\/p>\n<p>The Jets have brought in three-time Stanley Cup champion Jonathan Toews to be their second-line center, behind their star man in the middle at the top of the lineup, Mark\u00a0Scheifele.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry finished last season with 34 points on a career-high 16 goals along with 18 assists in 73 regular-season games, and added four goals in 13 playoff games, including the thrilling double-overtime winner in Game 7\u00a0of the Western Conference First Round series\u00a0against the St. Louis Blues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ADAM LOWRY IS YOUR <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GAME7?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GAME7<\/a> DOUBLE OVERTIME HERO!! \ud83e\udd2f <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLJets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NHLJets<\/a> have punched their ticket to the Second Round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StanleyCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#StanleyCup<\/a> Playoffs thanks to their captain&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Energizer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@energizer<\/a> overtime goal!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x7Fxq5nuHn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/x7Fxq5nuHn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1919228053214953549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Photo:\u00a0\u00a9 Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets captain Adam Lowry had hip surgery at the end of May, and was said at that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,19124,448,19122,4670,4408,19123,4407,19121,19120,7951,19119,82],"class_list":["post-100367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hockey-news","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-nhl-rumors","tag-nhl-teams","tag-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-nhl-trade-rumors","tag-nhl-trades","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}