The off-season is off to a rough start for the Winnipeg Jets.
The club announced Wednesday that captain Adam Lowry is expected to miss five to six months after undergoing hip surgery on Tuesday.
The timeline would keep him out until at least the end of October, meaning Lowry would miss the start of the 2025-26 regular season.
The Jets did not reveal the reason why Lowry required surgery, which took place on Tuesday, and came 10 days after they were eliminated from the playoffs.
Lowry, 32, scored the biggest goal of the Jets' season when he fired home the double-OT winner during Game 7 of the team's first-round playoff series against the St. Louis Blues.
A career-long Jet since being drafted in the third round (67th overall) in 2011, Lowry posted 16 goals and 18 assists in 73 regular-season games this season before adding four more tallies in the playoffs.
Over 775 career games with Winnipeg, Lowry has 121 goals and 152 assists.
Lowry is entering the final season of a five-year contract signed in 2021 worth an average of $3.25 million annually.
Winnipeg won the Presidents' Trophy with a league-best 116 points during the regular season but was eliminated in six games by the Dallas Stars during Round 2 of the playoffs.
-- With files from the Associated Press
