Winnipeg Jets captain Adam Lowry is out week-to-week with an upper-body injury that occurred Monday against the Utah Hockey Club.

Lowry awkwardly crashed into the boards during the first period and missed the next two periods. Winnipeg coach Scott Arniel revealed the injury timetable after Wednesday’s morning skate in Denver for a game against the Colorado Avalanche.

“Obviously a big blow,” Arniel said. “He played the rest of the period but it really affected what he was able to do.”

Wednesday’s absence will be the first of the season for the 31-year-old Lowry, who has 11 goals and 15 assists in 48 games.

“It’s a huge loss — in many ways,” Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey told The Athletic. “His dependability at both ends of the ice, his ability to play against top lines, any extracurricular stuff — he can obviously handle his own. But he also has the ability to produce and defend, I think we’ve really seen him at his best this season. On the ice, what you see, we miss. Off the ice, what people don’t see — the leadership, how he brings the guys together … We’ll miss that.”

The center is in his 11th NHL season, all with Winnipeg. Lowry has 116 goals and 149 assists in 750 career games.

–Field Level Media