The Winnipeg Jets will be without their captain for at least the first few weeks of the season.

Adam Lowry, who had hip surgery in late May, said Thursday that his recovery is progressing well and he is targeting a late-October or early-November return to game action, per The Athletic’s Murat Ates.

Lowry then joked to Ates that he will be skating in “solitary confinement” over the next few weeks to avoid aggravating the injury.

The 32-year-old had surgery 10 days after the Jets were eliminated in Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Dallas Stars.

Lowry played in all 13 of Winnipeg’s playoff games and 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.

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