{"id":312179,"date":"2025-11-20T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/312179\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:48:10","slug":"winnipeg-jets-sign-captain-adam-lowry-to-five-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/312179\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets sign captain Adam Lowry to five-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> centre and captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adam-lowry\/8476392\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adam-lowry\/8476392\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Lowry<\/a> has signed a five-year contract extension worth $25 million, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The contract carries an average annual value of $5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lowry has served as team captain since the beginning of the 2023 season, and has spent all 12 of his NHL seasons playing in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 73 games a season ago, Lowry scored a career-high 16 goals and tallied 34 points to help the Jets claim the first Presidents\u2019 Trophy in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This extension had been in the works since before the season began, after the Jets also locked up forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kyle-connor\/8478398\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kyle-connor\/8478398\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Connor<\/a> on an eight-year extension worth $96 million on October 8, just before the season began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The extension keeps the 32-year-old Lowry in Winnipeg until 2030-31, and allows him &#8211; along with Connor and star goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-hellebuyck\/8476945\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-hellebuyck\/8476945\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> &#8211; to continue to push for the first Stanley Cup Final appearance in franchise history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s an achievement that has eluded the team despite postseason appearances in seven of the past eight seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 782 career NHL games, Lowry has 122 goals and 276 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets centre and captain Adam Lowry has signed a five-year contract extension worth $25 million, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,32441],"class_list":{"0":"post-312179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-winnipeg-jets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-52"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115579748649227822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}