The Winnipeg Jets will very likely welcome their captain back into the fold this week, and Adam Lowry is coming into a pretty good situation.

When the curtain went up for the Jets’ regular-season schedule on home opening night Oct. 9, the loudest cheer was for hometown hero Jonathan Toews.

A very close second on the crowd meter was for captain Lowry, even though he was on the bench in a suit and not a uniform.

Suffice it to say, the response from the dressing room — perhaps Tuesday night in Los Angeles or almost certainly by Friday in San Jose — will be similar in nature.

If the quartet of Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor, Josh Morrissey and Connor Hellebuyck are the straws that stir the Jets’ drink, there is no debating that Lowry is the heart and soul of this very good hockey team.

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