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“We’ve got knicks and bruises on our backend,” Maurice said. “When you get into back to back on the road, sometimes it’s tough to get guys in and out, so we just want coverage there.”

MOMS ABOARD

Growing up, Adam Lowry depended on his mom to make the sacrifices necessary to allow him to pursue his NHL dream.

This week, as the Jets head out on a three-game road-trip through Chicago, Carolina and Columbus, Lowry, along with the rest of the team, will be giving back to the moms in their life. As the Jets boarding their charter to Chicago on Saturday, so to did many of the moms connected to the team.

“I think we’re all looking forward to it,” Lowry said prior to the team’s departure to Chicago on Saturday. “They did such an amazing job raising us and sacrificing their lives to allow us to pursue our dreams when we were younger, driving us to early morning practices and missing out on a lot of activities, spending a lot of weekends at the rink, a lot of early mornings and late nights, things like that. They watch all of our games, they travel, they see us on the road. To kind of finally be able to share the experience of playing in the NHL with them and for them to get a glimpse of what it’s like for us to be on the road, it’s going to be special.”



Elaine Lowry had to juggle the lives of her four children as they grew up, and often she had to do it alone as husband Dave was playing in the NHL.

“They both played huge roles in my development, in growing up and becoming the person that I am,” Adam said. “I have a brother and two sisters and my dad was on the road a lot so my mom had to coordinate with our schedules, shuttle us around constantly on the go, having to find time to cook us all dinner at different times, get there, and to be able to watch our games, keep up with the laundry in that household and stuff. She did an amazing job and on top of that, she has her own life and her interests and she’s doing marathons, ironmans, stuff like that. She somehow found time for it all. I’m very lucky to call her my mom.”

Bev Jarvis, Josh Morrissey’s mom, will also be on the trip.

“It’s just cool to be able to share the experience of a road trip her, let her see what our lives are like on the road,” Morrissey said. “We spend so much time in that environment and you can kind of try to describe it to your parents, but I think going on the team’s private plane and travelling a little bit differently than any one of us would normally would will be a cool experience for them. Hopefully, they bring us some good luck and we share a great road trip.”

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