“What I didn’t like about my game are easy fixes like reads (that were) second nature, were a little rusty,” Lowry said.
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Adam Lowry loves the game he plays for a living, even though he doesn’t always love the way he plays.
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“I didn’t love my game,” the Jets captain told reporters prior to Friday night’s road game against the San Jose Sharks.
After missing a dozen games because of off-season hip surgery, Lowry made his season debut in the 3-0 loss to the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night.
The Calgary native logged 14:08 of ice time. He also played 3:46 on the penalty kill. The Jets allowed one power-play goal in six attempts.
Most important to Lowry and the Jets was his status for the remainder of the road trip. After Friday night in San Jose, the Jets fly back to Los Angeles for a Sunday night encounter with the Anaheim Ducks.
“I was happy I got through the game, and my hip felt good,” Lowry said. “Going into the game I didn’t expect to feel my best or be as sharp as I would like to be, but as the game progressed I started to handle the puck a little more and my reads started to get better and I started to feel that I got my legs under me.”
Lowry didn’t get too deep into the gory details when talking about his shortcomings.
He did say his on-ice reads were a step or two behind mid-season form. But that is to be expected given his last competitive game was Game 6 against the Dallas Stars back in mid-May.
One of the mis-reads occurred on his first shift when he tried to hit Adrian Kempe, but in doing so allowed Anze Kopitar a wide-open look at Connor Hellebuyck from the slot in the first period. Fortunately, Hellebuyck was more than up to the task.
He also didn’t like his offensive zone read on Drew Doughty’s empty-net goal late in the third period.
Lowry possessed the puck near the Kings blue line, but his pass for Mark Scheifele was intercepted by Doughty in the right face-off circle seconds before the unassisted goal at 19:06.
“What I didn’t like about my game are easy fixes like reads (that were) second nature, were a little rusty,” Lowry said. “It is definitely a building block, but it was a disappointing result as you always want to come back in and have a positive impact and help the team win the game, and that wasn’t the case.”
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