Dave Lowry has joined the Winnipeg Jets as an assistant coach

There will be a father-son dynamic in the NHL booth this season. You might not expect Peewee-style preferential treatment.

The Winnipeg Jets announced Monday that they have added former NHL player and assistant coach Dave Lowry to Paul Maurice's staff for the 2020-21 season. Lowry has a long hockey resume that includes 19 seasons as a player and five seasons working in the NHL bench. But what makes the hire stand out is that Lowry is the father of Jets center Adam Lowry, who will enter his seventh season (and final under his current contract) with the franchise this winter.

While the father-son relationship isn't the first to make it to the NHL booth, it's unusual. While the Jets don't believe that will be an issue, it's certainly a challenge — or at least additional consideration — that the Lowry duo will have to deal with this season and possibly beyond.

Dave Lowry has bounced back and forth between head coaching gigs in the Western Hockey League and support positions at the NHL level since his playing days ended in the early 2000s. He most recently became the head coach of the WHL's Brandon Wheat Kings after two seasons as an assistant with the Los Angeles Kings and before that spent five seasons managing the WHL's Victoria Royals.

Lowry's coaching resume also includes a stint at the helm of Canada's 2016 world junior team, which failed to win a medal.

A third-round pick in the 2011 NHL draft—Winnipeg's first as a franchise—Adam Lowry has served as an important and consistent support function with the franchise. Only Blake Wheeler, Brian Little, Dustin Byfuglien and Mark Scheifele appeared in more games as the Jets provided a soft landing for the defunct Atlanta Thrashers a decade ago.

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