Report: Three-time Stanley Cup champion Jonathan Toews expected to announce retirement
One of the best players of his generation is hanging up his skates.
According to David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period, Winnipeg Jets forward Jonathan Toews will officially announce his retirement from the NHL after 16 seasons during a press conference on Friday.
Jonathan Toews is hanging up his skates. The Winnipeg Jets have scheduled an 11am CT press conference for Friday (tomorrow), where Toews will announce his retirement. 3 Cups. 1,149 career games. 912 points. 2010 Conn Smythe winner. 2013 Selke winner. 2015 Messier Awards. Great Show more
Toews returned to the game this past season after stepping away following the 2022-23 campaign due to health concerns. He signed a one-year contract with his hometown Jets, and though his numbers certainly were far from the production we saw in his prime, the fact that the 38-year-old was back in the game was something fans were happy to see. He scored 11 goals and 18 assists for 29 points in 82 games.
However, the Winnipeg native will be forever known for his time with the Chicago Blackhawks, the team that took Toews third overall in the 2006 NHL Draft.
Toews was a key part of the Blackhawks’ return to glory. After years of being a doormat for the rest of the league, he, along with the likes of Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith, helped make the Original Six franchise one of the standards in the NHL for several years. Between 2009 and 2015, Toews captained the Hawks to the Western Conference Final five times, winning Stanley Cups in 2010, 2013 and 2015. In that first championship run, at just 22 years old, he posted 29 points in 22 playoff games, ending Chicago’s 49-year championship drought, earning the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in the process.
Toews ranks fifth in games played as a Hawk (1,067), sixth in goals (372) and points (883) while sitting eighth in assists (511).
Toews appeared in 1,149 regular-season games during his NHL career, scoring 383 goals and 529 assists for 912 points. He posted 119 points in 137 postseason games as well. He was named of the league’s top 100 players of all-time during the centennial 2016-17 campaign.
On top of his NHL pedigree, Toews is a decorated player on the world stage. He won gold medals with Canada at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, the 2007 IIHF Men’s World Championship, the 2006 and 2007 World Junior Championships, the 2004 Under-17 World Hockey Challenge and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
The press conference will be held at 12 p.m. ET.