Ex-Blackhawk Toews signing with hometown Jets

Jonathan Toews plans to motion with his hometown Winnipeg Jets erstwhile escaped bureau opens July 1, the squad announced connected societal media connected Friday.

Toews' declaration with the Jets volition beryllium for 1 twelvemonth and structured to see respective performance-based bonuses, sources told ESPN. The longtime Blackhawks captain, who led Chicago to 3 Stanley Cups, volition instrumentality to the NHL aft missing the past 2 seasons dealing with inflammatory and immune strategy issues.

Toews, 37, chose Winnipeg from a fistful of teams perusing him due to the fact that helium has a heavy tendency to triumph again; the Jets are the reigning Presidents Trophy winners, but were ousted successful the 2nd circular of the Stanley Cup playoffs by the Dallas Stars.

Toews stepped distant from hockey successful 2023 aft the Blackhawks announced they did not mean to re-sign the skipper aft his eight-year declaration expired. Chicago besides traded distant Toews' longtime teammate Patrick Kane, arsenic the franchise turned the leafage to a antithetic epoch and a afloat rebuild. Toews was constricted during his past 2 seasons successful Chicago arsenic helium dealt with the effects of Chronic Immune Response Syndrome and agelong COVID.

In November 2024, Toews posted to societal media astir a 5 week "healing journey" helium took successful India successful which helium said helium was "happy to accidental things are trending."

Toews has ramped up grooming implicit the past respective months successful mentation for an NHL comeback.

Toews, the No. 3 prime of the 2006 NHL Draft, besides helped Canada triumph golden astatine back-to-back Olympics successful 2010 and 2014. The two-way halfway scored 883 points (372 goals, 511 assists) successful 1,067 vocation games with Chicago. During the NHL's Centennial solemnisation successful 2017, Toews was named 1 of the 100 Greatest NHL Players, on with Kane and Duncan Keith.