{"id":234871,"date":"2025-10-10T05:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/234871\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:18:28","slug":"jonathan-toews-returns-after-two-years-gets-huge-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/234871\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Toews returns after two years, gets huge welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After sitting out the previous two seasons and looking like his NHL career was over, three-time Stanley Cup champion Jonathan Toews made his return to the NHL on Thursday night as a member of his hometown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/winnipeg_jets\/102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>. Toews, who is from Manitoba, had spent the first 15 years of his career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/chicago_blackhawks\/107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> where he was the centerpiece of their mini-dynasty in the early 2010s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Jets are hoping he can recapture some of that magic and bring much-needed championship experience to their roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was held off the scoresheet in Thursday&#8217;s 5-4 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/dallas_stars\/118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Stars<\/a>, logging 18:19 minutes of ice-time and recording one shot on goal.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Toews gets huge welcome in Winnipeg debut<\/p>\n<p>Even though Toews is new to the Jets&#8217; roster, he is still a huge star in Winnipeg. Not only for the fact that he is from there, but also because he has represented Team Canada on an international level and been a hockey superstar across the country.<\/p>\n<p>When he was introduced as part of the team&#8217;s home-opener on Thursday, he got one of the loudest and biggest ovations of the pregame ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After sitting out the previous two seasons and looking like his NHL career was over, three-time Stanley Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-234871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-winnipeg","12":"tag-winnipeg-jets","13":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115348183762434850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}