Jonathan Toews has retired from the NHL, ending a 16-season career that included three Stanley Cup championships with the Chicago Blackhawks and one final season with his hometown Winnipeg Jets.
The Jets announced the decision in a team release dated June 19, 2026. Toews, a Winnipeg, Manitoba native, was 38 and had returned to the league with Winnipeg in 2025-26 after two years away from the game.
Toews Ends Career After Winnipeg Return
Winnipeg credited Toews with 921 points in 1,149 regular-season NHL games across his time with the Jets and Blackhawks. He was selected third overall in the 2006 NHL Draft and became a Calder Trophy nominee after the 2007-08 season.
His NHL career started with a quick marker: the Jets release notes that Toews scored on his first shot in his first NHL game on Oct. 10, 2007. Chicago named him captain on July 18, 2008, when he was 20, making him the youngest captain in Blackhawks history and the third youngest in NHL history at that time.
That captaincy became the center of Chicago's championship era. The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015 with Toews leading the group, and he won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 2010.
Three Cups And A Long International Resume
Toews finished with 119 points in 137 career playoff games, according to the Jets. His individual NHL honors also included the Frank J. Selke Trophy in 2013 and the Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award in 2015.
The 2025-26 comeback season added one more note to that file. Winnipeg said Toews was a finalist for the 2026 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, awarded for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey, after returning from the two-year absence.
His international record with Canada was just as dense. Toews won Olympic gold in 2010 and 2014, World Cup of Hockey gold in 2016, World Junior Championship gold in 2006 and 2007, and medals at the 2007 and 2008 World Championships.
Those championships put him in the Triple Gold Club, a group reserved for players who have won a Stanley Cup, Olympic gold medal and World Championship gold medal. The Jets release also noted that Toews received the Order of Manitoba on July 9, 2015.