BREAKING NEWS: Chicago Blackhawks confirm they won't re-sign captain Jonathan Toews this offseason, so tonight will be his final game as a Blackhawk.
Three-time Stanley Cup champion Jonathan Toews will play his last game with the Blackhawks on Thursday, after the team confirmed it won't be resigning him this offseason.
"I don't really have an answer right now. I'm just trying to the last few days of the season here with this group, and it's easy to think in terms of hypotheticals, of what it would be like to be in a different city, a new situation, kind of a fresh start, and just what that would feel like, and the energy that would give you," he said.
Toews, 34, helped lead the Blackhawks to three Stanley Cup championships in six years from 2010 through 2015, but the team hasn't made it past the first round of the playoffs since their last title, and has missed the playoffs altogether five of the past seven years, including this season, when they've already been eliminated from postseason contention.
"I made the decision to pull myself out, and put myself first to try and take care of my body, and do what's right for myself, and that wasn't an easy decision, obviously," he said."But having said that, it's kind of getting down to it where these last few games, and like I just mentioned, the thought kind of crosses your mind that this could be it for me in Chicago.
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