- Darren Dreger reports Jonathan Toews will announce his retirement Friday alongside the Winnipeg Jets
- The Jets set an 11 a.m. CT presser at the Jonathan Toews Sportsplex in his hometown
- Read below for his three Cups, the Conn Smythe and how one season in Winnipeg closed it out
Jonathan Toews is hanging them up for good.
TSN’s Darren Dreger reported Thursday that the 38-year-old center will make his retirement official Friday, hand in hand with the Winnipeg Jets. The club scheduled an 11 a.m. CT press conference at the Jonathan Toews Sportsplex, the building named after the kid who grew up in town.
Here’s Dreger with the word:
This one has been building. Dreger floated Toews as likely to walk away earlier this month, and now there’s a podium and a time.
Toews ended his career right where it started. After two years away from the game battling chronic immune response syndrome and long COVID, he signed a one-year deal with his hometown Jets last summer to lace them up one more time.
He played all 82 games in 2025-26 and put up 11 goals and 18 assists. The point totals were quiet, but he still won 61.9 percent of his draws at 38. The man never forgot how to win a faceoff.
The full resume does the talking. Toews leaves with 1,149 games, 383 goals, 529 assists and 912 points. Chicago grabbed him third overall in 2006, handed him the “C,” and watched him turn into one of the best two-way centers of his era.
Three Stanley Cups. A Conn Smythe in 2010, a Selke in 2013, and a place on the league’s list of the 100 greatest players. He checked off nearly all of it before his 30th birthday.
One last gift came in January, when Toews walked back into the United Center as a visitor for the first time and got a video tribute from a Chicago crowd that never stopped loving him. Watch him talk through that homecoming:
The Jets make it official Friday morning. A Winnipeg kid, finishing in Winnipeg, after a career that booked his ticket to the Hall of Fame years ago.
