{"id":213694,"date":"2025-09-09T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213694\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:19:10","slug":"patrick-kane-jonathan-toews-return-a-great-story-for-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213694\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Kane: Jonathan Toews&#8217; return a &#8216;great story&#8217; for NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757449150_788_wyshynski_greg.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Greg WyshynskiSep 9, 2025, 03:50 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Greg Wyshynski is ESPN&#8217;s senior NHL writer.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LAS VEGAS &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"7646526a-8436-e728-6575-1b1f5d62e0bb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3735\/patrick-kane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Kane<\/a> believes the comeback of <a data-player-guid=\"1819e3b7-049b-eece-271b-0829c481f92e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3669\/jonathan-toews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Toews<\/a>, his friend and former <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e1595aca-83a9-f0b3-5621-0ef78e76d097\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-blackhawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> teammate, could be one of the best stories in the NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>Toews, 37, hasn&#8217;t played in the NHL since his final game in April 2023 with the Blackhawks, who chose not to re-sign him. Toews was limited during his final two seasons in Chicago, dealing with the effects of chronic inflammatory response syndrome and a bout with COVID-19. He signed a one-year deal with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3fb0986b-350c-b309-1dca-29e401834691\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/wpg\/winnipeg-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> in July, mounting an NHL comeback with his hometown team.<\/p>\n<p>Kane and Toews won three Stanley Cups as teammates with the Blackhawks. Toews captained that team for 14 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s awesome. Obviously with what he&#8217;s been through, to be able to put himself in a position to come back and be feeling good, I think that&#8217;s the most important thing,&#8221; Kane told ESPN on Tuesday. &#8220;It could be really a great story for the NHL and for the franchise and for him and his family. So I&#8217;m excited about watching him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toews stepped away from hockey after the Blackhawks declined to re-sign him. He said he was &#8220;not fully retiring&#8221; but would give himself &#8220;the time and space to fully heal and enjoy life to the fullest once again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In November 2024, Toews posted to social media about a five-week &#8220;healing journey&#8221; he took in India in which he said he was &#8220;happy to say things are trending&#8221; after an Ayurvedic detox.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been almost 5 years of searching for a way to heal the inflammatory and immune system issues that took me out of hockey,&#8221; Toews said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Kane, entering his third season with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"285ae6e1-8408-88cf-50ad-1a1e7be66658\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-red-wings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>, said Toews has stayed in touch with him during his former teammate&#8217;s time away from the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We talk quite a bit. He came to Chicago about a month ago, so I was able to see him there. Even obviously with him not playing the last couple of years, he&#8217;s been great &#8212; just keeping in touch and reaching out after a game every now and then. Always nice to hear from him,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kane also left the Blackhawks in 2023 when Chicago traded him to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e807ac9-f3b7-8e3b-8549-441c1e604c17\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nyr\/new-york-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s funny how your paths kind of change, right? You&#8217;re seeing each other every day for 17 years and then all of a sudden, you kind of go your separate ways,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I felt that way about some of my other teammates too, like Brent Seabrook and Duncan Keith and Patrick Sharp. These are your best friends. All of a sudden they retire or they go to a different team and you don&#8217;t see them as much. It&#8217;s kind of wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Toews potentially finishing his career in his hometown, there&#8217;s always been speculation that Kane could do the same, having grown up in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Is that something he&#8217;d consider?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know what? I feel like I&#8217;ve been pretty fortunate with the franchises that I&#8217;ve played for. Chicago. New York was a great experience, even though it didn&#8217;t work as well as I&#8217;d hoped. Now, Detroit,&#8221; Kane said. &#8220;I mean, I&#8217;ve really, really enjoyed my time there. It&#8217;s been a great place to kind of revive my career and play in a good situation and be on a team that&#8217;s on the rise.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg WyshynskiSep 9, 2025, 03:50 PM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN&#8217;s senior NHL writer. 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