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Jonathan Toews will not play next season but is not retiring (Updated: Agent says looking to return next season)

This reminds me of when I tried to stop going into a job without actually quitting, hoping that because I timed it with some managerial changes they’d just keep shipping the paycheques.

THANKS ROB for pointing my absence out to the new manager Day 1.

But yeah, will probably work out about as well for Toews if he wants to play in 24-25 after sitting this upcoming season out.
 
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OG Eberle said:
That didn't take long...

You recognize that it's possible to talk about Toews/CHI without every single thread becoming about that one event right? And thats by no means me making any slight against what happened or Kyle at all. It was horrible. Awful. Deplorable.

Do you also bring up Todd Bertuzzi everytime someone with a Red Wings logo responds? Or talk about Voynov after every Kings game? Like lets keep things seperate.
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Weird comparable considering Bertuzzi played for the Canucks when the Moore incident happened also played for 5 other teams that weren't the Wings.
 
MessierII said:
He’s a first ballot hall of famer when he does choose to retire.
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Probably if they actually had ballots....but what you mean to say is in his first year of eligibility right?

also I'm not picking on you but too many people say this when it's not true at all just like the dead puck era, stealing a term from baseball when the puck didn't change at all it's more accurately described as the clutch and grab era.
 
wetcoast said:
Probably if they actually had ballots....but what you mean to say is in his first year of eligibility right?

also I'm not picking on you but too many people say this when it's not true at all just like the dead puck era, stealing a term from baseball when the puck didn't change at all it's more accurately described as the clutch and grab era.
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Shouldn't your coast say blanket instead...?

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I can see why he doesn't want to retire as hockey has been his whole life for ... well, his whole life.

However he's got (or should have) all the money he needs to do pretty much whatever he wants for the rest of his life. He's got the cup rings to fill up most of one hand. He's got international success. He's really got nothing left to prove. Go enjoy life
 
If there's any player who can do this it's Toews. I mean, talk about playing with house money. Won 3 cups, everything internationally, conn smythe, selke and hit the 1000 game mark.

He can take all the time in the world to make sure what he wants to do. If he's healthy enough and finds the spark to play again, he could probably just pick a team to go to on low salary. If not, there's absolutely no regrets about anything and he retires as a lifetime Hawk.
 
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mjlee said:
If you disregard everything outside of the rink (which is impossible right now) and see it purely from a hockey standpoint he reminds med of Peter Forsberg who tried repeatedly to come back, retired and then unretired until he finally had to face facts that his body was finished.

I wish Toews would admit that he's not the player he once was, that at this point it's debatable whether he's even a borderline NHL player and doesn't end his days as a fourth liner signed on a 'veteran in the room' contract.
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Came to post pretty much this. We see this far too often with players and other athletes. I still cringe when I watch Ali and Tyson's last fights as a parallel example.

But yeah, Toews has had a tremendous career. He's got the money, he's got the legacy. There comes a time when you need to come to terms with "it's time to go do great things somewhere else".
 
He could potentially come back and play again.

Brian Boyle is the most recent player his age that didn’t play in the NHL or any pro hockey in any league for an entire year and then came back to play one more year after missing a year in his late 30’s.

Boyle was actually a year older than Toews is now during the season he didn’t play.

Tim Thomas, who missed an entire season 38 and came back to play at 39 also comes to mind. The biggest difference with him is that the entire league missed close to half a season anyway, due to the lockout shortened season. And the year Boyle missed was also a shortened season, though 8 games longer than the 2013 lockout year.
 
WarriorofTime said:
Toews got both money ($109 career earnings) and rings (3 Stanley Cups, 2 Olympics Golds) so he doesn't necessarily need either, but yeah can't really knock a guy for wanting to play as long as his body lets him.
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His body isn’t letting him. His autoimmune disease has ruined him and I guarantee he’d trade all of those things to have his health back. Six years ago I got mono and it ruined my life and I very likely have MS now if not that some other BS autoimmune disease.
 
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