{"id":25851,"date":"2018-03-22T21:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T01:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=25851"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T01:34:17","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-jonathan-toews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/03\/22\/chicago-blackhawks-jonathan-toews\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks Jonathan Toews Out with Upper-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blackhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> announced that center and team captain <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/toewsjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Toews<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for &#8220;a few games&#8221; with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jonathan Toews will miss a few games with an upper-body injury, Joel Quenneville said.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Lazerus (@MarkLazerus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkLazerus\/status\/976858413777989633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/toewsjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" onclick=\"sr_record_analytics_event(&#039;newsfeed_click&#039;,&#039;&#039;, sr_record_directory(),&#039;sr_tracker&#039;);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan  Toews<\/a> Injured<\/h1>\n<p>The Winnipeg native was injured late in Tuesday&#8217;s loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>. Toews exited the game early\u00a0but returned to play through the injury according to head coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/q\/quennjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Quenneville<\/a>. He appeared as late as the 18:04 mark of the third period.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, he scored 20 goals and 32 assists for 52 points. He also added 47 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 56.8 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of +5.3.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 11-year NHL career, Toews has played only for the Chicago Blackhawks. He has put up 292<i> <\/i>goals and 382 assists for 674 career points in 791 career games. He was originally drafted in the 1st round<i>, <\/i>3rd overall of the 2006 NHL draft by the Chicago Blackhawks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJonny will be out a few games here,\u201d Quenneville <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/sports\/jonathan-toews-blackhawks-injury-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said to the media<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ll re-evaluate with him next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Toews had been playing some of his best hockey of the season with four goals and eight assists in his last 10 games. He had been on the team&#8217;s top line with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/saadbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Saad<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kanepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Kane<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Toews was also hoping to play in all 82 games for the first time since the 2008-09 season, which is the only time he accomplished that feat. He has played in 80 (2010-11, 2015-16) and 81 games (2014-15) in other seasons. Toews also has scored at least 20 goals in all 11 of his NHL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The injury caps a lousy season for the vaunted Blackhawks, who were eliminated from playoff contention for the first time since the 2007-08 season. It also might prevent Toews for suiting up for Team Canada at the upcoming World Championships in Denmark. A trio of Toews, <strong><a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdavco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" onclick=\"sr_record_analytics_event(&#039;newsfeed_click&#039;,&#039;&#039;, sr_record_directory(),&#039;sr_tracker&#039;);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor  McDavid<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tavarjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Tavares<\/a> <\/strong>would form a lethal centre combination for the Canadians at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Blackhawks announced that center and team captain Jonathan Toews is sidelined for &#8220;a few games&#8221; with an upper-body injury. Jonathan Toews will miss a few games with an upper-body injury, Joel Quenneville said. &mdash; Mark Lazerus (@MarkLazerus) March 22, 2018 Jonathan Toews Injured The Winnipeg native was injured late in Tuesday&#8217;s loss to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":3580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3147,776,246,36,1501,143,299],"class_list":["post-25851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blackhawks","tag-2018-iihf-world-championships","tag-brandon-saad","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-joel-quenneville","tag-jonathan-toews","tag-patrick-kane"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}