It wasn’t clear why Toews left the contest, but his last shift came with 9:05 remaining in the second frame, and he wasn’t back on the ice to begin the third period.<\/p>\n
Before leaving, the 37-year-old centre logged just over 10 minutes of ice time and won six of the 10 faceoffs he took.<\/p>\n
Toews landed with his hometown Jets on a one-year, $2 million contract in the off-season, returning to the NHL after missing significant time due to long COVID and a chronic immune response syndrome diagnosis.<\/p>\n
He last played in April 2023 and took two seasons off\u00a0to focus on his health before indicating making the decision to return to hockey earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Tuesday marked the third pre-season game that Toews has played. The three-time Stanley Cup champ has been skating on a line with wingers Cole Perfetti and Nino Niederreiter.<\/p>\n
Namestnikov, meanwhile, went to the locker room after being hit from behind by Yakov Trenin into the boards late in the third period. The 32-year-old didn’t return after appearing to hit his head on the play.<\/p>\n
Before departing, Namestnikov had logged 14:28 of ice time, scored a goal and taken two shots on goal.<\/p>\n
In 2024-25, his third season with the Jets, Namestnikov scored 11 goals and 38 points while recording a plus-20 rating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn’t clear why Toews left the contest, but his last shift came with 9:05 remaining in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-181535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}