{"id":92315,"date":"2025-08-23T23:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92315\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:42:06","slug":"west-notes-hintz-toews-kravtsov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92315\/","title":{"rendered":"West Notes: Hintz, Toews, Kravtsov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stars center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hintzro01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roope Hintz<\/a> has fully recovered from the broken foot he sustained late in the playoffs, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/dallas-stars-roope-hintz-injury-status-update-broken-foot-healthy-for-camp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">relays NHL.com\u2019s Tracey Myers<\/a>.\u00a0 The injury ultimately didn\u2019t need surgery and he will be ready to take part in training camp next month.\u00a0 Hintz came back for the final two games of the series before Dallas was eliminated by Edmonton but he was clearly not at his best given the injury.\u00a0 He finished fourth on the Stars in scoring last season after putting up 28 goals and 39 assists in 76 games while adding a dozen points in 17 postseason appearances.\u00a0 It was the first time in four years that he didn\u2019t reach the 30-goal mark, something he might have been able to reach had he been fully healthy during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>More from out West:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/breakingnews\/2025\/08\/22\/long-road-to-rejuvenation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike McIntyre of the Winnipeg Free Press outlines<\/a> the journey that center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/toewsjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Toews<\/a> went through to get back to being ready to give playing in the NHL another opportunity through Ayurvedic and Panchakarma treatments. The 37-year-old had to step away from playing in 2023 due to the lingering effects of long COVID and Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome.\u00a0 However, he\u2019s ready to give playing another go now after signing a one-year deal with the Jets at the start of free agency.\u00a0 The agreement pays him a base salary of $2MM while he has an additional $5MM in potential performance bonuses ranging from games played to Winnipeg\u2019s playoff success.<br \/>\nThere was a fair bit of interest in Canucks winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kravtvi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vitali Kravtsov<\/a> before Vancouver brought him back to North America, reports Thomas Drance of The Athletic (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6560879\/2025\/08\/19\/vancouver-canucks-centre-roslovic-kravtsov\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscription link<\/a>). With that in mind, the team is thought to have an internal belief that the 25-year-old will be claimed off waivers if Vancouver tries to send him to the minors.\u00a0 Kravtsov is coming off a strong KHL season and signed a one-year, two-way deal earlier this month.\u00a0 He\u2019ll need to get into 16 NHL games this coming season to remain RFA-eligible and based on this, he might have a shot at getting there even if he\u2019s cut from the Canucks in training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stars center Roope Hintz has fully recovered from the broken foot he sustained late in the playoffs, relays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,757,18015,448,54149,82,452,35595,449],"class_list":{"0":"post-92315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-jonathan-toews","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-roope-hintz","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-vancouver-canucks","16":"tag-vitali-kravtsov","17":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}