Toews Tuesday: His second career NHL goal might still be his best

As we await another 86 days until the start of the 2018-2019 NHL regular season, we here at Second City Hockey wanted to showcase some of our favorite moments provided by “Captain Serious” in a new alliteration-friendly segment called “Toews Tuesday.”

“This is the kind of talent that can bring a franchise back from death.”

With the SCH Stats Department on summer hours, we asked them to send us what they thought was the most impressive goal of the captain’s 11-year career so far. After much debate over a pound-and-a-half of Portillo’s Italian beef sandwiches and a chocolate cake shake, the stats department sent us this from 2007:

In his first week of NHL play, Jonathan Toews gave us an impressive offensive display with newly-signed rookie Patrick Kane to give Chicago an early 2-0 lead over the Colorado Avalanche. The then-19-year-old Toews received a pass from James Wisniewski at center ice, and put on a show as he undressed two Colorado defenders at the blue line, plus one more in the slot to score his second career NHL goal. His goal was labeled by then-head coach Denis Savard as the “highlight tape goal of the year.”

As fun as the goal was, we still think the call by Colorado play-by-play man Mike Haynes is the best thing about that clip. That, and the fact Toews would not shut-the-hell up about that goal for the rest of the season:

Do you have a favorite Jonathan Toews moment? Let us know in the comment section below, and we might just feature it in next week’s #ToewsTuesday