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Boone Jenner

Photo by Hugh Lee from Edmonton Alberta, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0

Boone Jenner

Washington Capitals Center #22

808 games, and 13 goals at 33.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2013-14CBJ72161329+64540512712.614:05
2014-15CBJ319817-5122028310.818:16
2015-16CBJ82301949-157791322513.316:25
2016-17CBJ82181634+14520242118.516:04
2017-18CBJ75131932+1392021877.016:28
2018-19CBJ77162238+6421131709.417:04
2019-20CBJ70111324-14362011796.218:07
2020-21CBJ418917-961107910.118:00
2021-22CBJ59232144-112280316014.420:28
2022-23CBJ68261945-325170321412.220:12
2023-24CBJ58221335-82851115514.220:06
2024-25CBJ2671219+342117010.017:59
2025-26CBJ67132538+3441031329.816:05
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—808212209421-6145844731199210.617:26

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

13 goals and 25 assists in 67 games — 38 points, plus-3, at 16:05 a night with 44 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Columbus.

His 808th career game and his 421st point.

The Finesse Game

205 unblocked attempts, 13 goals, median 22 feet with 44 per cent from inside 20 — good ice, ordinary conversion.

25 assists is a career-high sort of rate and the most encouraging thing here. 212 goals in 808 career games.

The Physical Game

6-2, 204, and one of the more physically committed forwards of his generation — he forechecks, blocks shots, wins draws, and has an injury record to prove all of it.

44 penalty minutes is moderate for the way he plays.

The Intangibles

51.4 per cent of the expected goals, 67th percentile, and 51.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 69th, across 912 minutes in Columbus, with the goals 41-38 in his favour.

Those are good figures for a 33-year-old taking hard minutes on a middling club.

He is 33, a 37th overall pick, the captain in Columbus for 6 years, and joins a Washington club that is trying to win now and needed a third-line centre who can take a defensive-zone draw. That is exactly what arrived.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 912 minutes

Expected goals
51.4%
67th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
51.4%
70th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 41 for, 38 against. Expected: 40.3 and 38.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
78th
Numbers
67th

The two rank him within 11 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 77 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 67 games

Top speed
22.3 mph
52nd pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.06 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.50 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
90.3 mph
85th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

6

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 3 assists, 25 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with CBJ · 912 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club
CBJ took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.4% — 0.2 below the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 912 minutes at five-on-five — 50th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Zach Werenski54.9%48.9%55.0%
Ivan Provorov50.0%52.2%51.5%
Sean Monahan55.9%49.4%50.6%

54.9% together, 48.9% for him apart and 55.0% for Werenski apart. He was worse away from Werenski, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Werenski did.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

205 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.