Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Boone Jenner

Columbus Blue Jackets Center

26 games, a captaincy, and a season lost to injury on a club that needed him for reasons the standings do not record.

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
2025-26 so far
Career741199184383-6441443728186010.717:34

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

7 goals and 12 assists in 26 games for 19 points, plus-3, on 17:59 a night.

54 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 18, which has been the profile of his whole career. 26 games is the number, and it followed a season of 27.

The Finesse Game

Limited and used precisely. He is a net-front and inside-lane scorer with a quick release in traffic and no rush game at all — 70 shots in 26 games is a high rate and it comes entirely from being in the right place.

The playmaking is functional. He has scored 20 or more four times by doing exactly one thing well, which is arriving where it hurts.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 204, and among the more relentlessly physical forwards in the league. He hits, he blocks shots, he goes to the paint, and he has never adjusted the temperature.

The body has now given way twice in two seasons — 26 games and 27 the year before — and at 32 that is the whole question. A career built on being hit is a career with a fixed length.

The Intangibles

The captain, thirteen seasons in one organisation, and the man who spoke for the club in the worst month of its history.

Whatever a scouting report can measure, it does not measure that. What it can say is that a 32-year-old power forward who has played 53 games in two years should be planned around rather than counted on.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 309 minutes

Expected goals
49.4%
45th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.7%
80th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 13 for, 19 against. Expected: 13.9 and 14.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
80th
Numbers
45th

The report ranks him 35 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 78 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 309 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, 2024-25

The club
CBJ took 48.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.4% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
The role
309 minutes at five-on-five — 6th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Kent Johnson50.3%47.5%47.1%
Zach Werenski61.2%39.3%51.2%
Ivan Provorov39.1%56.0%49.0%

50.3% together, 47.5% for him apart and 47.1% for Johnson apart. Johnson was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Johnson than for him.

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

105 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.