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Max Jones
Boston Bruins Left Wing
Six foot three and 216 pounds of fourth-line forechecking, and nineteen goals for against thirty-four.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ANA | 30 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 3.5 | 13:10 |
| 2019-20 | ANA | 59 | 8 | 4 | 12 | -6 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 102 | 7.8 | 14:16 |
| 2020-21 | ANA | 46 | 7 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 77 | 9.1 | 14:10 |
| 2021-22 | ANA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 9:54 |
| 2022-23 | ANA | 69 | 9 | 10 | 19 | -21 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 107 | 8.4 | 12:43 |
| 2023-24 | ANA | 52 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -6 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 6.6 | 12:03 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 258 | 31 | 31 | 62 | -44 | 211 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 422 | 7.3 | 13:14 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
5 goals and 10 assists in 52 games for Anaheim — 15 points at 12:03 a night, minus-6, on 76 shots at 6.58 per cent with 33 penalty minutes.
46.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 580 minutes, the 30th percentile. His ice went 19-22 against an expectation of 21.12-24.19 — two fewer goals conceded than the chances called for, on the thirtieth-place club.
The Finesse Game
76 attempts at a median of 19 feet, with 52 per cent from inside 20 and 15 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 6.58 per cent. He shoots from the paint and does not score from it — 31 goals in 258 career games.
Ten assists. There is no distribution here and the club does not ask for it — the job is to arrive first and put the puck behind the defence.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 216. He forechecks first and hard and he finishes his checks, and it is the entire reason a forward with 31 goals in 258 games has had a six-year NHL career.
33 penalty minutes in 52 games and 211 in 258 for his career. He will fight and he takes liberties, and he is a fourth-line deterrent rather than a player.
The Intangibles
Twenty-fourth overall in 2016 by Anaheim, and 258 games and 62 points across six seasons on clubs that finished near the bottom every year.
He is 26 and was signed here in the summer. A first-round pick who becomes a fourth-line forechecker is a common outcome and a useful player, and moving from the thirtieth-place club to the sixth is the largest change of circumstance any man on this roster has had.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“**He forechecks first and hard and he finishes his checks**, and it is the entire reason a forward with 31 goals in 258 games has had a six-year NHL career.”
“**He forechecks first and hard and he finishes his checks**, and it is the entire reason a forward with 31 goals in 258 games has had a six-year NHL career.”
“He will fight and he takes liberties, and he is a fourth-line deterrent rather than a player.”
“**There is no distribution here and the club does not ask for it** — the job is to arrive first and put the puck behind the defence.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 580 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.6%
- 30th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.9%
- 17th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 19 for, 22 against. Expected: 21.1 and 24.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 59 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, 2023-24 · 52 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 87th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.54 a game
- Distance
- 1.89 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.2 mph
- 77th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 with ANA · 580 minutes at five-on-five
- Jakob Silfverbergoff the roster37%
- Bo Groulxoff the roster17%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- ANA took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.6% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 580 minutes at five-on-five — 23rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Henrique | 46.4% | 46.7% | 48.2% |
| Jakob Silfverberg | 50.5% | 44.7% | 49.4% |
| Pavel Mintyukov | 48.0% | 45.9% | 45.8% |
46.4% together, 46.7% for him apart and 48.2% for Henrique apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
110 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 52% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.