This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
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.
45.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 580 minutes, the 20th percentile. His ice went 19-34 against an expectation of 21.00-25.42 — nine goals conceded above expectation, 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 580 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.2%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.5%
- 14th 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, 34 against. Expected: 21.0 and 25.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 6 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 41 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 with ANA · 580 minutes at five-on-five
- Jakob Silfverbergoff the roster37%
- Adam Henriquenow EDM35%
- 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 45.2% — 0.7 below 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 | 44.1% | 45.9% | 47.9% |
| Jakob Silfverberg | 49.5% | 43.0% | 49.1% |
| Pavel Mintyukov | 46.0% | 44.8% | 46.6% |
44.1% together, 45.9% for him apart and 47.9% for Henrique apart. Henrique was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
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.