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Seth Jones

23 and 3-quarter minutes a night, and a reputation that has finally caught up with the results.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2013-14	NSH	77	6	19	25	-23	24	2	0	2	100	6.0	19:37
2014-15	NSH	82	8	19	27	+3	20	2	1	0	123	6.5	19:53
2015-16	NSH/CBJ	81	3	28	31	-14	22	1	0	0	157	1.9	22:05
2016-17	CBJ	75	12	30	42	+6	24	1	0	3	152	7.9	23:24
2017-18	CBJ	78	16	41	57	+10	30	7	0	4	249	6.4	24:36
2018-19	CBJ	75	9	37	46	+1	28	0	0	4	184	4.9	25:49
2019-20	CBJ	56	6	24	30	+10	20	2	0	0	126	4.8	25:17
2020-21	CBJ	56	5	23	28	-18	26	2	0	1	141	3.5	25:14
2021-22	CHI	78	5	46	51	-37	28	0	0	0	194	2.6	26:13
2022-23	CHI	72	12	25	37	-38	30	2	0	1	178	6.7	24:27
2023-24	CHI	67	8	23	31	-15	34	3	0	4	172	4.7	25:29
2024-25	CHI/FLA	63	9	27	36	-24	22	5	0	2	129	7.0	24:38
2025-26	FLA	52	7	25	32	-3	18	5	0	0	88	8.0	23:42
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	912	106	367	473	-142	326	32	1	21	1993	5.3	23:45

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

7 goals and 25 assists in 52 games — 32 points, minus-3, at 23:42 a night, the heaviest workload on the club. 30 games missed.

The Finesse Game

The skating is still excellent for a man 6-4 and it is the reason he has played 900 games. He carries the puck out cleanly and joins the rush without losing the gap behind him.

25 assists in 52 games is a first-pair rate. The shot is a point shot used as one — 148 unblocked attempts, median 51 feet, 7 goals, 5 of those on the power play.

The Physical Game

6-4, 213, and he defends with reach and skating rather than contact. 18 penalty minutes in 52 games of top-pair work is a low number and reflects a defenceman who is rarely beaten badly enough to have to foul.

The Intangibles

51.8 per cent of the expected goals, 69th percentile, and the same in shot attempts, 68th.

Those are perfectly respectable top-4 numbers, and after several years in Chicago where they were not, that is the story: the fourth pick in 2013 spent a long stretch being paid as a number one and posting numbers that did not support it. In a properly built structure he looks like what he probably always was — a good, mobile, slightly overpaid second-pair defenceman playing first-pair minutes.

8 points in his last 10. He is 32 and 473 points into 912 games.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 888 minutes

Expected goals: 51.8%; 69th pct
Shot attempts: 51.4%; 70th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 37 for, 35 against. Expected: 38.3 and 35.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

55th

Numbers

69th

The two rank him within 14 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 — 73 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 · 52 games

Top speed: 22.0 mph; 61st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.87 a game
Distance: 3.40 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.9 mph; 66th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 7 assists, 10 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 888 minutes at five-on-five

Niko Mikkola66%
Donovan Sebrango9%
Dmitry Kulikov8%

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: FLA took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.8% — 1.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 888 minutes at five-on-five — 46th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Niko Mikkola	53.7%	48.4%	47.9%
Carter Verhaeghe	53.7%	50.5%	51.1%
Sam Bennett	56.7%	49.2%	48.6%

53.7% together, 48.4% for him apart and 47.9% for Mikkola apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

148 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.