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Centre · #39

Ben Jones

Vegas Golden Knights Minnesota Wild(traded during the season)
Age
27
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
85 kg
Born
Waterloo, CAN
Draft
2017, round 7, #189 (VGK)

Career · 3 seasons

Games
56
Goals
1
Points
3
TOI per game
8:36
xGF% (5v5)
41.0%
Goals above expected
−3.2
ShowAll teamsVegas Golden KnightsMinnesota Wild

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2021–22VGK200008:0310.0%00.144.6%
After a break: 2024–25MIN26000−38:23240.0%02.038.7%
2025–26MIN28123−108:50263.8%02.242.4%
Total2 teams56123−138:36512.0%04.241.0%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.10.20.31020304050
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Player card

Model-based

How 3 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

3rd percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.122nd pct
  • Assists /600.253rd pct
  • ixG /600.5313th pct
  • Goals above expected−3.230th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)41.0%5th pct
  • CF% (5v5)39.1%1st pct
  • Relative xGF%−9.73rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.6295th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game8:362nd pct
  • PP time share0.7%7th pct
  • Offensive zone starts28.4%9th pct
  • Quality of competition23.1%15th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Jansen HarkinsANA0.92
  2. Kevin RooneyCGY0.91
  3. Adam Erne0.91
  4. Reese JohnsonMIN0.91
  5. Christian Fischer0.90
  6. Jacob Quillan0.90

Faceoffs

How often Jones wins the draw over 3 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 610+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

51.8%

85–79 · below the 610 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

51.9%

Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.

Wins above average

+3

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

4.2

164 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

66%29 · −0.852%21 · +0.957%7 · +2.767%6 · +0.856%9 · −2.160%5 · 0.060%5 · +3.249%47 · +1.337%35 · +0.7Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone53.6% 15–13
  • Neutral zone63.0% 34–20
  • Defensive zone43.9% 36–46

By strength

  • Even strength50.6% 78–76
  • Power play100.0% 2–0
  • Shorthanded62.5% 5–3

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +6 after a win, −33 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.9 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2024–252548.0%45.2%
2025–2613952.5%53.1%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−3.2 goals above expected

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Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed35.2 km/h32nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2528th pct
  • Hardest shot129.8 km/h23rd pct
  • Distance skated62 km24th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.3%3rd pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

35.2 km/h20th pct

▲ +1.2 km/h since 2024–25

3234363821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2023–24: no NHL games2021–22: 32.9 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 34.0 km/h, 3rd percentile (26 games)2025–26: 35.2 km/h, 20th percentile (28 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.157th pct

▲ +1.1 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2023–24: no NHL games2021–22: 3.7, 31st percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 5.0, 46th percentile (26 games)2025–26: 6.1, 57th percentile (28 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.0 km19th pct

▼ −0.0 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2023–24: no NHL games2021–22: 15.6 km, 49th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.1 km, 17th percentile (26 games)2025–26: 15.0 km, 19th percentile (28 games)

Hardest shot

129.8 km/h11th pct

▲ +5.6 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2023–24: no NHL games2021–22: 125.7 km/h, 3rd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 124.2 km/h, 2nd percentile (26 games)2025–26: 129.8 km/h, 11th percentile (28 games)

Offensive-zone time

37.3%4th pct

▲ +0.2 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2023–24: no NHL games2021–22: 36.1%, 1st percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 37.0%, 3rd percentile (26 games)2025–26: 37.3%, 4th percentile (28 games)