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Defence · #6

Zac Jones

New York Rangers
Age
25
Shoots
Left
Height
180 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Richmond, USA
Draft
2019, round 3, #68 (NYR)

Career · 2020–21 to 2024–25

Games
115
Goals
4
Points
28
TOI per game
15:54
xGF% (5v5)
46.6%
Goals above expected
−3.2

Season by season

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

2020–21NYR10044−214:59120.0%10.534.8%
2021–22NYR12022−715:1080.0%00.545.8%
2022–23NYR16112−215:37156.7%00.745.8%
2023–24NYR31279+114:38424.8%01.950.1%
2024–25NYR4611011017:15512.0%13.646.5%
Total1 team11542428−1015:541283.1%27.246.6%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.620406080100
12m14m16m18m20m20406080100Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2020–21 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

33rd percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.1328th pct
  • Assists /600.7969th pct
  • ixG /600.2475th pct
  • Shots /604.2059th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)46.6%29th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.7%34th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.528th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.6135th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game15:5432nd pct
  • PP time share20.4%70th pct
  • PK time share2.0%6th pct
  • Quality of competition23.7%26th pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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. Jeremy Davies0.83
  2. Ville Heinola0.82
  3. Jake BeanCBJ/CGY0.79
  4. Christian Djoos0.79
  5. Mikko Lehtonen0.77
  6. Calen AddisonMIN0.75

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

0246820406080100Game

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

−100+10+20+30

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 speed36.6 km/h88th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1135th pct
  • Hardest shot141.0 km/h32nd pct
  • Distance skated192 km43rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time42.3%59th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

36.6 km/h85th pct

▲ +2.7 km/h since 2023–24

303234363821–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 34.0 km/h, 16th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 32.2 km/h, 0th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 33.9 km/h, 12th percentile (31 games)2024–25: 36.6 km/h, 85th percentile (46 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.820th pct

▼ −0.1 since 2023–24

012321–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 0.7, 21st percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 0.0, 0th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 0.9, 24th percentile (31 games)2024–25: 0.8, 20th percentile (46 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.5 km94th pct

▲ +0.4 km since 2023–24

12.51313.51414.51521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 14.1 km, 86th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 13.7 km, 61st percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 14.2 km, 85th percentile (31 games)2024–25: 14.5 km, 94th percentile (46 games)

Hardest shot

141.0 km/h21st pct

▲ +4.2 km/h since 2023–24

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 128.5 km/h, 1st percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 131.8 km/h, 0th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 136.7 km/h, 7th percentile (31 games)2024–25: 141.0 km/h, 21st percentile (46 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.3%58th pct

▼ −0.2 points since 2023–24

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 42.8%, 68th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 43.2%, 73rd percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 42.5%, 64th percentile (31 games)2024–25: 42.3%, 58th percentile (46 games)