Max Jones (ice hockey player)

United States Max Jones


Date of birth	February 17, 1998
place of birth	Rochester , Michigan , USA
size	190 cm
Weight	100 kg

position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 1st round, 24th position Anaheim Ducks

Career stations

2014-2015	USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2015-2018	London Knights
2018	Kingston Frontenacs
since 2018	Anaheim Ducks San Diego Gulls

Max Jones (born February 17, 1998 in Rochester , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League since August 2016 and for their farm team, the San Diego Gulls , in the American Hockey League plays on the position of the left winger .

Career

youth

In his youth, Max Jones played for the prestigious Detroit HoneyBaked junior program , before he switched to the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP), the central talent factory of the USA Hockey Association, for the 2014/15 season . For the selections of the NTDP, however, the winger only ran one of the usual two years in the United States Hockey League , since he moved to the Canadian Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for the London Knights the following year . There he convinced in his first season with a physical game and 52 scorer points from 63 games, while with the Knights he not only won the OHL playoffs for the J. Ross Robertson Cup , but also the subsequent Memorial Cup . As a result, the Anaheim Ducks selected him in the NHL Entry Draft 2016 in 24th position and equipped him with an entry contract in August of the same year .

For now, however, Jones returned to the OHL in London, where he only played 33 regular season games in 2016/17 due to an injury. He made his professional debut towards the end of the season for the farm team of the Ducks, the San Diego Gulls , as part of the playoffs of the American Hockey League (AHL). After Anaheim had sent the American back to the junior division for one last season, the Knights handed him over to the Kingston Frontenacs within the OHL in January 2018 and received the Russian attacker Sergei Popow as well as two draft options for the OHL Priority Selection . At the Frontenacs, he ended the 2017/18 season and at the same time his time in the junior division.

NHL

At the start of the 2018/19 season, Jones moved permanently to the Anaheim Ducks organization, which initially continued to use him in the AHL with the San Diego Gulls. There he appeared as a regular scorer, so that he made his debut for the Ducks in the National Hockey League (NHL) in January 2019 . In their line-up he played 30 games by the end of the season and has been there regularly since then.

International

Jones gained his first international experience during his time with the NTDP, with whose U17 team he took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 in November and won the silver medal there. The attacker was the top goalscorer of the tournament with seven hits, so he was included in the All-Star team. The attacker then represented his home country with the U20 national team at the U20 World Cup in 2018 and won the bronze medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2016 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
2016 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the London Knights
2016 Memorial Cup win with the London Knights

International

2014 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2014 All-Star-Team and top scorer (7) of the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2018 bronze medal at the U20 World Cup

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014/15	USA Hockey NTDP	USHL	24	5	5	10	-5	116	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	London Knights	OHL	63	28	24	52	+30	106	6th	1	1	2	+2	23
2016	London Knights	Memorial Cup							4th	2	2	4th	+3	8th
2016/17	London Knights	OHL	33	17th	19th	36	+23	65	14th	7th	5	12	+4	24
2016/17	San Diego Gulls	AHL	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	1	1	2	-1	6th
2017/18	London Knights	OHL	25th	18th	3	21st	–7	34	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL	6th	1	2	3	+1	2	9	3	1	4th	± 0	28
2018/19	San Diego Gulls	AHL	43	14th	15th	29	+7	50	8th	0	4th	4th	-1	10
2018/19	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	30th	2	3	5	-1	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	San Diego Gulls	AHL	8th	2	0	2	-4	21st	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	59	8th	4th	12	–6	36	-	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total			127	64	48	112	+47	207	29	11	7th	18th	+6	75
AHL total			51	16	15th	31	+3	71	17th	1	5	6th	-2	16
NHL overall			89	10	7th	17th	–7	50	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	United States	WHC	6th	7th	4th	11		14th
2018	United States	U20 World Cup	7th	1	1	2	-2	2
Juniors overall			13	8th	5	13		16

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹ play-downs / relegation )

family

His father Brad Jones was also an ice hockey player and played nearly 150 games for the Winnipeg Jets , Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia Flyers in the NHL in the 1980s and 1990s . His brother Mitch Jones is also a professional ice hockey player, but so far only in the third-class ECHL .

Web links

Player biography on the Anaheim Ducks website
Max Jones at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Ducks Sign LW Jones to Three-Year Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, August 26, 2016, accessed November 17, 2019 .

Squad of the Anaheim Ducks in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Jones, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rochester , Michigan , USA

[1] Ducks Sign LW Jones to Three-Year Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, August 26, 2016, accessed November 17, 2019 .