Seth Jones (ice hockey)
Seth Jones ( born October 3, 1994 Plano, Texas ) is an American professional ice hockey player on the position of the defender. Since July 2013 he is with the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Jones played from 2008 to 2010 junior with the Dallas Stars. When Bantam Draft 2009, the Western Hockey League ( WHL), he was selected in the first round in eleventh position of the Everett Silvertips. But Jones opted for a change in the U.S. National Team Development Program and played from then two years in the United States Hockey League. On 23 April 2012, the Silvertips Jones transferred ' WHL rights to the Portland Winter Hawks. Two weeks later, he signed a contract with the Winter Hawks of the WHL player for season 2012/13 binds to the club, after Portland gave the completion of the transfers with the Silvertips four players to Everett.
In the 2012/13 season, the WHL Winter Hawks won the best team in the preliminary round, the Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy after it took off from 72 league games the best regular season of their franchise history with 57 victories. Seth Jones ran it on in 61 games for Portland, but he scored 14 goals and 42 assists. His 56 points scorer was the league 's fourth- most among defenders and the most of a rookie defender; his plus / minus value of 46 was the league among all players field of the screen best. For these achievements, he was awarded the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy, which is awarded annually to the best rookie WHL. In the WHL playoffs 2013, the Portland Winter Hawks won by defeating the Everett Silvertips, Spokane Chiefs, Kamloops Blazers and the Edmonton Oil Kings after 1982 and 1998 Ed Chynoweth Cup her third. In the subsequent Memorial Cup 2013, the Winter Hawks lost the final game against the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with 4:6.
NHL Entry Draft 2013 Jones was selected in the first round to fourth position overall by the Nashville Predators. In July 2013, the Americans signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Nashville Predators.
Internationally
Seth Jones represented his country with the U.S. national team for the first time in 2011 at the World U -17 Hockey Challenge. In this tournament, he won the silver medal, after a final defeat against Team Canada Ontario. Additional Jones was elected to the All- Star team of the tournament. Another use for Team USA, he had at the Americans won the final match against the Swedish selection for a match in overtime in the same year at the U18 World Youth Championship 2011. In the U18 World Cup in the following year, Team USA won again after a win against the Swedish team the gold medal. Seth Jones ran it as a team captain on and scored in six games, eight points scorer and was the second best points scorer of Americans behind Nicholas Kerdiles.
Also in the U20 World Youth Championship in 2013 he beat his team in the final of the Swedish selection and thus won his third gold medal at the Junior World Championships in a row. Jones acted in this tournament as an assistant captain and scored in seven games as many points.
Awards and achievements
- 2013 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2013 Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy
- 2013 Ed Chynoweth Cup win with the Portland Winter Hawks
- 2013 CHL Top Prospect of the Year
- 2013 WHL West First All- Star Team
Internationally
- 2011 Silver medal at the World U -17 Hockey Challenge
- 2011 All- Star team at the World U -17 Hockey Challenge
- 2011 Gold medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2012 Gold medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2013 Gold medal at the U20 World Youth Championship
Career Stats
Internationally
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )