{"id":2019,"date":"2024-11-09T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2024-11-09T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T01:56:10","slug":"breaking-a%c9%b4-unexpected-%c9%b4ame-has-been-the-blackhawks-mvp-through-mo%c9%b4th-1-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: A\u0274 unexpected \u0274ame has been the Blackhawks MVP through Mo\u0274th 1 of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Although the Blackhawks have continued to look like a rebuilding team, one unexpected player has been playing lights out since Game 1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_4696,h_2641,x_0,y_94\/c_fill,w_752,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/99\/01jc703kgedpvdw6s73x.jpg\" alt=\"Oct 28, 2024; Denver, Colorado, USA; Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Seth Jones (4) controls the puck in the third period against the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\">While Connor Bedard continues to play a solid game, he\u2019s not yet the star player who\u2019s going to be the Blackhawks hands-down MVP month after month. This isn\u2019t to say Bedard won\u2019t get his fair share of mentions, as he\u2019s currently leading the team in points, but it\u2019s tough to say he\u2019s been the best overall player in the Windy City.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">Late last month, I had a few praises for Ryan Donato, who continues to play lights-out hockey. Donato currently has seven goals and 10 points, and he\u2019s still hitting opponents every chance he gets. While I strongly considered Donato, another player caught my eye and that was blueliner Seth Jones.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">Jones is currently third on the team with nine points and two goals, and with 25:46 of average total ice time, he leads all skaters in that latter category. And his game isn\u2019t just that of an all-out offensive-defenseman either, as he\u2019s landing at least two blocks per contest on average to go with 21 body checks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">While his basic stats are in order, I wanted to dive deeper and show you why, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Jones has been the Blackhawks MVP so far with some advanced numbers.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-4\">Seth Jones is serving the Blackhawks better than any skater so far<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\">While I\u2019d like to see Jones\u2019 on-ice shooting percentage increase from its current 7.9 percent at even strength, he\u2019s riding a solid on-ice save percentage, which is hovering at 90.5. He leads all defensemen in Corsi For at 49.3, and that number ranks third on the team overall, behind only Tyler Bertuzzi and Nick Foligno.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">Being on what is still a bad hockey team, I wasn\u2019t expecting Jones to be on the ice at even strength for more goals for than goals against, but a 12 to 14 ratio in that category isn\u2019t half-bad. He\u2019s also been quite the quarterback on the power play, with an on-ice shooting percentage at 5-on-4 of 19.0 percent, with eight goals total while he\u2019s in the game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">Jones has also been an incredible asset on the penalty kill, boasting an on-ice save percentage of 87.5, showing us that, regardless of the situation, he\u2019s been a solid asset at the absolute least.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">As mentioned earlier, I see Connor Bedard eventually breaking through, but for the time being, Seth Jones holds the edge over virtually every skater in the Windy City. We\u2019ll see if the same thing keeps up as the Hawks venture deeper into November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Blackhawks have continued to look like a rebuilding team, one unexpected player has been playing lights out since Game 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-blackhawks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: A\u0274 unexpected \u0274ame has been the Blackhawks MVP through Mo\u0274th 1 of the season - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: A\u0274 unexpected \u0274ame has been the Blackhawks MVP through Mo\u0274th 1 of the season - 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