{"id":9470,"date":"2025-01-07T03:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T03:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9470"},"modified":"2025-01-07T03:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T03:21:35","slug":"what-can-the-blackhawks-do-about-seth-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9470","title":{"rendered":"What Can The Blackhawks Do About Seth Jones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nhltradetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Seth-Jones-Blackhawks-trade-talk.jpg?resize=1000%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"ESPN Columnist Predicts Seth Jones Could Traded by Blackhawks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether they love him or hate him, Blackhawks fans everywhere have at least some sort of opinion on defenseman Seth Jones. Chicago\u2019s No. 1 blueliner (in ice time) does his team the service of playing the most minutes of any skater \u2013 before he hit IR last month, he was one of the league leaders and still ranks seventh with 25 minutes per game. On most nights, however, that\u2019s about all he does. It\u2019s clear he\u2019s not worth $9.5 million per year, Chicago\u2019s highest AAV at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>While Jones\u2019 ice time would certainly make him appear irreplaceable, it has become obvious that that\u2019s no longer the case. The Blackhawks won their final three games before Jones\u2019 return; they\u2019ve gone 1-6 since. That\u2019s not a direct effect of Jones coming back, but he hasn\u2019t exactly passed the eye test.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.allcitynetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/02\/14002301\/Seth-Jones-CHI-2024-1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Seth Jones expected to miss four weeks - CHGO Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jones is starting to hurt his team more than help, but what can the Blackhawks do about it? Chicago is beginning to realize it has a bit of a problem \u2013 the defenseman hasn\u2019t played well enough to be traded, especially with a $9.5 million AAV. But he can\u2019t be moved at all because his contract includes one of Stan Bowman\u2019s famous no-move clauses. The Blackhawks likely can\u2019t trade him, waive him or otherwise, but they can still make his burden a bit lighter.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-take-him-off-the-penalty-kill-unit\">Take Him Off The Penalty Kill Unit<\/h2>\n<p>The Blackhawks have been excellent on the PK all year, boasting a mark that is now seventh-best in the league. But in the 16 games that Jones was out, the unit was the best in the entire NHL at over 93 percent. Since he came back, they\u2019re all the way down at 21st in the league at 75 percent. That\u2019s a pretty strong correlation. Players like Wyatt Kaiser, Nolan Allan and even Louis Crevier have better numbers on the PK this season, and he\u2019s clearly hurting the team in that department.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-remove-his-alternate-captain-status\">Remove His Alternate Captain Status<\/h2>\n<p>Jones\u2019 struggles would be easier to deal with if he was a strong leader working hard to build up the next generation of Blackhawks. But over the past few seasons, he\u2019s earned a certain reputation in the locker room where he makes it clear that he doesn\u2019t want to be in Chicago. He\u2019s consistently the last guy on the ice and the first guy off it. The fact that he bailed on his media availability after the Winter Classic, sending Connor Bedard instead, only further cements his reputation as one of the most outspokenly negative players on the roster. It\u2019s unclear why he still wears the \u201cA\u201d, but it couldn\u2019t hurt to switch things up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jones is starting to hurt his team more than help, but what can the Blackhawks do about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-blackhawks","category-nfl","category-san-francisco-49ers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Can The Blackhawks Do About Seth Jones? - 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=9470\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Can The Blackhawks Do About Seth Jones? 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