Jessica "Jess" Jones (born August 30, 1990) is a Canadian

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player, affiliated with the Toronto chapter of the

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(PWHPA). Jones was a member of the Canadian national under-18 team that competed at the inaugural IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in

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. She was selected to compete in the 2017 CWHL All-Star Game, the third All-Star Game in her

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(CWHL) career.

Playing career

Hockey Canada

Jones was a member of the Team Ontario Red squad that captured its fourth consecutive gold medal at the 2007 Canadian U18 national women's ice hockey championships. With the national under-18 team, Jones would gain three

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in a 17–0 win against

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on January 9, 2008. Two of her teammates from Team Canada's U18 roster in 2008 would one day be teammates on the

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; Laura McIntosh and

Laura Fortino Laura Michele Fortino (born January 30, 1991) is a Canadian ice hockey player for Markham Thunder. On October 3, 2011, she was named to the Team Canada roster that participated in the 2011 4 Nations Cup. Of note, she was the first overall selec ...

NCAA

Jones played with the

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program in the

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(CHA)

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of the

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from 2008 to 2012. She appeared in 138 games and amassed 154 points. In her

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season, she logged a career-best 48 points, complemented by six power play goals.

Europe

After graduating from Mercyhurst, Jones opted to play in the

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(EWHL), signing with the league’s lone Belarusian team, HK Pantera Minsk. She was the only Canadian on a roster dominated by Belarusian and Russian players but which also included expatriates Galina Larionova of Kazakhstan,

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of Slovakia, Tatyana Chizhova and Nataliya Kozachuk of Ukraine, and Kelly Buchta and Kathryn Walker of the United States. Jones finished the season as the team's leading scorer, logging 28

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and 25 assists for 53 points in just 19 games played and posting an excellent +43 plus-minus which tied for team best with Pantera’s second leading scorer, Lidiya Malyavko. That season, Jones and her teammates would compete in the

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, where she logged eight points as Pantera won the Super Cup for the first time.

CWHL

Jones was selected in the first round, third overall by the

in the

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. She made her CWHL debut with the Thunder on November 2, 2013, against the

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. The following day, Jones scored her first CWHL goal in a rematch with the Blades against

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, assisted by Lindsey Vine and Sarah Moe. Her first multi-point game was logged on February 8, 2014, against the

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. Jones logged nine points in 23 games played during her rookie CWHL season in 2013–14. During the 2014–15 season, Jones scored the first game-winning goal of her CWHL career on November 15, 2014, against the Montreal Stars; a power play goal scored on Stars' goaltender

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in the second period, with assists from Jennifer Kirk and Dania Simmonds. In addition, she was among the competitors at the

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, contested at Toronto's

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. At the conclusion of the 2014–15 campaign, Jones was the leading scorer for the Thunder with 16 points, finishing one point ahead of

for the lead. At the

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, Jones and

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both scored a

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, becoming the first competitors in CWHL All-Star Game history to achieve the feat. Jones tied for first in the league scoring race with 37 points in the 2016–17 CWHL season and co-won the

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with

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. Statistically, her finest single-game performance was a five-point effort in a January 21, 2017 road game against the

, which saw the Thunder prevail by an 8-0 margin. Jones scored a goal in each period and logged assists on a first period goal by

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and on Laura Fortino's fourth goal of the season, scored in the second period.

NWHL

On August 31, 2017, Jones signed with the

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as a free agent, joining former Thunder teammates

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and Rebecca Vint who also signed with the Beauts.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

* 2009 College Hockey America All-Rookie Team * 2009 College Hockey America All-Tournament Team * College Hockey America Player of the Week (Week of March 1, 2010) * CWHL All-Star Game (

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) * Finalist, 2017 CWHL Most Valuable Player * 2017 Angela James Bowl (co-winner with

)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Jess Living people 1990 births Buffalo Beauts players Brampton Thunder players Canadian women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey people from Ontario Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey players Professional Women's Hockey Players Association players European Women's Hockey League players