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Caleb Jones

Pittsburgh Penguins

Caleb Jones

PITDefenceJersey number #82

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2025-26 regular season

Games played
7
Goals
0
Assists
1
Points
1

How good

Among 509 defencemen, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every defenceman who played in those seasons · Sample: 165 games

No production figure in the top quarter of his pool. Top quarter in hits, which describes his role rather than his quality.

Production

Production: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points220.19
Goals180.04
Assists280.16
Shots on goal290.97
Power-play points450.02

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits781.49
Blocked shots741.42
Penalty minutes340.37

Further right means more, not better: hits, blocked shots and penalty minutes describe a role, not quality.

What adjusted per game means — not his recorded rate
Adjusted per game is the rate each percentile was computed from: his recorded rate, weighted toward recent games and pulled toward the league average by sample size, so a short career does not read as an elite one. It sits closer to average than the rate recorded, so a skater with no points in his games can still show points per game above zero.

How he got here

Each regular season

  • 2021-22: 1.14 over 51 games
  • 2022-23: 1.62 over 73 games
  • 2023-24: 1.04 over 25 games
  • 2024-25: 0.83 over 6 games
  • 2025-26: 2.14 over 7 games
  • 2026-27 projected: 1.42
Blocked shots per game played, regular season. Filled dots are finished seasons; the dotted ring is the 2026-27 projection, the per-game rate the projections board uses. GP: games played.

What next

2026-27, projected

Full-season pace · his rate times the schedule

If he plays all 84 Pittsburgh Penguins games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
16.4
Goals
3.1
Assists
13.3
Shots on goal
81.1
Power-play points
2.0
Hits
124.8
Blocked shots
119.4
Penalty minutes
31.1

Based on 165 games he has played, weighted toward recent ones. It assumes he plays all 84: injuries, scratches and trades are not modelled.

How the pace is worked out — the figure the projections board ranks on

Each figure is his per-game rate, weighted toward recent games, times the 84 games on the Pittsburgh Penguins schedule. It is the pace the projections board ranks the league on, so the figure a reader clicked there is the one at the top of this card.

Shooting

Where he shoots, and how he finishes

Shot density · 2025-26 · open play, regular season

FewerMore attempts, up to this skater’s busiest cell

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals against a league-average finisher, by season

In 2025-26 he scored 0 where a league-average finisher would score 0.2 from his chances: 0.2 fewer.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink0 G · 0.2 avg · −0.2 · 5 GP

  2. 2024-250 G · 0.1 avg · −0.1 · 4 GP

  3. 2023-240 G · 1.1 avg · −1.1 · 14 GP

  4. 2022-234 G · 5.1 avg · −1.1 · 61 GP

  5. 2021-225 G · 2.8 avg · +2.2 · 37 GP

  • Goals
  • A league-average finisher
What the ring counts — what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts

The shot model prices the chance of a goal on every unblocked attempt he took in open play during the regular season; shootouts and penalty shots are left out. Those chances are scaled so that, across the league, they add up to the goals actually scored that season, so the ring is what a league-average finisher would have scored from his attempts and each season is measured against its own average. The gap is his goals minus that; the table below lists the exact figures.

Finishing against the league average · open play, regular season

Finishing by season: goals against a league-average finisher on the same attempts
SeasonG
2025-260.20−0.2511
2024-250.10−0.149
2023-241.10−1.11424
2022-235.14−1.161127
2021-222.85+2.23769

G vs avg: goals minus what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts (Exp G, the model’s expected goals scaled to that season’s league-wide scoring).

Detail

The record

Playoffs

Playoffs, by season
SeasonGAP
2023-2430000.00011:10

2025-26 regular season by strength · G-A-P

Even strength
0 goals, 1 assist, 1 point
Power play
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points
Shorthanded
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points

Penalty-shot goals are not counted here: each one leaves these a goal and a point below his regular-season totals.

Last 10 games

Last 10 games, newest first
DateOppGAHITBLKPIM
Oct 23@ FLA000014016:39
Oct 21vs VAN000033017:59
Oct 18@ SJS300013018:51
Oct 16@ LAK000012017:36
Oct 11vs NYR101001018:10
Oct 9vs NYI000021015:21
Oct 7@ NYR100021015:36
Apr 15@ SEA000011011:22
Nov 13@ COL00002005:56
Oct 29@ SJS100011011:27
Markets · latest captured, not current

Oct 16 at Los Angeles Kings · 10:00 PM ET

The prices posted for a game already played. Open to see them.

The model has not beaten the Pinnacle closing line: shots-on-goal ROI −0.0709 [−0.0932, −0.0467] per unit over 7,171 bets in a 2025-26 backtest of 512 games. How this was measured

Pre-game snapshotCaptured Oct 1, 8:21 PM ET

This game’s markets: the posted line, the model’s projection and its chance of the over
MarketLineModel projectionModel chance of over
Anytime goal0.50.02%