Nick Jones (born June 26, 1990) is an

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former professional

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defenseman.

Career

Jones played collegiate hockey for the

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in the NCAA Men's Division I

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conference. In his

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year, Jones was named to the 2012–13 All-AHA First Team. On August 27, 2014, Jones signed his first professional contract, a one-year deal, with the

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of the AHL. Prior to the 2014–15 season, he was assigned to ECHL club, the

Indy Fuel The Indy Fuel are a minor league ice hockey team in the ECHL that began play in the 2014–15 season. Based in Fishers, Indiana, the Fuel play their home games at the Fishers Event Center, after having started play at the Indiana Farmers ...

. On September 3, 2015, Jones signed a one-year contract with ECHL's reigning champions, the

South Carolina Stingrays The South Carolina Stingrays are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in North Charleston, South Carolina. The Stingrays play in the South Division of the ECHL's Eastern Conference. They play their home games at the North Charleston ...

. In the 2015–16 season, Jones registered 19 points in 52 games from the blueline. On June 26, 2016, Jones agreed to a one-year deal with Norwegian club,

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, of the

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. On May 1, 2017, Jones signed an initial one-year contract with the

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of the

Czech Extraliga The Czech Extraliga () is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created in 1993 following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia midway through the 1992–93 Czechoslovak Extraliga season (which all Slovak and ...

. Following his second season with Plzeň in 2018–19, Jones left the Czech Republic to sign a one-year contract as a free agent with German club, Grizzlys Wolfsburg of the DEL on June 4, 2019.

Awards and honors

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* 1990 births American men's ice hockey defensemen Grizzlys Wolfsburg players Ice hockey players from Pennsylvania Indy Fuel players Living people Mercyhurst Lakers men's ice hockey players Ontario Reign (ECHL) players HC Plzeň players South Carolina Stingrays players Stjernen Hockey players Worcester Sharks players Sportspeople from Butler County, Pennsylvania American expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic American expatriate ice hockey players in Germany American expatriate ice hockey players in Norway 21st-century American sportsmen {{US-icehockey-defenseman-stub