Ron Jones (ice Hockey)
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Ronald Perry Jones (born April 11, 1951) is a Canadian former professional
ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
defenceman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the l ...
. Jones was born in
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. Selected by the
Boston Bruins The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston. The Bruins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern Conference. The t ...
in the 1971 NHL Entry Draft, Jones played for the Bruins,
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, and
Washington Capitals The Washington Capitals (colloquially known as the Caps) are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. The Capitals compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NH ...
between 1972 and 1976. The rest of his career was mainly spent in the minor
American Hockey League The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental league of the National Hockey League (NHL). The league comprises 32 teams, with 26 in the United States and 6 in Cana ...
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Career statistics


Regular season and playoffs


Awards

* WCHL All-Star Team – 1971


External links

*
Profile at hockeydraftcentral.com
1951 births Living people Boston Bruins draft picks Boston Bruins players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Canadian ice hockey defencemen Edmonton Oil Kings (WCHL) players Hershey Bears players Ice hockey people from Alberta NHL first-round draft picks People from the County of Vermilion River Pittsburgh Penguins players Richmond Robins players Washington Capitals players 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-icehockey-defenceman-1950s-stub