Petes Goalie Hunter Jones Named OHL Player of the Week For First Time In Career

The Ontario Hockey League today announced that Minnesota Wild prospect Hunter Jones of the Peterborough Petes is the OHL “On the Run” Player of the Week with a 3-0 record, 1.67 goals-against average and .943 save percentage.

Jones earns the award for the first time in his OHL career after backstopping the Petes to a perfect 3-0 record. On Sunday (October 20th), he stopped 28 of 29 in Sunday's 2-1 victory over the CHL's top-ranked Oshawa Generals, earning his 40th career OHL win in the process.

A 19-year-old native of Brantford, Ont., Jones is off to a 9-1-0-0 start in the 2019-20 season, posting a league-leading 2.41 goals-against average along with a .919 save percentage and one shutout.

Jones—who is honouring the late legendary broadcaster Gary Dalliday on his goalie mask—owns a career 40-34-2-2 record over 82 career OHL regular season contests, posting a 3.54 goals-against average and .896 save percentage with four shutouts. Originally Peterborough's fifth round pick in the 2016 OHL Priority Selection, Jones was selected by the Minnesota Wild in the second round of the 2019 NHL Draft.

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