Bruins make cut from their NHL roster
One day after finally signing Tyler Johnson, the Bruins made a subtraction from their roster Tuesday, with forward Max Jones placed on waivers by the club ahead of the team’s head-to-head with Toronto.
A 6-foot-3 left-shot wing, Jones had appeared in four games for Boston this season, with zero points and a minus-4 rating while averaging 11:13 per game. Jones last appeared in a game for the Bruins on Oct. 31, and was a minus-3 in that game, which was an 8-2 pounding at the hands of the Hurricanes.
Lauded at the time of his signing for his physical play and ability to be a bottom-six energy guy, a glaring issue for the 26-year-old Jones during his brief run on Boston’s NHL roster came with his inability to stay out of the penalty box. It was as bad as it sounded, too, with Jones assessed four minor penalties in just 44:51 of total time on ice over four games, including two in the offensive zone in his penultimate B’s appearance. That had Jones on a rate of 5.35 minor penalties per 60 minutes, which was the second-highest rate among a group of 412 NHL forwards with at least 40 minutes of time on ice in 2024-25.
The decision to waive Jones comes on the heels of the aforementioned Johnson signing, which will give the Bruins an undeniably more versatile option as a fill-in compared to Jones, be it or Johnson or someone else who gets pushed out of the lineup for Johnson (such as Morgan Geekie).
Jones joins once-frequent fellow healthy scratch Riley Tufte as B’s forwards recently waived in the last few weeks, and will join Tufte in Providence should he clear waivers by 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Jones, a 2016 first-round pick who spent the first six years of his career with the Ducks, is in the first year of a two-year contract that comes with a $1 million cap hit.
