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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Anthony Beauvillier

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Anthony Beauvillier

Washington Capitals Right Wing #72

713 games, 15 goals, and half his shots from inside 20 feet.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2016-17NYI6691524+1100021018.913:01
2017-18NYI71211536+21630213215.914:32
2018-19NYI81181028+1810415611.514:39
2019-20NYI68182139-111531313213.617:16
2020-21NYI47151328+151230510913.816:24
2021-22NYI75122234-10125011547.816:50
2022-23NYI/VAN82182240-102430517610.216:16
2023-24VAN/CHI/NSH6051217-882001054.813:35
2024-25PIT/WSH81151025+21401014910.112:52
2025-26WSH82151328+7301041559.715:48
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—713146153299-1114921226136910.715:06

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

15 goals and 13 assists in all 82 games — 28 points, plus-7, at 15:48 a night with 30 penalty minutes.

His 713th career game and his 299th point.

The Finesse Game

232 unblocked attempts, 16 goals, median 19 feet with 53 per cent from inside 20 and only 14 per cent from beyond 40.

That is a very good chart and 15 goals from it is an ordinary conversion. 13 assists in a full season is the flat part and 299 points in 713 games is the honest rate of a third-line winger.

The Physical Game

5-11, 181, and light. 30 penalty minutes.

He goes to the interior without much to bring and gets there on quickness. There is no wall game.

The Intangibles

48.3 per cent of the expected goals, 40th percentile, and 49 per cent of the shot attempts, 46th, across 1,144 minutes, with the goals level at 48-46.

Below-average chance share in 16 minutes a night, and the plus-7 on top is the usual explanation.

5 points in his last 10, 3 of them goals. He is 29, a 28th overall pick, and on his sixth organisation in 4 years. 700 games of being useful and never quite necessary.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

  • measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

  • durable· was available

    82 of 82 games

    Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,144 minutes

Expected goals
48.3%
40th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49%
47th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 48 for, 46 against. Expected: 49.9 and 53.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
38th
Numbers
40th

The two rank him within 2 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 82 games

Top speed
23.0 mph
84th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.98 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.60 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
84.0 mph
44th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

5

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 2 assists, 15 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1144 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club
WSH took 49.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.3% — 1.2 below the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 1,144 minutes at five-on-five — 77th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Dylan Strome49.0%47.6%47.4%
Alex Ovechkin51.4%46.0%47.9%
Jakob Chychrun46.7%49.1%51.7%

49.0% together, 47.6% for him apart and 47.4% for Strome apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

232 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.