Beck Malenstyn

14 points, and he takes his shots from closer than most of the men who scored 40.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2019-20	WSH	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	9:16
2021-22	WSH	12	1	0	1	+2	9	0	0	0	10	10.0	9:03
2022-23	WSH	9	1	1	2	0	2	0	0	1	7	14.3	9:55
2023-24	WSH	81	6	15	21	-1	25	0	0	1	98	6.1	14:15
2024-25	BUF	76	4	6	10	-16	29	0	0	0	67	6.0	10:32
2025-26	BUF	81	7	7	14	0	38	0	1	0	72	9.7	11:15
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	262	19	29	48	-16	103	0	1	2	258	7.4	11:48

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

7 goals and 7 assists in 81 games, even in plus-minus, at 11:15 a night with 38 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Thin, and honest about it. 72 shots on goal produced 7 goals — but 53 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 18. He goes where the goals are and does not have the hands to finish once he gets there.

That is a real distinction worth drawing. A player shooting from 18 feet and scoring 7 is a different proposition from one shooting from 35 and scoring 7; the first one is a hands problem, which sometimes improves.

The Physical Game

The job, and he does it hard. 6-3, 209, a genuine forechecker who arrives on time and heavily, and 38 penalty minutes of the useful kind.

He is fast for his size, which is the whole reason a fourth-liner is employable now in a way his 1991 counterpart would not have been.

The Intangibles

The on-ice results were poor — 45.0 per cent of the expected goals, 14th percentile, and 46.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 21st. He is a fourth-liner on a club whose fourth line was outplayed.

The goals went 23-25 against expected goals of 23.7 to 29.0 — 3 kinder than the chances, which is Buffalo’s goaltending rather than anything he did.

He is 28 and a 145th overall pick with 262 games. This is the shape of the rest of it.

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
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
25% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 2nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 778 minutes

Expected goals: 45%; 15th pct
Shot attempts: 45.8%; 18th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 25 against. Expected: 23.7 and 29.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

15th

Numbers

15th

The two rank him within 0 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 — 65 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 24.9 mph; 100th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.43 a game
Distance: 1.82 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.5 mph; 60th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 3 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 778 minutes at five-on-five

Peyton Krebs39%
Josh Dunnenow WSH38%
Jordan Greenwaynow CHI31%

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: BUF took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.0% — 6.1 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 778 minutes at five-on-five — 36th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Peyton Krebs	43.2%	46.4%	50.6%
Mattias Samuelsson	50.4%	41.1%	51.3%
Owen Power	39.1%	48.2%	52.5%

43.2% together, 46.4% for him apart and 50.6% for Krebs apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

105 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.