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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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Beckett Sennecke

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Beckett Sennecke

Anaheim Ducks Right Wing #45

60 points as a 19-year-old rookie, and a minus-12 that says less than it looks.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-26ANA82233760-126211219711.717:27
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—82233760-126211219711.717:27

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

All 82 games, 23 goals and 37 assists, minus-12. 17 and a half minutes a night. Rookies who play every game and finish with 60 points are rare, and most of them are not still teenagers when the season starts.

The Finesse Game

6-3 with hands that belong on a smaller player. He is a passer first — 37 assists — and the good ones are the ones made under pressure, off the wall, to a man he could not have been looking at.

His own shot selection is better than most rookies manage: 47 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, and the median was 21 feet out. He goes to the net rather than settling for the outside, which at his age is a habit worth more than the 23 goals it produced.

The Physical Game

206 pounds on a long frame, and the frame is ahead of the strength. He gets separated from pucks by men who have been in the league 5 years, and 62 penalty minutes is mostly the frustration of losing those battles rather than winning them.

This is the ordinary problem of a young big man and the ordinary solution is 2 summers.

The Intangibles

3rd overall in 2024 and a surprise at the time. The minus-12 is the number people will quote and it is the least useful one on his page: the goals went 52-57 against while he was out there but the expected goals went 59.7 to 56.7 for, so he was outscored while outplaying people. That gap is goaltending, and it was not his.

51 and a half per cent of the expected goals in a rookie season, on a team that could not keep the puck out. Ask again in 100 games, but there is nothing here that looks like a fluke.

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 · 1,171 minutes

Expected goals
51.3%
66th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.5%
78th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 52 for, 57 against. Expected: 59.7 and 56.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
67th
Numbers
66th

The two rank him within 1 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 — 75 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
22.9 mph
80th pct

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

Bursts over 20 mph
2.80 a game

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

Distance
2.86 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
95.5 mph
97th 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 — 2 goals, 3 assists, 25 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1171 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
ANA took 50.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.3% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 1,171 minutes at five-on-five — 79th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Mason McTavish50.8%51.9%47.1%
Cutter Gauthier54.1%49.6%49.1%
Jackson LaCombe48.8%52.8%53.4%

50.8% together, 51.9% for him apart and 47.1% for McTavish apart. McTavish was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for McTavish than for him.

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

311 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 24 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.