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John Beecher
Boston Bruins Center
Seven goals on thirty-eight shots in a first season, and the fourth percentile of chances.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | BOS | 52 | 7 | 3 | 10 | -6 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 18.4 | 10:37 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 52 | 7 | 3 | 10 | -6 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 18.4 | 10:37 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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 3 assists in 52 games — 10 points at 10:37 a night, minus-6, with 1 game-winner on 38 shots, converting at 18.42 per cent, and 24 penalty minutes. His first NHL season, at 22.
38.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 464 minutes, the 3rd percentile — the worst mark on the roster. His ice went 14-16 against an expectation of 11.71-18.57 — fourteen goals scored above expectation in 464 minutes, which is not a repeatable arrangement and should be read as the sample it is.
The Finesse Game
38 attempts at a median of 21 feet, with 49 per cent from inside 20 and 11 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 18.42 per cent on a very small number of shots.
The skating is the reason he is in the league and it is genuinely high-end for a 6-3 centre — he is one of the fastest men on this roster in a straight line and he closes on a puck carrier from further away than anyone expects.
Three assists in fifty-two games. He does not create anything and the puck skills are the thing standing between him and a real NHL role.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 220. He forechecks first and he finishes checks, and the combination of that size and that speed arriving on a defenceman is a real weapon on a fourth line.
24 penalty minutes in 52 games. He does not retaliate and he is not an agitator.
The Intangibles
Thirtieth overall in 2019, out of Michigan, and an NHL fourth-line centre at 22 after four college seasons.
A first-round pick who arrives as a fourth-line penalty killer is not a failure and is also not what a first-round pick is for. The feet are NHL-calibre now; the hands have to catch up or this is the whole career.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
15% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 1st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**He forechecks first and he finishes checks**, and the combination of that size and that speed arriving on a defenceman is a real weapon on a fourth line.”
“**He forechecks first and he finishes checks**, and the combination of that size and that speed arriving on a defenceman is a real weapon on a fourth line.”
“**He does not create anything and the puck skills are the thing standing between him and a real NHL role.**”
“24 penalty minutes in 52 games. He does not retaliate and he is not an agitator.”
“24 penalty minutes in 52 games. He does not retaliate and he is not an agitator.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 464 minutes
- Expected goals
- 38.7%
- 3rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 36.9%
- 0th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 14 for, 16 against. Expected: 11.7 and 18.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 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, 2023-24 · 52 games
- Top speed
- 23.6 mph
- 98th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.75 a game
- Distance
- 1.71 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.3 mph
- 46th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 464 minutes at five-on-five
- Oskar Steenoff the roster31%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- BOS took 49.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 38.7% — 11.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 464 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jakub Lauko | 38.6% | 38.8% | 48.1% |
| Brandon Carlo | 34.5% | 41.0% | 47.6% |
| Oskar Steen | 38.5% | 38.7% | 50.7% |
38.6% together, 38.8% for him apart and 48.1% for Lauko apart. Lauko was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
47 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.