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John Beecher
Boston Bruins Center
11 points in 78 games, and a fourth-line centre who has not yet shown why he was a first-round pick.
| 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 | BOS | 78 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -9 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 6.8 | 11:17 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 130 | 10 | 11 | 21 | -15 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 82 | 12.2 | 11:01 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
3 goals and 8 assists in 78 games for 11 points, minus-9, on 11:17 a night.
45.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 20th percentile, which is roughly the club average and therefore not a criticism. 44 shots in 78 games is.
The Finesse Game
The skating is genuinely good for a man of this size — long strides, real straight-line speed, and the ability to forecheck a defenceman into a bad decision.
Everything else is thin. 3 goals in 78 games, 8 assists, and no evidence in two NHL seasons of a shot or a passing game arriving. He was a 30th overall pick on the strength of the skating and the frame, and only the skating has translated.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 220, and he uses it on the forecheck rather than in front of either net. He arrives with weight and he is difficult to handle at speed, and he does not win many battles once the play stops.
26 penalty minutes over 78 games. Disciplined.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick, four years at Michigan, and two NHL seasons as a fourth-line centre with no sign of more.
At 24 this is close to the answer. He is a useful penalty killer with real speed, and a club that finished 27th in chance creation cannot keep giving 11 minutes a night to a forward who produces 11 points.
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.
- durable· was available
78 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
18% 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
“the ability to forecheck a defenceman into a bad decision”
“He arrives with weight and he is difficult to handle at speed”
“he does not win many battles once the play stops”
“he uses it on the forecheck rather than in front of either net”
“He is a useful penalty killer with real speed”
“3 goals in 78 games, 8 assists, and no evidence in two NHL seasons of a shot or a passing game arriving.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 737 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.9%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.4%
- 7th 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: 18 for, 30 against. Expected: 21.1 and 24.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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, 2024-25 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 76th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.21 a game
- Distance
- 1.86 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.3 mph
- 46th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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
2024-25 · 737 minutes at five-on-five
- Patrick Brownoff the roster15%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- BOS took 48.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.9% — 2.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 737 minutes at five-on-five — 32nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Kastelic | 49.8% | 41.6% | 35.1% |
| Cole Koepke | 55.3% | 37.8% | 40.2% |
| Nikita Zadorov | 43.0% | 48.0% | 50.3% |
49.8% together, 41.6% for him apart and 35.1% for Kastelic apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
73 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 56 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.