Skip to content
Ice Lab

Left wing · #29

Beck Malenstyn

Washington Capitals Buffalo Sabres(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Delta, CAN
Draft
2016, round 5, #145 (WSH)

Career · 7 seasons

Games
105
Goals
8
Points
24
TOI per game
13:08
xGF% (5v5)
40.8%
Goals above expected
−4.6
ShowAll teamsWashington CapitalsBuffalo Sabres

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2019–20WSH3000−19:1640.0%00.439.8%
After a break: 2021–22WSH12101+29:031010.0%00.955.8%
2022–23WSH911209:55714.3%00.535.0%
2023–24WSH8161521−114:15986.1%010.839.8%
2024–25BUF764610−1610:32676.0%06.144.7%
2025–26BUF817714011:15729.7%07.645.2%
2026–27BUF3000−38:2310.0%00.025.5%
Total2 teams265192948−1911:452597.3%026.442.9%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.10.20.30.40.50.620406080100
8m10m12m14m16m20406080100Game

Player card

Model-based

How 7 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

10th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.3712th pct
  • Assists /600.5615th pct
  • ixG /600.5110th pct
  • Goals above expected−7.419th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)42.9%10th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.3%12th pct
  • Relative xGF%−6.98th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4286th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:4529th pct
  • PP time share1.6%12th pct
  • Offensive zone starts18.3%1st pct
  • Quality of competition24.0%48th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Reese JohnsonCHI0.96
  2. Cal ClutterbuckNYI0.95
  3. Tyson KozakBUF0.93
  4. Saku Maenalanen0.93
  5. Carter Rowney0.93
  6. Nathan WalkerSTL0.92

Faceoffs

How often Malenstyn wins the draw over 7 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1205+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

45.8%

54–64 · below the 1205 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

45.5%

Opponents won 49.8% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.2% against them.

Wins above average

−5

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

1.3

118 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

68%19 · +4.443%23 · +0.340%5 · +0.350%8 · +5.10%1 · –43%7 · −0.367%3 · −1.240%42 · +2.230%10 · −5.8Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone42.9% 12–16
  • Neutral zone57.9% 22–16
  • Defensive zone38.5% 20–32

By strength

  • Even strength48.6% 34–36
  • Power play50.0% 1–1
  • Shorthanded41.3% 19–27

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: −2 after a win, −27 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.0 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2021–22714.3%13.3%
2022–231100.0%99.8%
2023–245145.1%45.8%
2024–253455.9%55.0%
2025–262540.0%39.0%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−4.6 goals above expected

051020406080100Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−80−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed35.1 km/h75th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph777th pct
  • Hardest shot130.2 km/h68th pct
  • Distance skated7 km15th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.6%18th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

40.1 km/h100th pct

▲ +3.4 km/h since 2024–25

343638404221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.5 km/h, 34th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 36.5 km/h, 71st percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 38.0 km/h, 97th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 36.7 km/h, 71st percentile (76 games)2025–26: 40.1 km/h, 100th percentile (81 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

13.095th pct

▲ +4.0 since 2024–25

0510152021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 13.8, 96th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 13.5, 95th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 12.4, 92nd percentile (81 games)2024–25: 9.0, 80th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 13.0, 95th percentile (81 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km60th pct

▼ −0.0 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.3 km, 36th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 16.2 km, 90th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 15.7 km, 63rd percentile (81 games)2024–25: 15.7 km, 58th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 15.7 km, 60th percentile (81 games)

Hardest shot

139.1 km/h51st pct

▲ +1.5 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 127.1 km/h, 4th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 122.6 km/h, 1st percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 136.3 km/h, 23rd percentile (81 games)2024–25: 137.6 km/h, 37th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 139.1 km/h, 51st percentile (81 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.2%15th pct

▲ +0.1 points since 2024–25

30%35%40%45%50%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 43.1%, 68th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 35.7%, 2nd percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 34.5%, 1st percentile (81 games)2024–25: 39.1%, 16th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 39.2%, 15th percentile (81 games)