Nailers Rookie Earns Final Player Of The Week Award For 2024

Jack Beck is ending 2024 on a high note.

The Wheeling Nailers’ rookie forward is the Inglasco ECHL Player of the Week for Dec. 23-29, the league announced Tuesday.

Beck, 21, scored two goals and added five assists for seven points in three games for the Nailers last week.

Last Friday, Beck assisted on Matty De St. Phalle's opening goal, then scored what turned out to be the game winning marker with 8:19 left in the third period. On Saturday, the rookie forward notched assists on three straight goals by the Nailers, who turned a 2-1 deficit into a 6-2 triumph. On Sunday, Beck netted the tying tally at the 5:40 mark of the third period, then delivered the primary assist on Atley Calvert's game winner with 10:12 to go.

Under contract to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League, the native of Richmond Hill, Ont. ranks second among ECHL rookies with 21 assists and is fourth among first-year players with 26 points in 27 games with the Nailers this season. Of his 21 assists, 16 have been primary helpers.

Prior to turning pro, Beck tallied 201 points (68-133-201) in 204 career games in the Ontario Hockey League with the Ottawa 67’s and Soo Greyhounds. He led the Greyhounds in goals (27), assists (58) and points (850 during the 2023-24 season.

Beck is the third Wheeling player to earn a league award this season, joining Sergei Murashov (November's Rookie of the Month) and Mats Lindgren (November's Plus Performer of the Month).

On behalf of Beck, a case of pucks will be donated to a Wheeling youth hockey organization by Inglasco, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, Inglasco has donated more than 51,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.

The Nailers take their league-leading 21-5-1 record into their final game of 2024 tonight at home against the Reading Royals. Puck drop is set for 6:10 Pm ET.