The actual reason Beauvilier is outscoring Horvat is that he just joined a team with an actually good power play and is playing on a top line with Elias Pettersson, who is also really good at scoring goals. The Canucks' PP1 and Pettersson lines are like... the only good things about the team.
Meanwhile Horvat went to a defensively-oriented team with a mediocre PP that just lost its best offensive player for a stretch.
So yeah. Not actually all that surprising. If Beauvilier showed up and suddenly played Selke-calibre defense and the Canucks suddenly turned into a good hockey team when he was on the ice, that would be worthy of comment. But racking up some points? Yeah, cool, that'll happen.
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