Roster · 2010-11 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

Season2010-11

Each player is rated out of 100 against NHL players at his position. The bar underneath is his wins above replacement, on a league scale with replacement level marked.

Forwards · 21

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

L95Alex Ovechkin79 GP · 1676 min+1.98WAR

R94Alexander Semin65 GP · 1167 min+1.76WAR

C92Nicklas Backstrom77 GP · 1579 min+1.65WAR

C82Brooks Laich82 GP · 1504 min+1.28WAR

R68Mike Knuble79 GP · 1407 min+0.92WAR

L63Marcus Johansson69 GP · 1016 min+0.82WAR

C56Jason Arnott73 GP · 1133 min+0.69WAR

C49Matt Hendricks77 GP · 871 min+0.59WAR

L35Tomas Fleischmann45 GP · 727 min+0.34WAR

C34David Steckel75 GP · 884 min+0.32WAR

C31Mathieu Perreault35 GP · 415 min+0.28WAR

C29Eric Fehr52 GP · 646 min+0.26WAR

R23Matt Bradley61 GP · 634 min+0.15WAR

C22Boyd Gordon60 GP · 783 min+0.13WAR

L21Marco Sturm35 GP · 498 min+0.13WAR

L20Jason Chimera81 GP · 1064 min+0.12WAR

C15Jay Beagle31 GP · 326 min+0.08WAR

R—Andrew Gordon9 GP · 78 min+0.01WAR

L—DJ King16 GP · 91 min+0.01WAR

C—Keith Aucoin1 GP · 12 min+0.00WAR

R—Brian Willsie1 GP · 6 min+0.00WAR

Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D88John Carlson82 GP · 1847 min+1.46WAR

D83Karl Alzner82 GP · 1629 min+1.23WAR

D79Scott Hannan78 GP · 1543 min+1.02WAR

D79Mike Green49 GP · 1217 min+1.00WAR

D68Dennis Wideman75 GP · 1798 min+0.74WAR

D66Jeff Schultz72 GP · 1412 min+0.66WAR

D58John Erskine73 GP · 1073 min+0.54WAR

D20Tom Poti21 GP · 386 min+0.08WAR

D19Tyler Sloan33 GP · 403 min+0.08WAR

D—Sean Collins4 GP · 59 min+0.01WAR

D—Brian Fahey7 GP · 83 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

Goalie WAR reaches higher than a skater's, so the bar uses its own league scale.

G71Semyon Varlamov27 GP · 1560 min+3.53WAR

G70Michal Neuvirth48 GP · 2645 min+3.53WAR

G38Braden Holtby14 GP · 736 min+1.20WAR

A rating needs a minimum workload. Players below it show an em dash rather than a rank built on too few minutes, and are listed last by WAR. How this is calculated