Roster · 2011-12 · Pittsburgh Penguins

Pittsburgh Penguins, by the numbers

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Pittsburgh Penguins

Season2011-12

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 · 20

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

C100Evgeni Malkin75 GP · 1574 min+2.91WAR

L96James Neal80 GP · 1528 min+2.10WAR

L95Chris Kunitz82 GP · 1502 min+2.06WAR

C85Jordan Staal62 GP · 1242 min+1.50WAR

R83Pascal Dupuis82 GP · 1388 min+1.38WAR

L77Matt Cooke82 GP · 1286 min+1.18WAR

L76Steve Sullivan79 GP · 1213 min+1.16WAR

C74Tyler Kennedy60 GP · 862 min+1.13WAR

C62Mark Letestu62 GP · 970 min+0.83WAR

R50Craig Adams82 GP · 925 min+0.60WAR

C45Sidney Crosby22 GP · 406 min+0.50WAR

C41Joe Vitale68 GP · 760 min+0.42WAR

R33Arron Asham64 GP · 591 min+0.29WAR

R30Richard Park54 GP · 589 min+0.26WAR

C24Cal O'Reilly33 GP · 421 min+0.18WAR

L20Dustin Jeffrey26 GP · 315 min+0.13WAR

L—Eric Tangradi24 GP · 215 min+0.04WAR

C—Jason Williams8 GP · 85 min+0.01WAR

R—Colin McDonald5 GP · 42 min+0.00WAR

L—Steve MacIntyre12 GP · 38 min-0.01WAR

Defense · 12

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D98Paul Martin73 GP · 1679 min+2.01WAR

D88Matt Niskanen75 GP · 1345 min+1.33WAR

D77Kris Letang51 GP · 1265 min+0.99WAR

D74Brooks Orpik73 GP · 1646 min+0.92WAR

D73Zbynek Michalek62 GP · 1342 min+0.89WAR

D58Deryk Engelland73 GP · 1179 min+0.63WAR

D18Ben Lovejoy34 GP · 451 min+0.14WAR

D9Simon Despres18 GP · 256 min+0.05WAR

D—Alexandre Picard17 GP · 223 min+0.05WAR

D—Brian Strait9 GP · 116 min+0.01WAR

D—Robert Bortuzzo6 GP · 65 min+0.01WAR

D—Carl Sneep1 GP · 16 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

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

G72Marc-Andre Fleury67 GP · 3891 min+2.74WAR

G9Brent Johnson16 GP · 811 min-0.21WAR

G4Brad Thiessen5 GP · 258 min-0.32WAR

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