Roster · 2011-12 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

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 · 17

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

R84Troy Brouwer82 GP · 1409 min+1.40WAR

R83Alexander Semin77 GP · 1293 min+1.38WAR

L79Alex Ovechkin78 GP · 1544 min+1.24WAR

C68Mathieu Perreault64 GP · 770 min+1.00WAR

L64Marcus Johansson80 GP · 1344 min+0.91WAR

L60Jason Chimera82 GP · 1184 min+0.78WAR

C54Brooks Laich82 GP · 1517 min+0.69WAR

C52Jeff Halpern69 GP · 870 min+0.62WAR

C40Nicklas Backstrom42 GP · 805 min+0.40WAR

R37Joel Ward73 GP · 907 min+0.35WAR

C35Matt Hendricks78 GP · 946 min+0.33WAR

C24Keith Aucoin27 GP · 298 min+0.18WAR

C18Cody Eakin30 GP · 278 min+0.11WAR

C16Jay Beagle41 GP · 486 min+0.10WAR

R1Mike Knuble72 GP · 1004 min-0.02WAR

R—Joel Rechlicz3 GP · 6 min0.00WAR

L—DJ King1 GP · 7 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 10

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D62Dmitry Orlov60 GP · 1013 min+0.68WAR

D60John Carlson82 GP · 1792 min+0.65WAR

D55Dennis Wideman82 GP · 1960 min+0.61WAR

D50Jeff Schultz54 GP · 825 min+0.51WAR

D37Mike Green32 GP · 673 min+0.33WAR

D36Roman Hamrlik68 GP · 1307 min+0.32WAR

D20Karl Alzner82 GP · 1712 min+0.15WAR

D4John Erskine28 GP · 339 min-0.03WAR

D—Sean Collins2 GP · 22 min+0.00WAR

D—Tomas Kundratek5 GP · 49 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

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

G70Tomas Vokoun48 GP · 2583 min+2.66WAR

G42Braden Holtby7 GP · 361 min+0.57WAR

G33Michal Neuvirth38 GP · 2000 min+0.37WAR

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