Roster · 2012-13 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

Season2012-13

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 · 16

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

L95Alex Ovechkin48 GP · 1003 min+1.64WAR

C85Nicklas Backstrom48 GP · 955 min+1.26WAR

R84Troy Brouwer47 GP · 871 min+1.26WAR

L69Marcus Johansson34 GP · 564 min+0.95WAR

R63Martin Erat45 GP · 807 min+0.88WAR

C57Mike Ribeiro48 GP · 856 min+0.81WAR

C51Eric Fehr41 GP · 548 min+0.76WAR

C47Mathieu Perreault39 GP · 455 min+0.72WAR

R46Joel Ward39 GP · 590 min+0.69WAR

L34Jason Chimera47 GP · 596 min+0.49WAR

L28Wojtek Wolski27 GP · 361 min+0.38WAR

C23Matt Hendricks48 GP · 563 min+0.32WAR

C20Jay Beagle48 GP · 581 min+0.29WAR

R3Joey Crabb26 GP · 245 min+0.10WAR

L2Aaron Volpatti33 GP · 275 min+0.10WAR

C—Brooks Laich9 GP · 149 min+0.03WAR

Defense · 12

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D76Karl Alzner48 GP · 1006 min+0.97WAR

D74Mike Green35 GP · 870 min+0.96WAR

D56John Carlson48 GP · 1105 min+0.73WAR

D44Steve Oleksy28 GP · 484 min+0.61WAR

D22Tomas Kundratek25 GP · 404 min+0.37WAR

D21Jack Hillen23 GP · 405 min+0.36WAR

D11Jeff Schultz26 GP · 371 min+0.23WAR

D3Tom Poti16 GP · 244 min+0.11WAR

D2John Erskine30 GP · 554 min+0.09WAR

D—Roman Hamrlik16 GP · 184 min+0.02WAR

D—Dmitry Orlov5 GP · 75 min+0.02WAR

D—Cameron Schilling1 GP · 12 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

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

G88Braden Holtby36 GP · 2089 min+4.67WAR

G33Michal Neuvirth13 GP · 723 min+0.79WAR

G18Philipp Grubauer2 GP · 84 min+0.27WAR

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