Roster · 2013-14 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

Season2013-14

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.

L96Alex Ovechkin78 GP · 1603 min+2.14WAR

R78Troy Brouwer82 GP · 1546 min+1.34WAR

C72Mikhail Grabovski58 GP · 914 min+1.19WAR

R70Joel Ward82 GP · 1318 min+1.10WAR

L68Marcus Johansson80 GP · 1403 min+1.05WAR

C57Eric Fehr73 GP · 1077 min+0.86WAR

C55Nicklas Backstrom82 GP · 1624 min+0.80WAR

L47Dustin Penner67 GP · 969 min+0.68WAR

R47Martin Erat70 GP · 1027 min+0.67WAR

C34Brooks Laich51 GP · 880 min+0.37WAR

L32Jason Chimera82 GP · 1264 min+0.36WAR

R26Tom Wilson82 GP · 651 min+0.24WAR

C4Jay Beagle62 GP · 697 min-0.01WAR

L4Aaron Volpatti41 GP · 302 min-0.02WAR

C—Evgeny Kuznetsov17 GP · 229 min+0.06WAR

C—Michael Latta17 GP · 131 min+0.03WAR

C—Casey Wellman13 GP · 122 min+0.02WAR

R—Chris Brown12 GP · 104 min+0.01WAR

C—Nicolas Deschamps3 GP · 21 min+0.00WAR

C—Peter LeBlanc1 GP · 9 min+0.00WAR

C—Ryan Stoa3 GP · 27 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 14

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D80John Carlson82 GP · 2010 min+1.19WAR

D76Mike Green70 GP · 1591 min+1.10WAR

D76Dmitry Orlov54 GP · 1058 min+1.10WAR

D53Karl Alzner82 GP · 1684 min+0.62WAR

D34Nate Schmidt29 GP · 542 min+0.29WAR

D22Connor Carrick34 GP · 543 min+0.16WAR

D14Steve Oleksy33 GP · 504 min+0.06WAR

D12Tyson Strachan18 GP · 312 min+0.05WAR

D12Alexander Urbom20 GP · 292 min+0.05WAR

D11John Erskine37 GP · 577 min+0.05WAR

D—Julien Brouillette10 GP · 156 min+0.02WAR

D—Patrick Wey9 GP · 131 min+0.01WAR

D—Jack Hillen13 GP · 237 min+0.01WAR

D—Cameron Schilling1 GP · 18 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 4

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

G87Braden Holtby48 GP · 2656 min+3.65WAR

G81Jaroslav Halak52 GP · 2934 min+3.18WAR

G45Michal Neuvirth15 GP · 884 min+0.95WAR

G34Philipp Grubauer17 GP · 883 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