Roster · 2015-16 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

Season2015-16

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.

L100Alex Ovechkin79 GP · 1604 min+2.97WAR

R87T.J. Oshie80 GP · 1517 min+1.56WAR

C85Nicklas Backstrom75 GP · 1439 min+1.48WAR

C83Evgeny Kuznetsov82 GP · 1428 min+1.41WAR

L81Marcus Johansson74 GP · 1231 min+1.36WAR

L76Andre Burakovsky79 GP · 1029 min+1.21WAR

R75Justin Williams82 GP · 1366 min+1.19WAR

L63Jason Chimera82 GP · 1152 min+0.93WAR

L60Daniel Winnik76 GP · 1042 min+0.88WAR

C30Jay Beagle57 GP · 799 min+0.27WAR

C28Brooks Laich81 GP · 926 min+0.24WAR

C19Michael Latta43 GP · 348 min+0.15WAR

C17Mike Richards39 GP · 475 min+0.13WAR

R3Tom Wilson82 GP · 1059 min-0.03WAR

C—Zach Sill10 GP · 99 min+0.01WAR

R—Stanislav Galiev24 GP · 219 min+0.01WAR

C—Paul Carey4 GP · 40 min+0.00WAR

C—Chandler Stephenson9 GP · 71 min+0.00WAR

C—Sean Collins2 GP · 17 min+0.00WAR

R—Chris Brown1 GP · 8 min0.00WAR

Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D92Dmitry Orlov82 GP · 1314 min+1.70WAR

D89Matt Niskanen82 GP · 2022 min+1.54WAR

D81Karl Alzner82 GP · 1753 min+1.13WAR

D72John Carlson56 GP · 1327 min+0.82WAR

D67Nate Schmidt72 GP · 1301 min+0.72WAR

D46Brooks Orpik41 GP · 812 min+0.36WAR

D28Taylor Chorney55 GP · 726 min+0.14WAR

D17Mike Weber45 GP · 697 min+0.08WAR

D14Connor Carrick19 GP · 295 min+0.06WAR

D—Aaron Ness8 GP · 99 min+0.00WAR

D—Ryan Stanton1 GP · 9 min-0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 2

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

G97Braden Holtby66 GP · 3841 min+6.20WAR

G27Philipp Grubauer22 GP · 1111 min+0.49WAR

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