Roster · 2016-17 · Colorado Avalanche

Colorado Avalanche, by the numbers

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Colorado Avalanche

Season2016-17

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 · 22

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

C76Nathan MacKinnon82 GP · 1635 min+1.22WAR

L73Gabriel Landeskog72 GP · 1352 min+1.16WAR

C70Matt Duchene77 GP · 1409 min+1.10WAR

L65Blake Comeau77 GP · 1153 min+0.95WAR

L57Matt Nieto59 GP · 881 min+0.79WAR

R55Jarome Iginla80 GP · 1210 min+0.76WAR

R51Mikko Rantanen75 GP · 1353 min+0.65WAR

R41Sven Andrighetto46 GP · 643 min+0.44WAR

C34John Mitchell65 GP · 816 min+0.33WAR

C33Mikhail Grigorenko75 GP · 1057 min+0.31WAR

R30Rene Bourque65 GP · 906 min+0.26WAR

C28Joe Colborne62 GP · 663 min+0.22WAR

L18J.T. Compher21 GP · 314 min+0.13WAR

R17Ben Smith40 GP · 459 min+0.11WAR

L4Cody McLeod59 GP · 423 min-0.04WAR

C3Carl Soderberg80 GP · 1076 min-0.08WAR

L2Andreas Martinsen64 GP · 637 min-0.11WAR

C—Tyson Jost6 GP · 94 min+0.01WAR

R—Rocco Grimaldi4 GP · 44 min+0.00WAR

L—Gabriel Bourque6 GP · 67 min+0.00WAR

L—A.J. Greer5 GP · 68 min+0.00WAR

C—Samuel Henley1 GP · 5 min+0.00WAR

Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D73Tyson Barrie74 GP · 1725 min+0.87WAR

D69Erik Johnson46 GP · 1016 min+0.81WAR

D57Mark Barberio60 GP · 1096 min+0.62WAR

D49Fedor Tyutin69 GP · 1307 min+0.45WAR

D31Patrick Wiercioch57 GP · 950 min+0.19WAR

D28Francois Beauchemin81 GP · 1743 min+0.16WAR

D10Eric Gelinas27 GP · 313 min-0.03WAR

D9Nikita Zadorov56 GP · 1066 min-0.04WAR

D8Cody Goloubef33 GP · 561 min-0.04WAR

D—Anton Lindholm12 GP · 177 min+0.02WAR

D—Duncan Siemens3 GP · 37 min-0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 4

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

G25Calvin Pickard50 GP · 2800 min+0.22WAR

G15Jeremy Smith10 GP · 543 min-0.25WAR

G8Spencer Martin3 GP · 179 min-0.49WAR

G6Semyon Varlamov24 GP · 1348 min-0.50WAR

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