Roster · 2016-17 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

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 · 19

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

L96Marcus Johansson82 GP · 1394 min+2.01WAR

R91T.J. Oshie68 GP · 1214 min+1.74WAR

L89Alex Ovechkin82 GP · 1506 min+1.60WAR

R88Justin Williams80 GP · 1238 min+1.59WAR

C84Nicklas Backstrom82 GP · 1497 min+1.43WAR

L78Andre Burakovsky64 GP · 849 min+1.24WAR

C77Evgeny Kuznetsov82 GP · 1390 min+1.22WAR

C74Lars Eller81 GP · 1126 min+1.17WAR

L54Daniel Winnik72 GP · 930 min+0.73WAR

R50Tom Wilson82 GP · 1060 min+0.64WAR

R49Brett Connolly66 GP · 706 min+0.61WAR

C45Jay Beagle81 GP · 1104 min+0.51WAR

L21Zachary Sanford39 GP · 423 min+0.15WAR

L—Jakub Vrana21 GP · 233 min+0.08WAR

C—Paul Carey6 GP · 63 min+0.00WAR

R—Riley Barber3 GP · 26 min+0.00WAR

R—Garrett Mitchell1 GP · 9 min+0.00WAR

C—Liam O'Brien1 GP · 6 min-0.00WAR

C—Chandler Stephenson4 GP · 36 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 9

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D96Dmitry Orlov82 GP · 1602 min+1.78WAR

D90Nate Schmidt60 GP · 929 min+1.40WAR

D86Matt Niskanen78 GP · 1730 min+1.19WAR

D81John Carlson72 GP · 1635 min+1.07WAR

D80Brooks Orpik79 GP · 1405 min+1.02WAR

D62Kevin Shattenkirk80 GP · 1595 min+0.67WAR

D14Taylor Chorney18 GP · 257 min+0.00WAR

D6Karl Alzner82 GP · 1623 min-0.07WAR

D—Aaron Ness2 GP · 26 min-0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 2

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

G98Braden Holtby63 GP · 3680 min+8.50WAR

G51Philipp Grubauer24 GP · 1265 min+2.10WAR

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