Roster · 2017-18 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

Season2017-18

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.

L90Alex Ovechkin82 GP · 1652 min+1.71WAR

R88T.J. Oshie74 GP · 1363 min+1.60WAR

C87Nicklas Backstrom81 GP · 1593 min+1.55WAR

C66Evgeny Kuznetsov79 GP · 1486 min+1.00WAR

C62Lars Eller81 GP · 1239 min+0.90WAR

L58Andre Burakovsky56 GP · 775 min+0.82WAR

L57Jakub Vrana73 GP · 912 min+0.80WAR

R48Tom Wilson78 GP · 1247 min+0.62WAR

R37Brett Connolly70 GP · 840 min+0.41WAR

R28Devante Smith-Pelly75 GP · 926 min+0.27WAR

C26Chandler Stephenson67 GP · 795 min+0.25WAR

R16Alex Chiasson61 GP · 718 min+0.13WAR

C2Jay Beagle79 GP · 983 min-0.03WAR

L—Nathan Walker9 GP · 85 min+0.01WAR

L—Shane Gersich3 GP · 27 min+0.00WAR

C—Liam O'Brien3 GP · 21 min-0.00WAR

C—Tyler Graovac5 GP · 34 min-0.00WAR

C—Travis Boyd8 GP · 71 min-0.00WAR

R—Anthony Peluso2 GP · 9 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 10

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D94Dmitry Orlov82 GP · 1897 min+1.63WAR

D76John Carlson82 GP · 2032 min+0.92WAR

D68Christian Djoos63 GP · 884 min+0.71WAR

D48Michal Kempny53 GP · 843 min+0.44WAR

D41Matt Niskanen68 GP · 1537 min+0.38WAR

D38Jakub Jerabek36 GP · 588 min+0.35WAR

D22Madison Bowey51 GP · 699 min+0.12WAR

D8Taylor Chorney25 GP · 329 min-0.00WAR

D0Brooks Orpik81 GP · 1569 min-0.41WAR

D—Aaron Ness8 GP · 102 min-0.01WAR

Goaltenders · 2

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

G87Braden Holtby54 GP · 3068 min+4.55WAR

G83Philipp Grubauer35 GP · 1865 min+4.05WAR

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