Roster · 2018-19 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

Season2018-19

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 · 16

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

L86Alex Ovechkin81 GP · 1695 min+1.43WAR

R85T.J. Oshie69 GP · 1284 min+1.39WAR

L85Jakub Vrana82 GP · 1151 min+1.36WAR

R81Brett Connolly81 GP · 1080 min+1.22WAR

C79Lars Eller81 GP · 1339 min+1.18WAR

C75Nicklas Backstrom80 GP · 1596 min+1.10WAR

R54Tom Wilson63 GP · 1143 min+0.64WAR

L48Andre Burakovsky76 GP · 846 min+0.56WAR

L46Carl Hagelin58 GP · 854 min+0.54WAR

C31Evgeny Kuznetsov76 GP · 1428 min+0.30WAR

C28Chandler Stephenson64 GP · 776 min+0.26WAR

C23Travis Boyd53 GP · 521 min+0.20WAR

C18Nic Dowd64 GP · 659 min+0.14WAR

R6Devante Smith-Pelly54 GP · 586 min+0.03WAR

R5Dmitrij Jaskin37 GP · 373 min+0.02WAR

L—Nathan Walker3 GP · 24 min+0.00WAR

Defense · 10

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D76Nick Jensen80 GP · 1588 min+0.88WAR

D71John Carlson80 GP · 2005 min+0.78WAR

D67Dmitry Orlov82 GP · 1774 min+0.66WAR

D62Michal Kempny71 GP · 1362 min+0.53WAR

D49Matt Niskanen80 GP · 1755 min+0.31WAR

D47Christian Djoos45 GP · 611 min+0.28WAR

D41Brooks Orpik53 GP · 830 min+0.21WAR

D25Jonas Siegenthaler26 GP · 368 min+0.09WAR

D5Madison Bowey50 GP · 763 min-0.06WAR

D—Tyler Lewington2 GP · 28 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 2

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

G92Braden Holtby59 GP · 3407 min+5.64WAR

G56Pheonix Copley27 GP · 1529 min+2.06WAR

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