Roster · 2019-20 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

Season2019-20

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 · 17

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

L98Alex Ovechkin68 GP · 1404 min+2.41WAR

L89Jakub Vrana69 GP · 1027 min+1.48WAR

R88T.J. Oshie69 GP · 1260 min+1.46WAR

R85Tom Wilson68 GP · 1243 min+1.41WAR

C78Lars Eller69 GP · 1174 min+1.24WAR

C77Nicklas Backstrom61 GP · 1159 min+1.21WAR

C69Chandler Stephenson65 GP · 931 min+1.07WAR

R50Garnet Hathaway66 GP · 711 min+0.72WAR

C49Evgeny Kuznetsov63 GP · 1124 min+0.68WAR

L42Ilya Kovalchuk46 GP · 780 min+0.60WAR

R36Richard Panik59 GP · 669 min+0.47WAR

L34Brendan Leipsic61 GP · 559 min+0.44WAR

L29Carl Hagelin58 GP · 831 min+0.37WAR

C18Nic Dowd56 GP · 607 min+0.24WAR

C9Travis Boyd24 GP · 282 min+0.13WAR

C—Michael Sgarbossa2 GP · 16 min+0.00WAR

L—Beck Malenstyn3 GP · 28 min+0.00WAR

Defense · 10

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D98Dmitry Orlov69 GP · 1530 min+2.04WAR

D89John Carlson69 GP · 1700 min+1.40WAR

D81Nick Jensen68 GP · 1212 min+1.17WAR

D49Jonas Siegenthaler64 GP · 1007 min+0.55WAR

D43Brenden Dillon69 GP · 1343 min+0.50WAR

D40Michal Kempny58 GP · 1081 min+0.47WAR

D39Radko Gudas63 GP · 1054 min+0.46WAR

D—Christian Djoos11 GP · 210 min+0.07WAR

D—Tyler Lewington6 GP · 61 min+0.00WAR

D—Martin Fehérváry6 GP · 96 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 2

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

G52Ilya Samsonov26 GP · 1391 min+1.31WAR

G43Braden Holtby48 GP · 2743 min+0.99WAR

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