Roster · 2020-21 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

Team

Washington Capitals

Season2020-21

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 · 21

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

R93T.J. Oshie53 GP · 957 min+1.62WAR

R89Anthony Mantha56 GP · 1017 min+1.45WAR

L85Alex Ovechkin45 GP · 878 min+1.33WAR

C85Nicklas Backstrom55 GP · 1023 min+1.32WAR

L80Conor Sheary53 GP · 727 min+1.18WAR

L77Jakub Vrana50 GP · 750 min+1.10WAR

R71Tom Wilson47 GP · 777 min+0.98WAR

C69Lars Eller44 GP · 720 min+0.94WAR

C60Evgeny Kuznetsov41 GP · 680 min+0.80WAR

R50Daniel Sprong42 GP · 490 min+0.66WAR

R48Garnet Hathaway56 GP · 691 min+0.63WAR

C43Nic Dowd56 GP · 805 min+0.57WAR

R42Richard Panik48 GP · 594 min+0.56WAR

L40Michael Raffl44 GP · 583 min+0.55WAR

L36Carl Hagelin56 GP · 790 min+0.51WAR

L—Daniel Carr6 GP · 61 min+0.01WAR

C—Michael Sgarbossa5 GP · 49 min+0.01WAR

C—Philippe Maillet2 GP · 18 min+0.00WAR

C—Garrett Pilon1 GP · 11 min+0.00WAR

C—Brian Pinho2 GP · 16 min+0.00WAR

L—Connor McMichael1 GP · 10 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 8

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D92John Carlson52 GP · 1237 min+1.41WAR

D89Dmitry Orlov51 GP · 1011 min+1.31WAR

D72Justin Schultz46 GP · 875 min+0.95WAR

D71Nick Jensen53 GP · 917 min+0.95WAR

D69Zdeno Chara55 GP · 1008 min+0.92WAR

D56Brenden Dillon56 GP · 1061 min+0.75WAR

D15Trevor van Riemsdyk20 GP · 342 min+0.22WAR

D—Jonas Siegenthaler15 GP · 234 min+0.05WAR

Goaltenders · 3

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

G63Vitek Vanecek37 GP · 2116 min+1.02WAR

G37Ilya Samsonov19 GP · 1093 min+0.28WAR

G35Craig Anderson4 GP · 169 min+0.23WAR

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