Roster · 2021-22 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

Team

Washington Capitals

Season2021-22

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 · 24

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

L94Alex Ovechkin77 GP · 1584 min+2.22WAR

R81Tom Wilson78 GP · 1449 min+1.40WAR

L69Conor Sheary71 GP · 1085 min+0.99WAR L66Marcus Johansson69 GP · 1113 min+0.95WAR

R65Daniel Sprong63 GP · 818 min+0.93WAR

R64Garnet Hathaway76 GP · 1018 min+0.87WAR

R60T.J. Oshie44 GP · 768 min+0.79WAR

C57Evgeny Kuznetsov79 GP · 1602 min+0.74WAR

C49Nic Dowd64 GP · 913 min+0.63WAR

L49Connor McMichael68 GP · 712 min+0.62WAR

C43Nicklas Backstrom47 GP · 822 min+0.53WAR

C42Lars Eller72 GP · 1161 min+0.52WAR

L40Johan Larsson43 GP · 684 min+0.48WAR

R36Anthony Mantha37 GP · 561 min+0.41WAR

L27Carl Hagelin53 GP · 755 min+0.26WAR

L25Aliaksei Protas33 GP · 391 min+0.23WAR

R12Brett Leason36 GP · 322 min+0.09WAR

L9Axel Jonsson-Fjallby23 GP · 257 min+0.07WAR

C—Joe Snively12 GP · 139 min+0.03WAR

C—Michael Sgarbossa10 GP · 99 min+0.02WAR

L—Beck Malenstyn12 GP · 109 min+0.01WAR

C—Hendrix Lapierre6 GP · 58 min+0.00WAR

C—Garrett Pilon2 GP · 19 min+0.00WAR

R—Mike Vecchione1 GP · 5 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D94John Carlson78 GP · 1857 min+1.81WAR

D89Dmitry Orlov76 GP · 1593 min+1.53WAR

D73Justin Schultz74 GP · 1252 min+0.96WAR

D68Trevor van Riemsdyk72 GP · 1258 min+0.88WAR

D66Nick Jensen76 GP · 1470 min+0.82WAR

D60Martin Fehérváry79 GP · 1553 min+0.73WAR

D—Dennis Cholowski11 GP · 174 min+0.03WAR

D—Matt Irwin17 GP · 215 min+0.02WAR

D—Lucas Johansen1 GP · 12 min+0.00WAR

D—Alexander Alexeyev1 GP · 11 min-0.00WAR

D—Michal Kempny15 GP · 238 min-0.01WAR

Goaltenders · 4

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

G73Vitek Vanecek42 GP · 2317 min+0.89WAR

G67Zach Fucale4 GP · 172 min+0.57WAR

G54Pheonix Copley2 GP · 97 min+0.22WAR

G4Ilya Samsonov44 GP · 2361 min-1.59WAR

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