Roster · 2014-15 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

Season2014-15

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.

L100Alex Ovechkin81 GP · 1646 min+3.36WAR

C90Nicklas Backstrom82 GP · 1684 min+1.79WAR

L89Marcus Johansson82 GP · 1351 min+1.75WAR

R78Joel Ward82 GP · 1383 min+1.27WAR

R76Troy Brouwer82 GP · 1437 min+1.24WAR

C74Eric Fehr75 GP · 1114 min+1.19WAR

L62Curtis Glencross71 GP · 1111 min+0.86WAR

C57Evgeny Kuznetsov80 GP · 1067 min+0.74WAR

L45Andre Burakovsky53 GP · 685 min+0.55WAR

C39Brooks Laich66 GP · 972 min+0.43WAR

R37Tom Wilson67 GP · 732 min+0.39WAR

L29Jason Chimera77 GP · 996 min+0.28WAR

C23Michael Latta53 GP · 444 min+0.17WAR

C20Jay Beagle62 GP · 794 min+0.15WAR

R—Chris Conner2 GP · 18 min+0.00WAR

R—Stanislav Galiev2 GP · 19 min+0.00WAR

R—Chris Brown5 GP · 32 min+0.00WAR

C—Liam O'Brien13 GP · 98 min0.00WAR

L—Aaron Volpatti2 GP · 19 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 10

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D93John Carlson82 GP · 1892 min+1.71WAR

D81Karl Alzner82 GP · 1594 min+1.13WAR

D75Mike Green72 GP · 1376 min+1.02WAR

D73Matt Niskanen82 GP · 1833 min+0.95WAR

D50Brooks Orpik78 GP · 1699 min+0.45WAR

D47Tim Gleason72 GP · 1176 min+0.41WAR

D42Nate Schmidt39 GP · 542 min+0.34WAR

D17Jack Hillen38 GP · 489 min+0.06WAR

D—Cameron Schilling4 GP · 46 min+0.00WAR

D—Steve Oleksy1 GP · 12 min-0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

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

G94Braden Holtby73 GP · 4228 min+6.03WAR

G29Philipp Grubauer1 GP · 65 min+0.12WAR

G5Justin Peters12 GP · 647 min-0.38WAR

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