Roster · 2016-17 · Edmonton Oilers

Edmonton Oilers, by the numbers

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Edmonton Oilers

Season2016-17

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.

C100Connor McDavid82 GP · 1733 min+3.12WAR

C97Leon Draisaitl82 GP · 1549 min+2.09WAR

L89Patrick Maroon81 GP · 1356 min+1.61WAR

R88Jordan Eberle82 GP · 1375 min+1.58WAR

C62Ryan Nugent-Hopkins82 GP · 1451 min+0.90WAR

L57Milan Lucic82 GP · 1407 min+0.81WAR

C50Mark Letestu78 GP · 1111 min+0.62WAR

C36David Desharnais49 GP · 611 min+0.36WAR

L34Drake Caggiula60 GP · 794 min+0.32WAR L32Benoit Pouliot67 GP · 942 min+0.30WAR

C22Tyler Pitlick31 GP · 308 min+0.15WAR

L18Anton Slepyshev41 GP · 456 min+0.12WAR

R9Jesse Puljujarvi28 GP · 315 min+0.03WAR

C5Matt Hendricks42 GP · 452 min-0.01WAR

R1Zack Kassian79 GP · 972 min-0.13WAR

R—Iiro Pakarinen14 GP · 125 min+0.02WAR

C—Anton Lander22 GP · 215 min+0.01WAR

L—Taylor Beck5 GP · 44 min+0.00WAR

L—Jujhar Khaira10 GP · 93 min-0.01WAR

Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D86Andrej Sekera80 GP · 1719 min+1.22WAR

D79Matt Benning62 GP · 1030 min+0.96WAR

D72Oscar Klefbom82 GP · 1834 min+0.86WAR

D55Adam Larsson79 GP · 1592 min+0.57WAR

D42Darnell Nurse44 GP · 749 min+0.34WAR

D39Kris Russell68 GP · 1443 min+0.28WAR

D18Brandon Davidson38 GP · 597 min+0.05WAR

D14Eric Gryba40 GP · 646 min+0.01WAR

D—Jordan Oesterle2 GP · 35 min+0.00WAR

D—Dillon Simpson3 GP · 33 min-0.00WAR

D—Mark Fayne4 GP · 32 min-0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

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

G100Cam Talbot73 GP · 4289 min+9.56WAR

G30Laurent Brossoit8 GP · 333 min+0.37WAR

G19Jonas Gustavsson7 GP · 329 min-0.10WAR

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