Roster · 2016-17 · Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay Lightning, by the numbers

Team

Tampa Bay Lightning

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 · 24

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

R99Nikita Kucherov74 GP · 1439 min+3.08WAR

L89Ondrej Palat75 GP · 1434 min+1.63WAR

L86Jonathan Drouin73 GP · 1293 min+1.51WAR

C85Brayden Point68 GP · 1165 min+1.49WAR

C79Tyler Johnson66 GP · 1242 min+1.27WAR

L78Alex Killorn81 GP · 1458 min+1.24WAR

C63Vladislav Namestnikov74 GP · 1094 min+0.91WAR

C55Valtteri Filppula79 GP · 1375 min+0.76WAR

C54Brian Boyle75 GP · 978 min+0.74WAR

C37Steven Stamkos17 GP · 304 min+0.38WAR

C36Cedric Paquette58 GP · 668 min+0.36WAR

C23Gabriel Dumont39 GP · 377 min+0.16WAR

C22Yanni Gourde20 GP · 307 min+0.15WAR

L17Adam Erne26 GP · 307 min+0.11WAR

C16Greg McKegg46 GP · 456 min+0.10WAR

R13JT Brown64 GP · 664 min+0.08WAR

R10Ryan Callahan18 GP · 255 min+0.05WAR

C—Cory Conacher11 GP · 127 min+0.04WAR

L—Michael Bournival19 GP · 193 min+0.04WAR

R—Erik Condra13 GP · 125 min+0.02WAR

R—Joel Vermin18 GP · 197 min+0.02WAR

C—Matthew Peca10 GP · 115 min+0.01WAR

C—Tanner Richard3 GP · 38 min+0.00WAR

C—Byron Froese6 GP · 63 min-0.01WAR

Defense · 9

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D94Victor Hedman79 GP · 1936 min+1.63WAR

D85Anton Stralman73 GP · 1672 min+1.15WAR

D56Braydon Coburn80 GP · 1339 min+0.60WAR

D50Andrej Sustr80 GP · 1407 min+0.48WAR

D48Nikita Nesterov48 GP · 782 min+0.44WAR

D47Jake Dotchin35 GP · 645 min+0.40WAR

D34Jason Garrison70 GP · 1300 min+0.23WAR

D19Slater Koekkoek29 GP · 377 min+0.06WAR

D17Luke Witkowski34 GP · 336 min+0.03WAR

Goaltenders · 4

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

G91Peter Budaj60 GP · 3308 min+5.49WAR

G66Andrei Vasilevskiy50 GP · 2831 min+2.90WAR

G50Ben Bishop39 GP · 2223 min+2.08WAR

G—Kristers Gudlevskis1 GP · 12 min-0.07WAR

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