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Roster · 2017-18

Every Sabre, by the numbers

Season2017-18

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 · 22

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

C88Sam Reinhart82 GP · 1402 min+2.08WARC85Ryan O'Reilly81 GP · 1686 min+1.84WARR75Jason Pominville82 GP · 1222 min+1.40WARL75Benoit Pouliot74 GP · 1013 min+1.37WARC74Jack Eichel67 GP · 1350 min+1.35WARC35Zemgus Girgensons71 GP · 973 min+0.24WARC33Evan Rodrigues48 GP · 669 min+0.18WARR29Nick Baptiste33 GP · 329 min+0.09WARC27Jordan Nolan69 GP · 676 min+0.04WARC23Jacob Josefson39 GP · 444 min-0.03WARC20Scott Wilson69 GP · 842 min-0.11WARL19Evander Kane78 GP · 1527 min-0.12WARR17Kyle Okposo76 GP · 1294 min-0.18WARL7Johan Larsson80 GP · 1129 min-0.41WARR—Justin Bailey12 GP · 135 min+0.30WARL—Alex Nylander3 GP · 39 min+0.11WARC—Seth Griffith21 GP · 222 min+0.11WARC—Casey Mittelstadt6 GP · 84 min+0.08WARR—Hudson Fasching5 GP · 49 min-0.10WARC—Kyle Criscuolo9 GP · 72 min-0.17WARC—Danny O'Regan21 GP · 209 min-0.27WARL—Matt Moulson14 GP · 144 min-0.33WAR
Defense · 13

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D78Rasmus Ristolainen73 GP · 1935 min+0.83WARD73Marco Scandella82 GP · 1912 min+0.72WARD52Casey Nelson37 GP · 695 min+0.32WARD43Jake McCabe53 GP · 1034 min+0.18WARD36Josh Gorges34 GP · 508 min+0.05WARD31Victor Antipin47 GP · 718 min-0.05WARD24Justin Falk46 GP · 740 min-0.14WARD16Nathan Beaulieu59 GP · 941 min-0.21WARD12Matt Tennyson15 GP · 270 min-0.26WARD11Zach Bogosian18 GP · 345 min-0.28WARD8Brendan Guhle18 GP · 326 min-0.35WARD—Taylor Fedun7 GP · 103 min-0.05WARD—Zach Redmond3 GP · 43 min-0.10WAR
Goaltenders · 4

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

G68Robin Lehner53 GP · 2852 min+2.51WARG48Linus Ullmark5 GP · 240 min+0.96WARG5Chad Johnson36 GP · 1774 min-0.96WARG—Adam Wilcox1 GP · 39 min+0.17WAR

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