Roster · 2017-18 · Vegas Golden Knights

Vegas Golden Knights, by the numbers

Team

Vegas Golden Knights

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 · 20

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

C98William Karlsson82 GP · 1534 min+2.39WAR

C94Jonathan Marchessault77 GP · 1348 min+1.96WAR

R81Reilly Smith67 GP · 1201 min+1.35WAR

L80Tomas Tatar82 GP · 1334 min+1.34WAR

L78James Neal71 GP · 1219 min+1.25WAR

L73Erik Haula76 GP · 1320 min+1.13WAR

L52David Perron70 GP · 1247 min+0.69WAR

R47Alex Tuch78 GP · 1190 min+0.62WAR

L43Pierre-Edouard Bellemare72 GP · 888 min+0.55WAR

L36Brendan Leipsic58 GP · 762 min+0.39WAR

L32Oscar Lindberg63 GP · 742 min+0.33WAR

C32Ryan Carpenter52 GP · 655 min+0.32WAR

L30Tomas Nosek67 GP · 743 min+0.31WAR

C27Cody Eakin80 GP · 1163 min+0.26WAR

R15Ryan Reaves79 GP · 600 min+0.12WAR

L14William Carrier37 GP · 327 min+0.11WAR

R—Tomas Hyka10 GP · 121 min+0.03WAR

C—Brandon Pirri2 GP · 35 min+0.01WAR

C—Vadim Shipachyov3 GP · 32 min+0.00WAR

C—Stefan Matteau8 GP · 66 min+0.00WAR

Defense · 10

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D92Colin Miller82 GP · 1586 min+1.56WAR

D91Nate Schmidt76 GP · 1690 min+1.49WAR

D78Brayden McNabb76 GP · 1532 min+0.99WAR

D73Shea Theodore61 GP · 1242 min+0.78WAR

D50Brad Hunt45 GP · 749 min+0.46WAR

D43Deryk Engelland79 GP · 1602 min+0.40WAR

D20Jon Merrill34 GP · 547 min+0.10WAR

D13Luca Sbisa30 GP · 586 min+0.05WAR

D—Zach Whitecloud1 GP · 17 min+0.00WAR

D—Jason Garrison8 GP · 153 min-0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 5

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

G90Marc-Andre Fleury46 GP · 2673 min+5.11WAR

G47Malcolm Subban22 GP · 1230 min+0.87WAR

G44Oscar Dansk4 GP · 169 min+0.63WAR

G0Maxime Lagace16 GP · 874 min-1.87WAR

G—Dylan Ferguson1 GP · 9 min+0.03WAR

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