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Roster · 2018-19

Every Sabre, by the numbers

Season2018-19

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.

L98Jeff Skinner82 GP · 1518 min+3.75WARC81Jack Eichel77 GP · 1574 min+1.56WARR76Jason Pominville73 GP · 910 min+1.31WARC73Sam Reinhart82 GP · 1555 min+1.17WARC57Casey Mittelstadt77 GP · 1036 min+0.72WARL54Conor Sheary78 GP · 1140 min+0.62WARR49Kyle Okposo78 GP · 1075 min+0.46WARC48Evan Rodrigues74 GP · 1171 min+0.44WARL40Johan Larsson73 GP · 1043 min+0.28WARC30Zemgus Girgensons72 GP · 980 min+0.08WARC23Patrik Berglund23 GP · 300 min-0.09WARC16Vladimir Sobotka69 GP · 979 min-0.21WARC8Tage Thompson65 GP · 788 min-0.43WARL—Alex Nylander12 GP · 146 min+0.16WARL—C.J. Smith11 GP · 117 min+0.14WARL—Victor Olofsson6 GP · 108 min+0.03WARC—Danny O'Regan1 GP · 12 min-0.08WARL—Remi Elie16 GP · 166 min-0.17WARC—Scott Wilson15 GP · 172 min-0.30WAR
Defense · 13

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D75Rasmus Dahlin82 GP · 1735 min+0.66WARD65Jake McCabe59 GP · 1118 min+0.41WARD57Lawrence Pilut33 GP · 575 min+0.26WARD56Nathan Beaulieu48 GP · 744 min+0.26WARD56Marco Scandella63 GP · 1110 min+0.26WARD45Casey Nelson38 GP · 586 min+0.08WARD8Zach Bogosian65 GP · 1406 min-0.41WARD4Rasmus Ristolainen78 GP · 1922 min-0.65WARD2Brandon Montour82 GP · 1841 min-0.78WARD—Will Borgen4 GP · 66 min-0.01WARD—Matt Tennyson4 GP · 43 min-0.02WARD—Matt Hunwick14 GP · 220 min-0.03WARD—Brendan Guhle8 GP · 120 min-0.20WAR
Goaltenders · 2

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

G63Carter Hutton50 GP · 2840 min+2.67WARG47Linus Ullmark37 GP · 2102 min+1.46WAR

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