Roster · 2020-21 · Montréal Canadiens

Montréal Canadiens, by the numbers

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Montréal Canadiens

Season2020-21

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 · 18

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

C89Nick Suzuki56 GP · 1018 min+1.44WAR

C86Tyler Toffoli52 GP · 911 min+1.35WAR

L86Tomas Tatar50 GP · 749 min+1.33WAR

C77Phillip Danault53 GP · 894 min+1.11WAR

C77Jesperi Kotkaniemi56 GP · 829 min+1.11WAR

R62Brendan Gallagher35 GP · 525 min+0.84WAR

C56Eric Staal53 GP · 780 min+0.74WAR

R55Josh Anderson52 GP · 854 min+0.73WAR

R51Corey Perry49 GP · 673 min+0.68WAR

L50Jonathan Drouin44 GP · 708 min+0.66WAR

R48Joel Armia41 GP · 603 min+0.63WAR

L45Artturi Lehkonen47 GP · 631 min+0.59WAR

C39Jake Evans47 GP · 557 min+0.54WAR

L35Paul Byron46 GP · 594 min+0.50WAR

R—Cole Caufield10 GP · 140 min+0.07WAR

R—Michael Frolik8 GP · 92 min+0.00WAR

R—Alex Belzile2 GP · 21 min+0.00WAR

R—Jesse Ylonen1 GP · 11 min+0.00WAR

Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D93Jeff Petry55 GP · 1251 min+1.54WAR

D84Joel Edmundson55 GP · 1102 min+1.19WAR

D80Alexander Romanov54 GP · 933 min+1.12WAR

D79Shea Weber48 GP · 1091 min+1.11WAR

D60Ben Chiarot41 GP · 893 min+0.80WAR

D55Brett Kulak46 GP · 742 min+0.74WAR

D44Jon Merrill49 GP · 895 min+0.58WAR

D30Victor Mete28 GP · 442 min+0.38WAR

D28Erik Gustafsson29 GP · 485 min+0.36WAR

D—Xavier Ouellet6 GP · 87 min+0.01WAR

D—Otto Leskinen1 GP · 16 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

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

G71Carey Price25 GP · 1479 min+1.37WAR

G60Jake Allen29 GP · 1703 min+0.94WAR

G5Cayden Primeau4 GP · 202 min-0.59WAR

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