Roster · 2023-24 · Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, by the numbers

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Washington Capitals

Season2023-24

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.

C89Dylan Strome82 GP · 1472 min+1.72WAR

R79Anthony Mantha74 GP · 1053 min+1.26WAR

L73Alex Ovechkin79 GP · 1519 min+1.06WAR

R72Tom Wilson74 GP · 1340 min+1.05WAR

L60Connor McMichael80 GP · 1279 min+0.77WAR

L51Aliaksei Protas78 GP · 1072 min+0.58WAR

C45Nic Dowd64 GP · 973 min+0.51WAR

L43Sonny Milano49 GP · 614 min+0.49WAR

R41T.J. Oshie52 GP · 879 min+0.45WAR

C34Hendrix Lapierre51 GP · 583 min+0.34WAR

R31Nicolas Aube-Kubel60 GP · 733 min+0.30WAR

L29Max Pacioretty47 GP · 678 min+0.26WAR

L25Beck Malenstyn81 GP · 1154 min+0.22WAR

C23Evgeny Kuznetsov63 GP · 1106 min+0.19WAR

C14Michael Sgarbossa25 GP · 274 min+0.11WAR

R13Matthew Phillips31 GP · 316 min+0.10WAR

L8Ivan Miroshnichenko21 GP · 255 min+0.06WAR

C—Nicklas Backstrom8 GP · 117 min+0.00WAR

C—Joe Snively3 GP · 25 min+0.00WAR

R—Pierrick Dube3 GP · 28 min0.00WAR

Defense · 12

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D76Trevor van Riemsdyk70 GP · 1307 min+0.95WAR

D71John Carlson82 GP · 2124 min+0.83WAR

D68Nick Jensen78 GP · 1531 min+0.77WAR

D66Martin Fehérváry66 GP · 1296 min+0.73WAR

D56Joel Edmundson53 GP · 883 min+0.53WAR

D35Alexander Alexeyev39 GP · 534 min+0.22WAR

D33Rasmus Sandin68 GP · 1437 min+0.20WAR

D9Ethan Bear24 GP · 358 min+0.02WAR

D—Vincent Iorio6 GP · 59 min+0.01WAR

D—Lucas Johansen6 GP · 86 min+0.00WAR

D—Hardy Haman Aktell6 GP · 64 min+0.00WAR

D—Dylan McIlrath3 GP · 31 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

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

G58Charlie Lindgren50 GP · 2852 min+0.68WAR

G39Hunter Shepard4 GP · 245 min+0.31WAR

G19Darcy Kuemper33 GP · 1867 min-0.26WAR

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