Roster · 2025-26 · Vegas Golden Knights

Vegas Golden Knights, by the numbers

Team

Vegas Golden Knights

Season2025-26

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 · 24

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

R98Mitch Marner81 GP · 1617 min+2.13WAR

R98Pavel Dorofeyev83 GP · 1455 min+2.12WAR

C94Jack Eichel75 GP · 1592 min+1.76WAR

R91Mark Stone61 GP · 1173 min+1.52WAR

L89Ivan Barbashev82 GP · 1332 min+1.44WAR

C86Tomas Hertl83 GP · 1415 min+1.39WAR

L77Victor Olofsson79 GP · 1074 min+1.03WAR

C53Nic Dowd75 GP · 1091 min+0.58WAR

C52Brett Howden59 GP · 877 min+0.53WAR

R46Reilly Smith69 GP · 944 min+0.45WAR

R42Cole Smith63 GP · 837 min+0.39WAR

R32Keegan Kolesar83 GP · 962 min+0.28WAR

C31Colton Sissons66 GP · 825 min+0.28WAR

L31Brandon Saad49 GP · 656 min+0.28WAR

R31Braeden Bowman54 GP · 763 min+0.28WAR

L27Cole Reinhardt59 GP · 628 min+0.24WAR

C13Cole Schwindt30 GP · 300 min+0.09WAR

L12Tanner Pearson57 GP · 618 min+0.08WAR

R9Alexander Holtz29 GP · 333 min+0.04WAR

C—William Karlsson15 GP · 231 min+0.07WAR

C—Tanner Laczynski11 GP · 115 min+0.01WAR

C—Kai Uchacz3 GP · 37 min+0.00WAR

C—Raphael Lavoie1 GP · 9 min-0.00WAR

R—Jonas Rondbjerg4 GP · 48 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 12

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D94Noah Hanifin72 GP · 1626 min+1.78WAR

D90Shea Theodore71 GP · 1619 min+1.53WAR

D76Kaedan Korczak78 GP · 1246 min+0.87WAR

D69Brayden McNabb64 GP · 1316 min+0.73WAR

D67Rasmus Andersson81 GP · 1880 min+0.67WAR

D60Nicolas Hague63 GP · 1234 min+0.55WAR

D55Jeremy Lauzon68 GP · 1168 min+0.47WAR

D53Ben Hutton55 GP · 802 min+0.44WAR

D33Zach Whitecloud79 GP · 1599 min+0.19WAR

D—Alex Pietrangelo1 GP · 21 min+0.00WAR

D—Dylan Coghlan3 GP · 45 min+0.00WAR

D—Jaycob Megna4 GP · 43 min-0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 4

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

G49Akira Schmid34 GP · 1966 min+0.74WAR

G27Carter Hart18 GP · 1020 min+0.10WAR

G15Adin Hill27 GP · 1498 min-0.23WAR

G8Carl Lindbom8 GP · 481 min-0.40WAR

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