Washington Capitals 2016-17 Roster & Stats

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Skaters

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM	+/-
Nicklas Backstrom	C	82	23	63	86	38	17
Alex Ovechkin	LW	82	33	36	69	50	6
Evgeny Kuznetsov	C	82	19	40	59	46	18
Marcus Johansson	LW	82	24	34	58	10	25
T.J. Oshie	RW	68	33	23	56	36	28
Justin Williams	RW	80	24	24	48	50	14
Matt Niskanen	D	78	5	34	39	32	20
John Carlson	D	72	9	28	37	10	7
Andre Burakovsky	LW	64	12	23	35	14	13
Dmitry Orlov	D	82	6	27	33	51	30
Jay Beagle	C	81	13	17	30	22	20
Daniel Winnik	LW	72	12	13	25	49	15
Lars Eller	C	81	12	13	25	36	15
Brett Connolly	RW	66	15	8	23	40	20
Tom Wilson	RW	82	7	12	19	133	9
Nate Schmidt	D	60	3	14	17	16	22
Brooks Orpik	D	79	0	14	14	48	32
Kevin Shattenkirk	D	19	2	12	14	10	4
Karl Alzner	D	82	3	10	13	28	23
Jakub Vrana	LW	21	3	3	6	2	2
Taylor Chorney	D	18	1	4	5	11	8
Zachary Sanford	LW	26	2	1	3	6	0
Aaron Ness	D	2	0	0	0	0	-1
Chandler Stephenson	C	4	0	0	0	0	0
Garrett Mitchell	RW	1	0	0	0	0	0
Liam O'Brien	C	1	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Carey	C	6	0	0	0	0	-2
Riley Barber	RW	3	0	0	0	0	0

Goalies

Goalie	GP	W	L	OTL	GAA	SV%	SO
Braden Holtby	63	42	13	6	2.07	.925	9
Philipp Grubauer	24	13	6	2	2.04	.926	3

Advanced Stats

Player	GP	CF%	FF%	PDO	P/60	FO%	TOI
John Carlson	72	49.5%	48.9%	101.8	0.94	—	22:42
Matt Niskanen	78	54.3%	53.5%	101.6	1.20	—	22:10
Kevin Shattenkirk	80	53.0%	54.2%	99.4	1.11	—	19:56
Karl Alzner	82	47.2%	47.5%	103.9	0.55	—	19:47
Dmitry Orlov	82	54.3%	53.6%	102.4	1.01	—	19:32
Alex Ovechkin	82	50.2%	50.4%	102.3	2.17	0.0%	18:21
Nicklas Backstrom	82	51.2%	51.5%	102.6	2.39	51.4%	18:15
T.J. Oshie	68	51.6%	52.5%	104.0	2.35	48.3%	17:51
Brooks Orpik	79	52.5%	52.3%	103.0	0.66	—	17:47
Marcus Johansson	82	53.1%	53.0%	103.6	1.75	46.4%	16:59
Evgeny Kuznetsov	82	52.0%	51.4%	103.2	2.10	44.0%	16:57
Justin Williams	80	53.7%	54.0%	101.7	2.24	54.7%	15:28
Nate Schmidt	60	53.4%	52.2%	104.2	0.98	—	15:28
Taylor Chorney	18	45.3%	46.4%	107.4	1.24	—	14:15
Lars Eller	81	54.6%	53.6%	102.0	1.26	47.1%	13:54
Jay Beagle	81	47.1%	46.9%	104.2	1.66	56.4%	13:37
Andre Burakovsky	64	55.3%	52.1%	102.5	2.28	28.6%	13:15
Tom Wilson	82	50.2%	49.3%	102.1	1.24	30.0%	12:55
Daniel Winnik	72	50.2%	50.2%	102.9	1.65	42.9%	12:54
Aaron Ness	2	37.5%	31.0%	92.3	0.00	—	12:50
Jakub Vrana	21	54.3%	53.5%	102.0	0.62	0.0%	11:06
Zachary Sanford	39	45.7%	45.8%	102.9	1.23	43.6%	10:50
Brett Connolly	66	53.9%	53.3%	104.6	1.98	28.6%	10:41
Paul Carey	6	50.0%	52.0%	91.3	0.00	—	10:28
Chandler Stephenson	4	60.3%	56.8%	100.0	0.00	48.0%	8:52
Garrett Mitchell	1	54.5%	60.0%	100.0	0.00	0.0%	8:48
Riley Barber	3	38.6%	40.6%	100.0	0.00	—	8:34
Liam O'Brien	1	56.2%	58.3%	100.0	0.00	—	6:08

Corsi (CF%), Fenwick (FF%), PDO, and rates are full-season, league-wide numbers — for mid-season trades they include time with other teams. Sorted by ice time.

Playoff Skaters

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM	+/-
Nicklas Backstrom	C	13	6	7	13	2	0
T.J. Oshie	RW	13	4	8	12	4	2
Evgeny Kuznetsov	C	13	5	5	10	8	-1
Justin Williams	RW	13	3	6	9	6	0
Alex Ovechkin	LW	13	5	3	8	8	-4
Marcus Johansson	LW	13	2	6	8	2	-1
Andre Burakovsky	LW	13	3	3	6	2	5
Kevin Shattenkirk	D	13	1	5	6	6	-4
Lars Eller	C	13	0	5	5	10	-2
John Carlson	D	13	2	2	4	4	1
Matt Niskanen	D	13	1	3	4	19	0
Nate Schmidt	D	11	1	3	4	4	6
Dmitry Orlov	D	13	0	3	3	2	-1
Tom Wilson	RW	13	3	0	3	34	-2
Brooks Orpik	D	13	0	2	2	11	-7
Brett Connolly	RW	7	0	0	0	0	-2
Daniel Winnik	LW	13	0	0	0	0	-4
Jay Beagle	C	13	0	0	0	4	-5
Karl Alzner	D	7	0	0	0	2	-1
Paul Carey	C	1	0	0	0	0	0

Playoff Goalies

Goalie	GP	W	L	OTL	GAA	SV%	SO
Braden Holtby	13	7	6	—	2.46	.909	0
Philipp Grubauer	1	0	0	—	6.46	.778	0

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