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NHL Faceoffs Won Leaders: Washington Capitals
2017-18All situationsThrough 82 team games
This board ranks every NHL skater by faceoffs won, regular season only. Pick any season back to 2017-18 above the table.
Faceoffs won counts every draw a player wins. Top-six centres who take 20 draws a night lead the total; the faceoff percentage board shows who wins them most often. FOW is a category in many deeper leagues and favours volume: a centre who takes every key draw beats a better but less used one.
Leader for the Washington Capitals in 2017-18: Nicklas Backstrom (WSH), 702 FOW.
Faceoffs Won leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | FOW | GP | Per game | FOL | FO% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicklas BackstromFWSH | WSH | 702 | 81 | 8.67 | 669 | 51.2% | — |
| 2 | Jay BeagleFWSH | WSH | 584 | 79 | 7.39 | 414 | 58.5% | — |
| 3 | Lars EllerFWSH | WSH | 471 | 81 | 5.81 | 485 | 49.3% | 0.2% |
| 4 | Evgeny KuznetsovFWSH | WSH | 450 | 79 | 5.70 | 568 | 44.2% | — |
| 5 | T.J. OshieFWSH | WSH | 101 | 74 | 1.36 | 110 | 47.9% | — |
| 6 | Chandler StephensonFWSH | WSH | 40 | 67 | 0.60 | 33 | 54.8% | 17%▲13 |
| 7 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 25 | 78 | 0.32 | 29 | 46.3% | 94%▲6.3 |
| 8 | Andre BurakovskyFWSH | WSH | 18 | 56 | 0.32 | 15 | 54.5% | 5.6%▲5.4 |
| 9 | Travis BoydFWSH | WSH | 18 | 8 | 2.25 | 18 | 50.0% | — |
| 10 | Devante Smith-PellyFWSH | WSH | 16 | 75 | 0.21 | 17 | 48.5% | — |
| 11 | Brett ConnollyFWSH | WSH | 14 | 70 | 0.20 | 17 | 45.2% | — |
| 12 | Jakub VranaFWSH | WSH | 13 | 73 | 0.18 | 12 | 52.0% | — |
| 13 | Alex ChiassonFWSH | WSH | 11 | 61 | 0.18 | 30 | 26.8% | — |
| 14 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 5 | 37.5% | 96%▲1.2 |
| 15 | Tyler GraovacFWSH | WSH | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | 2 | 33.3% | — |
| 16 | John CarlsonDWSH | WSH | 0 | 82 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.0% | 99%▲2.4 |
| 17 | Dmitry OrlovDWSH | WSH | 0 | 82 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 35%▲21 |
| 18 | Brooks OrpikDWSH | WSH | 0 | 81 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 19 | Matt NiskanenDWSH | WSH | 0 | 68 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 20 | Christian DjoosDWSH | WSH | 0 | 63 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 21 | Michal KempnyDCHI/WSH | CHI/WSH | 0 | 53 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 22 | Madison BoweyDWSH | WSH | 0 | 51 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 23 | Jakub JerabekDMTL/WSH | MTL/WSH | 0 | 36 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 24 | Taylor ChorneyDWSH/CBJ | WSH/CBJ | 0 | 25 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 25 | Nathan WalkerFWSH/EDM | WSH/EDM | 0 | 9 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 0.1% |
| 26 | Aaron NessDWSH | WSH | 0 | 8 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 27 | Liam O'BrienFWSH | WSH | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| 28 | Shane GersichFWSH | WSH | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 29 | Anthony PelusoFWSH | WSH | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
How to read it
Total faceoffs won, all situations.
How reliable is it?
Totals follow ice time and role; win rates are a real, repeatable skill once a centre has a few hundred draws.
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