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NHL Faceoffs Won Leaders: Washington Capitals
2018-19All 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 2018-19: Nicklas Backstrom (WSH), 700 FOW.
Faceoffs Won leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | FOW | GP | Per game | FOL | FO% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicklas BackstromFWSH | WSH | 700 | 80 | 8.75 | 739 | 48.6% | — |
| 2 | Lars EllerFWSH | WSH | 543 | 81 | 6.70 | 566 | 49.0% | 0.2% |
| 3 | Evgeny KuznetsovFWSH | WSH | 396 | 76 | 5.21 | 627 | 38.7% | — |
| 4 | Nic DowdFWSH | WSH | 245 | 64 | 3.83 | 227 | 51.9% | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 5 | T.J. OshieFWSH | WSH | 84 | 69 | 1.22 | 121 | 41.0% | — |
| 6 | Travis BoydFWSH | WSH | 76 | 53 | 1.43 | 134 | 36.2% | — |
| 7 | Chandler StephensonFWSH | WSH | 47 | 64 | 0.73 | 48 | 49.5% | 17%▲13 |
| 8 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 29 | 63 | 0.46 | 24 | 54.7% | 94%▲6.3 |
| 9 | Devante Smith-PellyFWSH | WSH | 16 | 54 | 0.30 | 25 | 39.0% | — |
| 10 | Brett ConnollyFWSH | WSH | 9 | 81 | 0.11 | 22 | 29.0% | — |
| 11 | Andre BurakovskyFWSH | WSH | 7 | 76 | 0.09 | 13 | 35.0% | 5.6%▲5.4 |
| 12 | Carl HagelinFLAK/WSH/PIT | LAK/WSH/PIT | 6 | 58 | 0.10 | 21 | 22.2% | — |
| 13 | Jakub VranaFWSH | WSH | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 6 | 40.0% | — |
| 14 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 4 | 20.0% | 96%▲1.2 |
| 15 | Dmitry OrlovDWSH | WSH | 0 | 82 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 35%▲21 |
| 16 | Matt NiskanenDWSH | WSH | 0 | 80 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 17 | John CarlsonDWSH | WSH | 0 | 80 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 99%▲2.4 |
| 18 | Nick JensenDDET/WSH | DET/WSH | 0 | 80 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 0.1% |
| 19 | Michal KempnyDWSH | WSH | 0 | 71 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 20 | Brooks OrpikDWSH | WSH | 0 | 53 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 21 | Madison BoweyDWSH/DET | WSH/DET | 0 | 50 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 22 | Christian DjoosDWSH | WSH | 0 | 45 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 23 | Dmitrij JaskinFWSH | WSH | 0 | 37 | 0.00 | 3 | 0.0% | — |
| 24 | Jonas SiegenthalerDWSH | WSH | 0 | 26 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 3.3%▲2.9 |
| 25 | Nathan WalkerFWSH | WSH | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 0.1% |
| 26 | Tyler LewingtonDWSH | 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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