Washington Capitals Stats 2020-21

2020-21 · 36-15-5 · 77 pts · 3rd Metropolitan

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The Washington Capitals went 36-15-5 in 2020-21 (77 points).

Nicklas Backstrom led the team with 53 points (15 goals) in 55 games, ahead of John Carlson with 44.

Vitek Vanecek made 36 starts in goal, going 21-10-4 with a .908 save percentage.

Every Washington Capitals game of 2020-21: scores and results →

Skaters (2020-21)

Washington Capitals skater stats
Player	Pos	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PPP	SHP	GWG	SOG	Hits	Blk	TK	GV	TOI/GP	PP/GP	SH/GP	FO%	5v5 CF%	5v5 GF-GA
Nicklas Backstrom	C	55	15	38	53	0	22	0	0	91	25	27	33	24	18:36	3:01	0:19	48.3%	50.4%	44-27
John Carlson	D	52	10	34	44	-5	15	0	1	128	52	69	24	21	23:47	3:11	1:52	—	51.0%	46-40
T.J. Oshie	R	53	22	21	43	-3	17	0	1	106	70	27	28	28	18:04	3:01	0:30	47.9%	51.8%	37-29
Alex Ovechkin	L	45	24	18	42	-7	17	0	6	182	98	23	11	20	19:30	4:07	0:02	—	48.1%	37-29
Tom Wilson	R	47	13	20	33	+1	8	1	4	83	105	25	20	16	16:32	1:33	1:33	42.3%	49.3%	34-24
Evgeny Kuznetsov	C	41	9	20	29	+7	8	0	4	78	21	18	16	19	16:34	2:25	0:03	41.4%	51.2%	33-18
Justin Schultz	D	46	3	24	27	+12	8	0	1	67	28	49	12	25	19:01	1:36	0:06	—	49.3%	43-28
Jakub Vrana	L	39	11	14	25	+9	4	0	4	68	26	4	15	18	14:22	2:17	0:01	—	50.4%	29-15
Lars Eller	C	44	8	15	23	-1	4	0	2	69	36	16	19	20	16:21	0:49	1:58	50.4%	55.1%	22-25
Conor Sheary	L	53	14	8	22	-1	3	0	1	88	24	20	25	8	13:43	1:00	0:00	—	53.8%	26-26
Dmitry Orlov	D	51	8	14	22	+16	2	0	2	83	87	50	30	25	19:49	0:41	0:36	—	52.1%	46-32
Daniel Sprong	R	42	13	7	20	+7	0	0	3	74	28	1	11	13	11:40	0:37	0:01	—	49.8%	31-22
Brenden Dillon	D	56	2	17	19	+15	1	1	0	51	143	61	13	27	18:57	0:03	1:49	—	50.2%	52-40
Garnet Hathaway	R	56	6	12	18	+7	0	1	0	62	179	30	10	10	12:19	0:03	1:19	41.7%	48.2%	26-23
Carl Hagelin	L	56	6	10	16	+7	0	1	0	85	22	19	21	16	14:06	0:03	2:34	—	49.3%	25-22
Nic Dowd	C	56	11	4	15	+4	0	0	3	68	109	40	38	15	14:22	0:07	2:17	56.3%	46.8%	21-23
Nick Jensen	D	53	2	12	14	+5	0	0	0	60	56	65	15	29	17:18	0:03	2:39	—	50.1%	30-27
Zdeno Chara	D	55	2	8	10	+5	0	0	0	67	88	67	14	32	18:19	0:15	2:39	—	49.7%	35-32
Richard Panik	R	36	3	6	9	-9	1	0	0	40	53	16	13	13	11:36	0:19	0:05	—	52.3%	12-19
Anthony Mantha	R	14	4	4	8	0	2	0	0	38	15	7	5	11	17:45	2:18	0:02	—	57.9%	8-5
Trevor van Riemsdyk	D	20	1	2	3	-1	1	0	0	23	13	27	2	7	17:05	0:15	1:42	—	52.0%	9-10
Michael Raffl	L	10	1	2	3	+1	0	0	1	19	21	5	7	3	15:13	0:48	0:39	60.0%	63.2%	3-2
Michael Sgarbossa	C	5	0	2	2	+2	0	0	0	4	1	2	4	0	9:48	1:21	0:01	34.5%	44.8%	4-2
Daniel Carr	L	6	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	5	10	4	1	2	10:14	0:02	0:03	—	48.2%	2-4
Jonas Siegenthaler	D	7	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	3	6	10	1	2	13:23	0:00	2:15	—	46.2%	0-3
Garrett Pilon	C	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	10:40	0:52	0:50	—	50.0%	0-0
Connor McMichael	L	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	9:54	0:00	0:00	—	38.1%	0-0
Philippe Maillet	C	2	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	9:09	0:00	0:00	—	62.5%	0-1
Brian Pinho	C	2	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	0	7:49	0:00	0:00	—	52.0%	0-2

Regular season. Column headers open the league leaderboard for the season. Completed seasons use the NHL's official power-play and shorthanded totals. Recording changed in 2024-25: giveaways roughly doubled and takeaways fell by a third, so compare within a season.

Goalies (2020-21)

Washington Capitals goalie stats
Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SV%	GAA	SO	Last start
Vitek Vanecek	37	36	21	10	4	.908	2.69	2	May 11
Ilya Samsonov	19	18	13	4	1	.902	2.69	2	May 1
Craig Anderson	4	2	2	1	0	.915	2.13	0	May 8