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Washington Capitals, 2026-27

Be the GM of the Washington Capitals Take over the 2026-27 team: trade, manage the cap and simulate the season.

Metropolitan Division, Eastern Conference

2026-27 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
10 4 3-1-0 6 0.750 14 9 +5 2-0-0 1-1-0

Records are wins, then losses, then losses in overtime or a shootout.

Analytics

Five-on-five, from 4 games. What these numbers mean

49.3Corsi for %19th of 32 · 166 attempts for, 171 against
49.8Fenwick for %17th of 32 · unblocked attempts
48.0Shots for %23rd of 32 · shots on goal
51.7Expected goals for %17th of 32 · 8.9 expected for, 8.3 against
64.7Goals for %7th of 32 · 11 for, 6 against
107.5PDO15.1% shooting + 92.4% saves

Each share is coloured by where it ranks among the 32 teams: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. PDO is left plain, since it is neither good nor bad on its own.

Lines and pairings

The three forwards and the two defencemen who spent the most time on the ice together at five-on-five, and how the team did while they were out: its share of the shot attempts and of the expected goals, and the goals for and against. Time is minutes and seconds across the season.

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tom Wilson · Alex Tuch · Pierre-Luc Dubois432:1052.952.13-0
Jordan Kyrou · Aliaksei Protas · Ilya Protas429:4256.956.41-3
Boone Jenner · Justin Sourdif · Ryan Leonard417:4966.777.51-0
Boone Jenner · Anthony Beauvillier · Justin Sourdif317:3046.950.11-1
Alex Ovechkin · Dylan Strome · Anthony Beauvillier213:4947.451.41-0
Alex Ovechkin · Dylan Strome · Ryan Leonard213:4429.726.71-0
Defence pairGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jakob Chychrun · Timothy Liljegren429:3059.765.53-1
Matt Roy · Jakob Chychrun221:4146.241.91-1
Vincent Desharnais · Cole Hutson421:3756.560.63-1
Vincent Desharnais · Martin Fehérváry421:1041.940.53-0
Timothy Liljegren · Martin Fehérváry316:3129.037.70-1

The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines and pairs that played a fair amount together: at least a tenth of the time of the busiest one. Hover over one for its percentile.

Where the shots come from

Shots for
Shots against

Every attempt in all situations, with the net being shot at on the right. Darker red means more attempts from that spot. Click a line in a key to see only that kind; Goals marks where each one was scored from.

Value for money

$94.5MCap space usedthe cap hits of its 19 ranked players
$103.5MWorth at the going rate128.0 goals above replacement
+$9MValue12th of 32 · worth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

What the team got for its cap space in the regular season, counting the players with enough games to be ranked and a known contract. A player's season is worth what teams as a whole paid for one like it, and value is that less his cap hit. A player who changed teams is shared out by the games he played for each. How value is worked out

Draft picks

The team's picks in the coming drafts, round by round. Each tile carries the logo of the team whose pick it was; a faded one is a pick of its own that another team now holds. Hover over a pick for the trade it came from or the condition on it. Trade them in Be a GM

1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th
2027
WSH
WSH
ANAPITtoCBJ
NJDWSH
WSH
toFLA
OTTWSH
2028
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
2029
WSH
VGKWSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
2030
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH
WSH

Own pick From another team to Traded away Condition not settled*

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats for it. Colours show where each number ranks in the league, from green (top fifth) to red (bottom fifth). Hover over a number for its percentile.

Cap hit is what a player counts against the salary cap this season. A star beside it means a former team pays part of it, and the amount shown is this team's share. Value is what his season was worth at the going rate, minus his cap hit. It appears once he has played enough to be ranked.

CF% and xGF% are the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals while he was on the ice at five-on-five. Rating is goals above replacement: the goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player who played the same minutes. For a player who changed teams, these numbers cover his whole season. The season is still being played, so each rating is projected over the whole season: the games played so far, plus the games left at the rate of the last three seasons and this one.

Skater Pos GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits CF% xGF% Rating Cap hit Value
Tom Wilson R 4 2 3 5 4 12 7 10 52.7 53.8 +9.6 $6.54M+$3.5M
Dylan Strome C 4 0 4 4 1 0 8 2 40.5 44.4 +4.6 $5M+$159K
Pierre-Luc Dubois C 4 1 3 4 4 6 6 5 54.1 56.0 +6.8 $8.5M-$1.2M
Alex Tuch R 4 3 0 3 5 0 13 4 53.9 52.9 +11.1 $10.5M+$904K
Jakob Chychrun D 4 1 2 3 1 8 9 2 54.3 55.4 +7.4 $9M-$1.1M
Ryan Leonard R 4 2 1 3 3 4 10 11 48.4 52.9 +1.7 $950K+$1.5M
Boone Jenner C 4 1 1 2 2 2 11 2 53.3 60.8 +5.1 $5.75M-$85K
Cole Hutson D 4 1 1 2 1 4 9 1 52.0 52.3 +0.6 $952K
Alex Ovechkin L 4 0 1 1 1 0 5 7 38.2 39.3 +0.9 $4.25M-$2.6M
Aliaksei Protas L 4 0 1 1 -3 2 4 0 53.6 53.2 +7.7 $3.375M+$4.8M
Anthony Beauvillier R 4 1 0 1 2 0 6 7 46.6 52.0 +3.4 $2.75M+$1.3M
Ilya Protas L 4 0 1 1 -2 0 1 0 52.5 51.8 +0.2 $889K
Jordan Kyrou R 4 0 1 1 -5 0 4 0 50.0 47.2 +11.1 $8.125M+$3.3M
Justin Sourdif C 4 1 0 1 1 4 3 8 47.1 49.6 +1.6 $825K+$1.5M
Timothy Liljegren D 4 1 0 1 1 0 4 2 47.4 60.5 +3.3 $3.25M+$687K
Dylan McIlrath D 2 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 57.7 62.4 -0.4 $850K-$408K
Martin Fehérváry D 4 0 0 0 3 4 1 8 44.0 43.9 +0.6 $6M-$4.6M
Matt Roy D 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 46.7 42.8 +1.6 $5.75M-$3.4M
Vincent Desharnais D 4 0 0 0 6 5 1 12 46.4 48.9 +0.6 $4.2M-$2.8M
Goalie GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save % Saved above xG Rating Cap hit Value
Logan Thompson 3 2000 86 80 6 2.00 0.930 +3.7 +42.9 $5.85M+$7.4M
Charlie Lindgren 1 0100 29 27 2 2.08 0.931 +1.7 +8.5 $3M+$290K

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Oct 9, 2026 vs NYR W 3-1 27 23
Oct 7, 2026 vs PIT W 5-3 27 30
Oct 3, 2026 @ TBL L 1-3 21 30
Oct 2, 2026 @ CAR W 5-2 27 33