The best part of the Toronto Maple Leafs season so far is that they are in second place in the league despite having missed Auston Matthews for 15 games and William Nylander missing 29 games. No matter how you shake it, the Leafs healthy lineup is insane.
Since we spend a good portion of our time arguing over who is good and who isn’t, I thought it would be fun to do an article on Wins Above Replacement.
On the wonderful stats site corsica.hockey, there is a stats called WAR – wins above replacement – which attempts to synthesize all stats into one easy to use number that is meant to represent how many wins a given player is worth so far compared to a random replacement player.