With the recent influx of brand-new Penguins, I’ve spent a fair amount of time looking up stats as a way of getting a feel for our newbies. One of my favorite ways to familiarize myself with a player is to look at his WAR chart, short for Wins Above Replacement.
Being a stat nerd at heart, I thought it would be cool to list the WAR for each member of the team. Prominent departures, too.
Before we get to the tables, a quicky WAR review. Just so I’m not reinventing the wheel, I’m going to pirate my explanation from last summer’s article.