Over the past few years, a handful of enterprising statistics mavens on Twitter have taken it upon themselves to deliver us a wins above replacement (WAR) metric. Like the metric’s namesake in baseball, WAR tries to do two things:
- Control for and remove teammate and contextual information (zone starts, common teammates, ice time, among others), to try to isolate a player’s individual impact on the game.
- Give us a one-number metric that encompasses everything that player brings to hockey.
What follows is a look at the Sharks organization players who have not yet turned 25 as of September 15, 2018.