The Atlanta Thrashers used 34 players in the 2008-09 season, with a 35-41-6 record. Ilya Kovalchuk led the team with 91 points (43 goals, 48 assists) in 79 games. Kari Lehtonen played the most games in goal (46).
| # | Player — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Streak | G — sort by goals ⇅ | A — sort by assists ⇅ | PTS — sort by points ▼ | P/GP — sort by points per game ⇅ | PPG — sort by power-play goals ⇅ | SOG — sort by shots on goal ⇅ | HIT — sort by hits ⇅ | BLK — sort by blocked shots ⇅ | PIM — sort by penalty minutes ⇅ | TOI — sort by average ice time ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ilya Kovalchuk 🇷🇺 LW 25 | 79 | 🔥 1 | 43 | 48 | 91 | 1.15 | 12 | 275 | 43 | 15 | 50 | 21:48 |
| 2 | Vyacheslav Kozlov 🇷🇺 LW 36 | 82 | 🔥 2 | 26 | 50 | 76 | 0.93 | 12 | 165 | 37 | 17 | 44 | 17:14 |
| 3 | Todd White 🇨🇦 C 33 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 22 | 51 | 73 | 0.89 | 12 | 150 | 39 | 33 | 24 | 18:03 |
| 4 | Bryan Little 🇨🇦 C 21 | 79 | 🧊 3 | 31 | 20 | 51 | 0.65 | 12 | 172 | 40 | 17 | 24 | 16:55 |
| 5 | Colby Armstrong 🇨🇦 RW 26 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 22 | 18 | 40 | 0.49 | 3 | 141 | 88 | 23 | 75 | 15:09 |
| 6 | Ron Hainsey 🇺🇸 D 28 | 81 | 🔥 1 | 6 | 33 | 39 | 0.48 | 4 | 148 | 60 | 127 | 32 | 22:22 |
| 7 | Rich Peverley 🇨🇦 C 26 | 39 | 🔥 1 | 13 | 22 | 35 | 0.90 | 2 | 75 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 18:49 |
| 8 | Toby Enstrom 🇸🇪 D 24 | 82 | 🔥 3 | 5 | 27 | 32 | 0.39 | 2 | 86 | 29 | 120 | 52 | 23:31 |
| 9 | Marty Reasoner 🇺🇸 C 32 | 79 | 🔥 3 | 14 | 16 | 30 | 0.38 | 0 | 131 | 41 | 60 | 36 | 15:18 |
| 10 | Eric Perrin 🇨🇦 C 33 | 78 | 🔥 1 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 0.29 | 1 | 109 | 47 | 28 | 36 | 14:10 |
| 11 | Zach Bogosian 🇺🇸 D 18 | 47 | 🔥 3 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 0.40 | 2 | 90 | 67 | 50 | 47 | 18:06 |
| 12 | Erik Christensen 🇨🇦 C 25 | 47 | 🔥 1 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 0.40 | 1 | 90 | 17 | 6 | 14 | 14:16 |
| 13 | Jim Slater 🇺🇸 C 26 | 60 | 🧊 3 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 0.30 | 0 | 94 | 85 | 42 | 52 | 11:14 |
| 14 | Jason Williams 🇨🇦 C 28 | 41 | 🧊 2 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 0.44 | 4 | 79 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 16:04 |
| 15 | Chris Thorburn 🇨🇦 RW 25 | 82 | 🧊 11 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 0.18 | 0 | 85 | 127 | 33 | 104 | 9:35 |
| 16 | Mathieu Schneider 🇺🇸 D 39 | 44 | 🧊 1 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 0.34 | 1 | 82 | 57 | 76 | 50 | 21:02 |
| 17 | Niclas Havelid 🇸🇪 D 35 | 63 | 🔥 1 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 0.24 | 0 | 41 | 36 | 164 | 42 | 20:54 |
| 18 | Eric Boulton 🇨🇦 LW 32 | 76 | 🧊 6 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 0.17 | 0 | 71 | 77 | 13 | 176 | 7:32 |
| 19 | Nathan Oystrick 🇨🇦 D 26 | 53 | 🧊 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0.23 | 0 | 43 | 91 | 54 | 50 | 15:44 |
| 20 | Joey Crabb 🇺🇸 RW 25 | 29 | 🔥 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0.31 | 0 | 33 | 54 | 15 | 28 | 12:12 |
| 21 | Colin Stuart 🇺🇸 LW 26 | 33 | 🔥 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0.24 | 0 | 54 | 59 | 16 | 18 | 12:28 |
| 22 | Garnet Exelby 🇨🇦 D 27 | 59 | 🔥 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0.12 | 0 | 42 | 151 | 99 | 120 | 16:43 |
| 23 | Boris Valabik 🇸🇰 D 23 | 50 | 🧊 34 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0.10 | 0 | 16 | 78 | 68 | 132 | 15:14 |
| 24 | Anssi Salmela 🇫🇮 D 24 | 9 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.33 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 17:31 |
| 25 | Joe Motzko 🇺🇸 RW 29 | 6 | 🧊 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.17 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11:39 |
| 26 | Brett Sterling 🇺🇸 LW 24 | 6 | 🧊 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.17 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13:53 |
| 27 | Scott Lehman 🇨🇦 D 23 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3:03 |
| 28 | Jordan Lavallee-Smotherman 🇺🇸 LW 22 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6:39 |
| 29 | Grant Lewis 🇺🇸 D 24 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:29 |
| 30 | Spencer Machacek 🇨🇦 RW 20 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8:11 |
| 31 | Clay Wilson 🇺🇸 D 25 | 2 | 🧊 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15:54 |
| Team totals · 31 skaters | 82 | 250 | 418 | 668 | 8.15 | 69 | 2306 | 1380 | 1122 | 1236 |
| # | Goalie — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Share of games | W — sort by wins ⇅ | GAA — sort by goals against average ▲ | SV% — sort by save percentage ⇅ | SV — sort by saves ⇅ | GA — sort by goals against ⇅ | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kari Lehtonen 🇫🇮 G 25 | 46 | 20 | 2.91 | 0.911 | 1364 | 134 | — | |
| 2 | Ondrej Pavelec 🇨🇿 G 21 | 12 | 3 | 3.00 | 0.880 | 265 | 36 | — | |
| 3 | Johan Hedberg 🇸🇪 G 35 | 33 | 14 | 3.03 | 0.886 | 775 | 100 | — |
38% of this roster was born in Canada, against 52% across the league. The team leans on United States: 35% of its players, against 22% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 46% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 13 |
|
-14 | 306 (46%) | White, Little, Armstrong, Peverley +9 |
| United States | 12 |
|
+13 | 140 (21%) | Hainsey, Reasoner, Bogosian, Slater +8 |
| Sweden | 3 |
|
+4 | 47 (7%) | Enstrom, Havelid, Hedberg |
| Finland | 2 |
|
+2 | 3 (0%) | Salmela, Lehtonen |
| Russia | 2 |
|
+3 | 167 (25%) | Kovalchuk, Kozlov |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
-3 | 0 | Pavelec |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+1 | 5 (1%) | Valabik |
Ilya Kovalchuk led the Atlanta Thrashers in scoring in 2008-09 with 91 points — 43 goals and 48 assists in 79 games. Next came Vyacheslav Kozlov (76) and Todd White (73).
Ilya Kovalchuk scored 43 goals for the Atlanta Thrashers in 2008-09, 12 of them on the power play.
The Atlanta Thrashers dressed 34 players in 2008-09: 31 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 250 goals.
Kari Lehtonen played the most games in goal for the Atlanta Thrashers in 2008-09: 46 games, 20 wins, a 0.911 save percentage and a 2.91 goals against average. Johan Hedberg was the backup, in 33 games.
Toby Enstrom averaged 23:31 of ice time per game for the Atlanta Thrashers in 2008-09, the most on the roster.
The average age was 26.8 years. Zach Bogosian was the youngest at 18, and Mathieu Schneider the oldest at 39.
The Atlanta Thrashers used 34 players in 2008-09 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 13 in Canada, 12 in the United States and 3 in Sweden. The other 6 came from Finland, Russia, Czechia and Slovakia. League-wide that season, 52% of players were born in Canada, against 38% on this roster.