The Carolina Hurricanes used 35 players in the 2008-09 season, with a 45-30-7 record. Ray Whitney led the team with 77 points (24 goals, 53 assists) in 82 games. Cam Ward played the most games in goal (68).
| # | 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 | Ray Whitney 🇨🇦 LW 36 | 82 | 🔥 5 | 24 | 53 | 77 | 0.94 | 7 | 219 | 27 | 26 | 32 | 18:24 |
| 2 | Eric Staal 🇨🇦 C 24 | 82 | 🧊 1 | 40 | 35 | 75 | 0.91 | 14 | 372 | 61 | 37 | 50 | 21:02 |
| 3 | Tuomo Ruutu 🇫🇮 LW 26 | 79 | 🧊 2 | 26 | 28 | 54 | 0.68 | 10 | 190 | 228 | 44 | 79 | 18:18 |
| 4 | Rod Brind'Amour 🇨🇦 C 38 | 80 | 🔥 1 | 16 | 35 | 51 | 0.64 | 6 | 135 | 76 | 35 | 36 | 18:58 |
| 5 | Sergei Samsonov 🇷🇺 LW 30 | 81 | 🧊 2 | 16 | 32 | 48 | 0.59 | 3 | 155 | 32 | 28 | 28 | 17:19 |
| 6 | Matt Cullen 🇺🇸 C 32 | 69 | 🧊 1 | 22 | 21 | 43 | 0.62 | 4 | 139 | 41 | 44 | 20 | 16:48 |
| 7 | Chad LaRose 🇺🇸 RW 27 | 81 | 🧊 3 | 19 | 12 | 31 | 0.38 | 0 | 171 | 121 | 43 | 35 | 15:08 |
| 8 | Scott Walker 🇨🇦 RW 35 | 41 | 🧊 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 0.37 | 1 | 71 | 79 | 10 | 39 | 13:19 |
| 9 | Erik Cole 🇺🇸 LW 30 | 17 | 🧊 2 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 0.88 | 0 | 33 | 46 | 10 | 10 | 19:35 |
| 10 | Patrick Eaves 🇨🇦 RW 24 | 74 | 🧊 6 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 0.19 | 1 | 115 | 134 | 33 | 31 | 11:15 |
| 11 | Ryan Bayda 🇨🇦 LW 28 | 70 | 🧊 9 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0.17 | 0 | 62 | 82 | 46 | 26 | 10:27 |
| 12 | Jussi Jokinen 🇫🇮 LW 26 | 25 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 0.44 | 0 | 37 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 14:43 |
| 13 | Justin Williams 🇨🇦 RW 27 | 32 | 🔥 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0.31 | 2 | 80 | 30 | 6 | 9 | 15:08 |
| 14 | Brandon Sutter 🇺🇸 C 20 | 50 | 🧊 21 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0.12 | 0 | 57 | 37 | 18 | 16 | 8:49 |
| 15 | Dan Lacouture 🇺🇸 LW 31 | 11 | 🧊 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.18 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 4:16 |
| 16 | Dwight Helminen 🇺🇸 C 25 | 23 | 🧊 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.09 | 0 | 15 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 6:49 |
| 17 | Michael Ryan 🇺🇸 C 28 | 18 | 🧊 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.11 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 8:12 |
| 18 | Patrick Dwyer 🇺🇸 RW 25 | 13 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.08 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 8:33 |
| 19 | Jakub Petruzalek 🇨🇿 C 23 | 2 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.50 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8:04 |
| 20 | Zach Boychuk 🇨🇦 LW 19 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12:03 |
| Team totals · 20 skaters | 82 | 190 | 280 | 470 | 5.73 | 48 | 1888 | 1069 | 413 | 435 |
| # | 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 | Cam Ward 🇨🇦 G 25 | 68 | 39 | 2.35 | 0.916 | 1741 | 160 | — | |
| 2 | Michael Leighton 🇨🇦 G 27 | 19 | 6 | 2.63 | 0.901 | 457 | 50 | — |
37% of this roster was born in Canada, against 52% across the league. The team leans on United States: 34% of its players, against 22% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 40% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 13 |
|
-15 | 257 (40%) | Whitney, Staal, Brind'Amour, Walker +9 |
| United States | 12 |
|
+12 | 153 (24%) | Cullen, Corvo, LaRose, Cole +8 |
| Czechia | 3 |
|
+3 | 13 (2%) | Kaberle, Melichar, Petruzalek |
| Finland | 3 |
|
+5 | 98 (15%) | Ruutu, Pitkanen, Jokinen |
| Germany | 1 |
|
+2 | 30 (5%) | Seidenberg |
| Russia | 1 |
|
even | 48 (7%) | Samsonov |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-2 | 10 (2%) | Wallin |
| Ukraine | 1 |
|
+3 | 35 (5%) | Babchuk |
Ray Whitney led the Carolina Hurricanes in scoring in 2008-09 with 77 points — 24 goals and 53 assists in 82 games. Next came Eric Staal (75) and Tuomo Ruutu (54).
Eric Staal scored 40 goals for the Carolina Hurricanes in 2008-09, 14 of them on the power play.
The Carolina Hurricanes dressed 35 players in 2008-09: 33 skaters and 2 goalies. Together the skaters scored 236 goals.
Cam Ward played the most games in goal for the Carolina Hurricanes in 2008-09: 68 games, 39 wins, a 0.916 save percentage and a 2.35 goals against average. Michael Leighton was the backup, in 19 games.
Joni Pitkanen averaged 24:48 of ice time per game for the Carolina Hurricanes in 2008-09, the most on the roster.
The average age was 27.6 years. Zach Boychuk was the youngest at 19, and Rod Brind'Amour the oldest at 38.
The Carolina Hurricanes used 35 players in 2008-09 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 13 in Canada, 12 in the United States and 3 in Czechia. The other 7 came from Finland, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine. League-wide that season, 52% of players were born in Canada, against 37% on this roster.