The Carolina Hurricanes used 23 players in the 2008-09 playoffs, with a 8-9-1 record. Eric Staal led the team with 15 points (10 goals, 5 assists) in 18 games. Cam Ward played the most games in goal (18).
| # | 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 | Eric Staal 🇨🇦 C 24 | 18 | 🔥 1 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 0.83 | 3 | 73 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 21:31 |
| 2 | Jussi Jokinen 🇫🇮 LW 26 | 18 | 🧊 2 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0.61 | 2 | 28 | 20 | 12 | 2 | 15:34 |
| 3 | Chad LaRose 🇺🇸 RW 27 | 18 | 🧊 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 0.61 | 0 | 51 | 43 | 10 | 16 | 17:47 |
| 4 | Ray Whitney 🇨🇦 LW 36 | 18 | 🧊 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 0.61 | 0 | 55 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18:35 |
| 5 | Sergei Samsonov 🇷🇺 LW 30 | 17 | 🔥 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0.47 | 0 | 28 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 15:48 |
| 6 | Joni Pitkanen 🇫🇮 D 25 | 18 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0.44 | 0 | 46 | 23 | 22 | 16 | 26:28 |
| 7 | Joe Corvo 🇺🇸 D 31 | 18 | 🧊 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.39 | 1 | 52 | 14 | 26 | 4 | 25:27 |
| 8 | Scott Walker 🇨🇦 RW 35 | 18 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0.39 | 0 | 25 | 45 | 8 | 19 | 11:31 |
| 9 | Matt Cullen 🇺🇸 C 32 | 18 | 🧊 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0.33 | 0 | 29 | 16 | 4 | 14 | 16:41 |
| 10 | Dennis Seidenberg 🇩🇪 D 27 | 16 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0.38 | 0 | 18 | 59 | 39 | 16 | 22:25 |
| 11 | Tim Gleason 🇺🇸 D 26 | 18 | 🧊 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.28 | 0 | 11 | 59 | 34 | 32 | 20:28 |
| 12 | Erik Cole 🇺🇸 LW 30 | 18 | 🔥 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0.28 | 0 | 32 | 76 | 3 | 22 | 17:17 |
| 13 | Ryan Bayda 🇨🇦 LW 28 | 15 | 🧊 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.27 | 0 | 17 | 16 | 2 | 18 | 6:20 |
| 14 | Tuomo Ruutu 🇫🇮 LW 26 | 16 | 🧊 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.25 | 0 | 17 | 54 | 5 | 8 | 14:15 |
| 15 | Rod Brind'Amour 🇨🇦 C 38 | 18 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.22 | 0 | 29 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 15:22 |
| 16 | Patrick Eaves 🇨🇦 RW 24 | 18 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.17 | 0 | 21 | 37 | 8 | 13 | 9:29 |
| 17 | Frantisek Kaberle 🇨🇿 D 35 | 7 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.14 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 12:14 |
| 18 | Patrick Dwyer 🇺🇸 RW 25 | 2 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.50 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4:47 |
| 19 | Anton Babchuk 🇺🇦 D 24 | 13 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.08 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 16:02 |
| 20 | Dwight Helminen 🇺🇸 C 25 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3:08 |
| 21 | Niclas Wallin 🇸🇪 D 34 | 18 | 🧊 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 10 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 13:45 |
| 22 | Tim Conboy 🇺🇸 D 27 | 3 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 4:22 |
| Team totals · 22 skaters | 18 | 42 | 76 | 118 | 6.56 | 6 | 570 | 549 | 230 | 227 |
| # | 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 | 18 | 8 | 2.72 | 0.915 | 527 | 49 | — |
35% of this roster was born in United States, against 22% across the league. The team leans on Finland: 13% of its players, against 4% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 37% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 |
|
+13 | 35 (30%) | LaRose, Corvo, Cullen, Cole +4 |
| Canada | 7 |
|
-21 | 44 (37%) | Staal, Whitney, Walker, Brind'Amour +3 |
| Finland | 3 |
|
+9 | 23 (19%) | Jokinen, Pitkanen, Ruutu |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
even | 1 (1%) | Kaberle |
| Germany | 1 |
|
+3 | 6 (5%) | Seidenberg |
| Russia | 1 |
|
even | 8 (7%) | Samsonov |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-4 | 0 | Wallin |
| Ukraine | 1 |
|
+3 | 1 (1%) | Babchuk |
Eric Staal led the Carolina Hurricanes in scoring in the 2008-09 playoffs with 15 points — 10 goals and 5 assists in 18 games. Next came Jussi Jokinen (11) and Chad LaRose (11).
Eric Staal scored 10 goals for the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2008-09 playoffs, 3 of them on the power play.
The Carolina Hurricanes dressed 23 players in the 2008-09 playoffs: 22 skaters and 1 goalies. Together the skaters scored 42 goals.
Cam Ward played the most games in goal for the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2008-09 playoffs: 18 games, 8 wins, a 0.915 save percentage and a 2.72 goals against average.
Joni Pitkanen averaged 26:28 of ice time per game for the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2008-09 playoffs, the most on the roster.
The average age was 28.7 years. Eric Staal was the youngest at 24, and Rod Brind'Amour the oldest at 38.
The Carolina Hurricanes used 23 players in the 2008-09 playoffs with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 8 in the United States, 7 in Canada and 3 in Finland. The other 5 came from Czechia, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine. League-wide that season, 22% of players were born in the United States, against 35% on this roster.