The Detroit Red Wings used 29 players in the 2008-09 season, with a 51-21-10 record. Pavel Datsyuk led the team with 97 points (32 goals, 65 assists) in 81 games. Chris Osgood 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 | Nicklas Lidstrom 🇸🇪 D 38 | 78 | 🧊 1 | 16 | 43 | 59 | 0.76 | 10 | 180 | 43 | 67 | 30 | 24:49 |
| 2 | Brian Rafalski 🇺🇸 D 35 | 78 | 🧊 1 | 10 | 49 | 59 | 0.76 | 5 | 141 | 33 | 64 | 20 | 23:10 |
| 3 | Niklas Kronwall 🇸🇪 D 28 | 80 | 🧊 2 | 6 | 45 | 51 | 0.64 | 4 | 121 | 96 | 109 | 50 | 22:53 |
| 4 | Brett Lebda 🇺🇸 D 27 | 65 | 🧊 9 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 0.25 | 0 | 69 | 30 | 16 | 48 | 13:38 |
| 5 | Brad Stuart 🇨🇦 D 29 | 67 | 🧊 3 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 0.22 | 1 | 105 | 157 | 98 | 26 | 20:13 |
| 6 | Andreas Lilja 🇸🇪 D 33 | 60 | 🧊 8 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 0.22 | 0 | 60 | 95 | 92 | 66 | 16:59 |
| 7 | Derek Meech 🇨🇦 D 24 | 41 | 🧊 9 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.17 | 0 | 44 | 36 | 19 | 12 | 10:02 |
| 8 | Jonathan Ericsson 🇸🇪 D 25 | 19 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.21 | 0 | 25 | 28 | 12 | 15 | 17:40 |
| 9 | Chris Chelios 🇺🇸 D 47 | 28 | 🧊 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 14 | 22 | 12 | 18 | 11:40 |
| Team totals · 9 skaters | 82 | 45 | 179 | 224 | 2.73 | 20 | 759 | 540 | 489 | 285 |
| # | 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 | Chris Osgood 🇨🇦 G 36 | 46 | 26 | 2.98 | 0.887 | 1071 | 137 | — | |
| 2 | Ty Conklin 🇺🇸 G 33 | 40 | 25 | 2.35 | 0.909 | 939 | 94 | — | |
| 3 | Jimmy Howard 🇺🇸 G 25 | 1 | 0 | 4.00 | 0.857 | 24 | 4 | — |
31% of this roster was born in Canada, against 52% across the league. The team leans on Sweden: 28% of its players, against 5% league-wide. Swedish-born players scored 42% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 9 |
|
-21 | 94 (12%) | Cleary, Draper, Stuart, Maltby +5 |
| Sweden | 8 |
|
+23 | 336 (42%) | Zetterberg, Franzen, Lidstrom, Kronwall +4 |
| United States | 6 |
|
-1 | 75 (9%) | Rafalski, Lebda, Chelios, Abdelkader +2 |
| Finland | 2 |
|
+3 | 49 (6%) | Filppula, Leino |
| Slovakia | 2 |
|
+5 | 90 (11%) | Hossa, Kopecky |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
-3 | 57 (7%) | Hudler |
| Russia | 1 |
|
even | 97 (12%) | Datsyuk |
Pavel Datsyuk led the Detroit Red Wings in scoring in 2008-09 with 97 points — 32 goals and 65 assists in 81 games. Next came Henrik Zetterberg (73) and Marian Hossa (71).
Marian Hossa scored 40 goals for the Detroit Red Wings in 2008-09, 10 of them on the power play.
The Detroit Red Wings dressed 29 players in 2008-09: 26 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 289 goals.
Chris Osgood played the most games in goal for the Detroit Red Wings in 2008-09: 46 games, 26 wins, a 0.887 save percentage and a 2.98 goals against average. Ty Conklin was the backup, in 40 games.
Nicklas Lidstrom averaged 24:49 of ice time per game for the Detroit Red Wings in 2008-09, the most on the roster.
The average age was 30.5 years. Justin Abdelkader was the youngest at 22, and Chris Chelios the oldest at 47.
The Detroit Red Wings used 29 players in 2008-09 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 9 in Canada, 8 in Sweden and 6 in the United States. The other 6 came from Finland, Slovakia, Czechia and Russia. League-wide that season, 52% of players were born in Canada, against 31% on this roster.