The Detroit Red Wings used 31 players in the 2005-06 season, with a 58-16-8 record. Pavel Datsyuk led the team with 87 points (28 goals, 59 assists) in 75 games. Manny Legace played the most games in goal (51).
| # | 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 | Pavel Datsyuk 🇷🇺 C 27 | 75 | 🔥 1 | 28 | 59 | 87 | 1.16 | 11 | 145 | 20 | 34 | 22 | 17:53 |
| 2 | Henrik Zetterberg 🇸🇪 C 25 | 77 | 🔥 3 | 39 | 46 | 85 | 1.10 | 17 | 270 | 19 | 29 | 30 | 18:57 |
| 3 | Brendan Shanahan 🇨🇦 LW 37 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 40 | 41 | 81 | 0.99 | 14 | 289 | 74 | 28 | 105 | 16:35 |
| 4 | Robert Lang 🇨🇿 C 35 | 72 | 🧊 3 | 20 | 42 | 62 | 0.86 | 8 | 171 | 20 | 17 | 72 | 16:14 |
| 5 | Tomas Holmstrom 🇸🇪 LW 33 | 81 | 🔥 4 | 29 | 30 | 59 | 0.73 | 11 | 140 | 46 | 11 | 66 | 13:58 |
| 6 | Jason Williams 🇨🇦 C 25 | 80 | 🔥 1 | 21 | 37 | 58 | 0.72 | 6 | 177 | 94 | 24 | 26 | 14:55 |
| 7 | Mikael Samuelsson 🇸🇪 RW 29 | 71 | 🔥 2 | 23 | 22 | 45 | 0.63 | 7 | 187 | 49 | 16 | 42 | 13:31 |
| 8 | Steve Yzerman 🇨🇦 C 40 | 61 | 🧊 2 | 14 | 20 | 34 | 0.56 | 4 | 86 | 19 | 17 | 18 | 12:46 |
| 9 | Kris Draper 🇨🇦 C 34 | 80 | 🔥 1 | 10 | 22 | 32 | 0.40 | 0 | 153 | 63 | 26 | 58 | 17:46 |
| 10 | Johan Franzen 🇸🇪 RW 26 | 80 | 🧊 1 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 0.20 | 0 | 119 | 87 | 47 | 36 | 12:27 |
| 11 | Mark Mowers 🇺🇸 RW 32 | 46 | 🔥 1 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 0.33 | 0 | 65 | 30 | 8 | 16 | 8:18 |
| 12 | Daniel Cleary 🇨🇦 RW 27 | 77 | 🧊 8 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 0.19 | 0 | 106 | 65 | 32 | 40 | 10:29 |
| 13 | Kirk Maltby 🇨🇦 LW 33 | 82 | 🧊 11 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0.13 | 0 | 115 | 118 | 51 | 80 | 13:44 |
| 14 | Donald MacLean 🇨🇦 C 29 | 3 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.67 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12:45 |
| 15 | Valtteri Filppula 🇫🇮 C 22 | 4 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.25 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7:19 |
| 16 | Jiri Hudler 🇨🇿 RW 22 | 4 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7:13 |
| 17 | Tomas Kopecky 🇸🇰 RW 24 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9:41 |
| Team totals · 17 skaters | 82 | 249 | 354 | 603 | 7.35 | 79 | 2031 | 715 | 343 | 617 |
| # | 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 | Manny Legace 🇨🇦 G 33 | 51 | 38 | 2.08 | 0.915 | 1138 | 106 | — | |
| 2 | Jimmy Howard 🇺🇸 G 22 | 4 | 1 | 2.50 | 0.904 | 94 | 10 | — | |
| 3 | Chris Osgood 🇨🇦 G 33 | 32 | 21 | 2.66 | 0.897 | 743 | 85 | — |
42% of this roster was born in Canada, against 54% across the league. The team leans on Sweden: 23% of its players, against 5% league-wide. Swedish-born players scored 38% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 13 |
|
-12 | 255 (31%) | Shanahan, Williams, Yzerman, Draper +9 |
| Sweden | 7 |
|
+18 | 309 (38%) | Zetterberg, Lidstrom, Holmstrom, Samuelsson +3 |
| United States | 5 |
|
-2 | 97 (12%) | Schneider, Mowers, Lebda, Chelios +1 |
| Czechia | 3 |
|
+3 | 70 (9%) | Lang, Fischer, Hudler |
| Finland | 1 |
|
-1 | 1 (0%) | Filppula |
| Russia | 1 |
|
-1 | 87 (11%) | Datsyuk |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
even | 0 | Kopecky |
Pavel Datsyuk led the Detroit Red Wings in scoring in 2005-06 with 87 points — 28 goals and 59 assists in 75 games. Next came Henrik Zetterberg (85) and Brendan Shanahan (81).
Brendan Shanahan scored 40 goals for the Detroit Red Wings in 2005-06, 14 of them on the power play.
The Detroit Red Wings dressed 31 players in 2005-06: 28 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 301 goals.
Manny Legace played the most games in goal for the Detroit Red Wings in 2005-06: 51 games, 38 wins, a 0.915 save percentage and a 2.08 goals against average. Chris Osgood was the backup, in 32 games.
Nicklas Lidstrom averaged 27:29 of ice time per game for the Detroit Red Wings in 2005-06, the most on the roster.
The average age was 30.0 years. Kyle Quincey was the youngest at 20, and Chris Chelios the oldest at 44.
The Detroit Red Wings used 31 players in 2005-06 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 13 in Canada, 7 in Sweden and 5 in the United States. The other 6 came from Czechia, Finland, Russia and Slovakia. League-wide that season, 54% of players were born in Canada, against 42% on this roster.