The Detroit Red Wings used 25 players in the 2008-09 playoffs, with a 15-6-2 record. Henrik Zetterberg led the team with 24 points (11 goals, 13 assists) in 23 games. Chris Osgood played the most games in goal (23).
| # | 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 | Henrik Zetterberg 🇸🇪 C 28 | 23 | 🧊 2 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 1.04 | 4 | 82 | 39 | 18 | 13 | 22:09 |
| 2 | Johan Franzen 🇸🇪 RW 29 | 23 | 🧊 2 | 12 | 11 | 23 | 1.00 | 4 | 72 | 47 | 8 | 12 | 19:40 |
| 3 | Nicklas Lidstrom 🇸🇪 D 38 | 21 | 🔥 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 0.76 | 3 | 59 | 14 | 27 | 6 | 25:38 |
| 4 | Valtteri Filppula 🇫🇮 C 25 | 23 | 🧊 2 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 0.70 | 1 | 35 | 24 | 14 | 8 | 17:37 |
| 5 | Daniel Cleary 🇨🇦 RW 30 | 23 | 🧊 2 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 0.65 | 0 | 57 | 64 | 8 | 12 | 16:54 |
| 6 | Marian Hossa 🇸🇰 RW 30 | 23 | 🧊 2 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 0.65 | 2 | 100 | 56 | 7 | 10 | 18:38 |
| 7 | Jiri Hudler 🇨🇿 RW 25 | 23 | 🔥 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0.52 | 2 | 36 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 13:27 |
| 8 | Brian Rafalski 🇺🇸 D 35 | 18 | 🧊 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 0.67 | 3 | 24 | 12 | 21 | 11 | 22:26 |
| 9 | Mikael Samuelsson 🇸🇪 RW 32 | 23 | 🧊 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 0.43 | 0 | 79 | 42 | 2 | 6 | 15:08 |
| 10 | Brad Stuart 🇨🇦 D 29 | 23 | 🧊 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0.39 | 1 | 34 | 55 | 30 | 12 | 24:08 |
| 11 | Niklas Kronwall 🇸🇪 D 28 | 23 | 🧊 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0.39 | 2 | 32 | 59 | 36 | 33 | 23:23 |
| 12 | Pavel Datsyuk 🇷🇺 C 30 | 16 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0.56 | 1 | 52 | 30 | 5 | 9 | 20:05 |
| 13 | Jonathan Ericsson 🇸🇪 D 25 | 22 | 🔥 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0.36 | 0 | 33 | 39 | 19 | 25 | 18:43 |
| 14 | Tomas Holmstrom 🇸🇪 LW 36 | 23 | 🧊 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.30 | 0 | 25 | 39 | 1 | 22 | 13:44 |
| 15 | Brett Lebda 🇺🇸 D 27 | 23 | 🧊 7 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0.26 | 0 | 19 | 18 | 10 | 22 | 13:20 |
| 16 | Darren Helm 🇨🇦 C 22 | 23 | 🧊 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0.22 | 0 | 42 | 118 | 6 | 4 | 12:05 |
| 17 | Justin Abdelkader 🇺🇸 LW 22 | 10 | 🧊 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.30 | 0 | 11 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 6:58 |
| 18 | Ville Leino 🇫🇮 LW 25 | 7 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.29 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8:43 |
| 19 | Kris Draper 🇨🇦 C 37 | 8 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.12 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 8:36 |
| 20 | Kirk Maltby 🇨🇦 LW 36 | 20 | 🧊 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.05 | 0 | 12 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 9:06 |
| 21 | Tomas Kopecky 🇸🇰 RW 27 | 8 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.12 | 0 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 9:31 |
| 22 | Chris Chelios 🇺🇸 D 47 | 6 | 🧊 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7:21 |
| 23 | Derek Meech 🇨🇦 D 24 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4:04 |
| Team totals · 23 skaters | 23 | 76 | 128 | 204 | 8.87 | 23 | 835 | 755 | 232 | 222 |
| # | 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 | 23 | 15 | 2.04 | 0.926 | 590 | 47 | — | |
| 2 | Ty Conklin 🇺🇸 G 33 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 9 | 0 | — |
28% of this roster was born in Canada, against 51% across the league. The team leans on Sweden: 28% of its players, against 8% league-wide. Swedish-born players scored 48% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 7 |
|
-23 | 31 (15%) | Cleary, Stuart, Helm, Maltby +3 |
| Sweden | 7 |
|
+20 | 97 (48%) | Zetterberg, Franzen, Lidstrom, Samuelsson +3 |
| United States | 5 |
|
-2 | 21 (10%) | Rafalski, Lebda, Abdelkader, Chelios +1 |
| Finland | 2 |
|
+4 | 18 (9%) | Filppula, Leino |
| Slovakia | 2 |
|
+6 | 16 (8%) | Hossa, Kopecky |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
even | 12 (6%) | Hudler |
| Russia | 1 |
|
even | 9 (4%) | Datsyuk |
Henrik Zetterberg led the Detroit Red Wings in scoring in the 2008-09 playoffs with 24 points — 11 goals and 13 assists in 23 games. Next came Johan Franzen (23) and Nicklas Lidstrom (16).
Johan Franzen scored 12 goals for the Detroit Red Wings in the 2008-09 playoffs, 4 of them on the power play.
The Detroit Red Wings dressed 25 players in the 2008-09 playoffs: 23 skaters and 2 goalies. Together the skaters scored 76 goals.
Chris Osgood played the most games in goal for the Detroit Red Wings in the 2008-09 playoffs: 23 games, 15 wins, a 0.926 save percentage and a 2.04 goals against average. Ty Conklin was the backup, in 1 games.
Nicklas Lidstrom averaged 25:38 of ice time per game for the Detroit Red Wings in the 2008-09 playoffs, the most on the roster.
The average age was 30.2 years. Darren Helm was the youngest at 22, and Chris Chelios the oldest at 47.
The Detroit Red Wings used 25 players in the 2008-09 playoffs with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 7 in Canada, 7 in Sweden and 5 in the United States. The other 6 came from Finland, Slovakia, Czechia and Russia. League-wide that season, 51% of players were born in Canada, against 28% on this roster.