The Detroit Red Wings used 32 players in the 2011-12 season, with a 48-28-6 record. Henrik Zetterberg led the team with 69 points (22 goals, 47 assists) in 82 games. Jimmy Howard played the most games in goal (57).
| # | 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 31 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 22 | 47 | 69 | 0.84 | 3 | 267 | 45 | 26 | 47 | 19:50 |
| 2 | Pavel Datsyuk 🇷🇺 C 33 | 70 | 🔥 1 | 19 | 48 | 67 | 0.96 | 4 | 164 | 76 | 31 | 14 | 19:34 |
| 3 | Valtteri Filppula 🇫🇮 C 28 | 81 | 🧊 1 | 23 | 43 | 66 | 0.81 | 3 | 144 | 42 | 23 | 14 | 18:15 |
| 4 | Johan Franzen 🇸🇪 RW 32 | 77 | 🔥 1 | 29 | 27 | 56 | 0.73 | 11 | 211 | 60 | 30 | 40 | 17:42 |
| 5 | Jiri Hudler 🇨🇿 RW 28 | 81 | 🧊 1 | 25 | 25 | 50 | 0.62 | 2 | 127 | 48 | 15 | 42 | 15:40 |
| 6 | Todd Bertuzzi 🇨🇦 RW 37 | 71 | 🧊 2 | 14 | 24 | 38 | 0.54 | 0 | 118 | 96 | 23 | 64 | 15:33 |
| 7 | Niklas Kronwall 🇸🇪 D 31 | 82 | 🧊 5 | 15 | 21 | 36 | 0.44 | 7 | 141 | 133 | 177 | 38 | 22:51 |
| 8 | Nicklas Lidstrom 🇸🇪 D 41 | 70 | 🧊 5 | 11 | 23 | 34 | 0.49 | 4 | 148 | 41 | 79 | 28 | 23:46 |
| 9 | Daniel Cleary 🇨🇦 RW 33 | 75 | 🧊 5 | 12 | 21 | 33 | 0.44 | 2 | 199 | 90 | 33 | 30 | 15:58 |
| 10 | Ian White 🇨🇦 D 27 | 77 | 🧊 5 | 7 | 25 | 32 | 0.42 | 0 | 196 | 49 | 92 | 22 | 22:58 |
| 11 | Darren Helm 🇨🇦 C 25 | 68 | 🧊 3 | 9 | 17 | 26 | 0.38 | 0 | 124 | 97 | 27 | 12 | 14:30 |
| 12 | Drew Miller 🇺🇸 LW 28 | 80 | 🧊 7 | 14 | 11 | 25 | 0.31 | 0 | 131 | 79 | 66 | 20 | 12:52 |
| 13 | Tomas Holmstrom 🇸🇪 LW 39 | 74 | 🔥 2 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 0.32 | 10 | 97 | 56 | 6 | 40 | 11:52 |
| 14 | Justin Abdelkader 🇺🇸 LW 25 | 81 | 🧊 9 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 0.27 | 0 | 121 | 148 | 42 | 62 | 12:18 |
| 15 | Brad Stuart 🇨🇦 D 32 | 81 | 🧊 6 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 0.26 | 1 | 96 | 177 | 115 | 29 | 21:03 |
| 16 | Jakub Kindl 🇨🇿 D 25 | 55 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 0.24 | 0 | 69 | 61 | 32 | 25 | 14:03 |
| 17 | Jonathan Ericsson 🇸🇪 D 28 | 69 | 🧊 4 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 0.16 | 0 | 63 | 128 | 43 | 47 | 17:05 |
| 18 | Cory Emmerton 🇨🇦 C 23 | 71 | 🧊 18 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 0.14 | 0 | 63 | 37 | 31 | 14 | 8:06 |
| 19 | Brendan Smith 🇨🇦 D 23 | 14 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0.50 | 0 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 15:37 |
| 20 | Gustav Nyquist 🇸🇪 C 22 | 18 | 🧊 6 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0.39 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10:35 |
| 21 | Kyle Quincey 🇨🇦 D 26 | 18 | 🧊 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.17 | 1 | 37 | 33 | 24 | 29 | 20:22 |
| 22 | Chris Conner 🇺🇸 RW 28 | 8 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.38 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 10:33 |
| 23 | Jan Mursak 🇸🇮 LW 24 | 25 | 🧊 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.12 | 0 | 22 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 7:33 |
| 24 | Mike Commodore 🇨🇦 D 32 | 18 | 🧊 16 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.11 | 0 | 16 | 32 | 19 | 21 | 10:51 |
| 25 | Fabian Brunnstrom 🇸🇪 LW 27 | 5 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.20 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9:03 |
| 26 | Patrick Eaves 🇨🇦 RW 27 | 10 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.10 | 0 | 24 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 11:02 |
| 27 | Doug Janik 🇺🇸 D 32 | 9 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.11 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 14:30 |
| 28 | Riley Sheahan 🇨🇦 C 20 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6:03 |
| 29 | Joakim Andersson 🇸🇪 C 23 | 5 | 🧊 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6:40 |
| Team totals · 29 skaters | 82 | 239 | 422 | 661 | 8.06 | 48 | 2638 | 1612 | 972 | 669 |
| # | 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 | Jimmy Howard 🇺🇸 G 28 | 57 | 35 | 2.09 | 0.920 | 1377 | 119 | — | |
| 2 | Ty Conklin 🇺🇸 G 36 | 15 | 5 | 2.93 | 0.884 | 334 | 44 | — | |
| 3 | Joey MacDonald 🇨🇦 G 32 | 14 | 8 | 2.07 | 0.912 | 301 | 29 | — |
38% of this roster was born in Canada, against 53% across the league. The team leans on Sweden: 28% of its players, against 7% league-wide. Swedish-born players scored 36% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 12 |
|
-15 | 173 (26%) | Bertuzzi, Cleary, White, Helm +8 |
| Sweden | 9 |
|
+21 | 238 (36%) | Zetterberg, Franzen, Kronwall, Lidstrom +5 |
| United States | 6 |
|
-5 | 51 (8%) | Miller, Abdelkader, Conner, Janik +2 |
| Czechia | 2 |
|
+2 | 63 (10%) | Hudler, Kindl |
| Finland | 1 |
|
even | 66 (10%) | Filppula |
| Russia | 1 |
|
even | 67 (10%) | Datsyuk |
| Slovenia | 1 |
|
+3 | 3 (0%) | Mursak |
Henrik Zetterberg led the Detroit Red Wings in scoring in 2011-12 with 69 points — 22 goals and 47 assists in 82 games. Next came Pavel Datsyuk (67) and Valtteri Filppula (66).
Johan Franzen scored 29 goals for the Detroit Red Wings in 2011-12, 11 of them on the power play.
The Detroit Red Wings dressed 32 players in 2011-12: 29 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 239 goals.
Jimmy Howard played the most games in goal for the Detroit Red Wings in 2011-12: 57 games, 35 wins, a 0.920 save percentage and a 2.09 goals against average. Ty Conklin was the backup, in 15 games.
Nicklas Lidstrom averaged 23:46 of ice time per game for the Detroit Red Wings in 2011-12, the most on the roster.
The average age was 28.9 years. Riley Sheahan was the youngest at 20, and Nicklas Lidstrom the oldest at 41.
The Detroit Red Wings used 32 players in 2011-12 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 12 in Canada, 9 in Sweden and 6 in the United States. The other 5 came from Czechia, Finland, Russia and Slovenia. League-wide that season, 53% of players were born in Canada, against 38% on this roster.