The Nashville Predators used 30 players in the 2008-09 season, with a 40-34-8 record. J-P Dumont led the team with 65 points (16 goals, 49 assists) in 82 games. Pekka Rinne played the most games in goal (52).
| # | 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 | J-P Dumont 🇨🇦 RW 31 | 82 | 🔥 4 | 16 | 49 | 65 | 0.79 | 5 | 176 | 33 | 13 | 20 | 17:29 |
| 2 | Jason Arnott 🇨🇦 C 34 | 65 | 🔥 4 | 33 | 24 | 57 | 0.88 | 9 | 196 | 34 | 18 | 49 | 18:54 |
| 3 | Shea Weber 🇨🇦 D 23 | 81 | 🔥 1 | 23 | 30 | 53 | 0.65 | 10 | 251 | 192 | 95 | 80 | 23:58 |
| 4 | Martin Erat 🇨🇿 RW 27 | 71 | 🧊 1 | 17 | 33 | 50 | 0.70 | 3 | 149 | 36 | 17 | 48 | 18:33 |
| 5 | Ryan Suter 🇺🇸 D 24 | 82 | 🧊 3 | 7 | 38 | 45 | 0.55 | 3 | 143 | 87 | 93 | 73 | 24:15 |
| 6 | David Legwand 🇺🇸 C 28 | 73 | 🔥 1 | 20 | 22 | 42 | 0.58 | 1 | 175 | 25 | 23 | 32 | 19:26 |
| 7 | Joel Ward 🇨🇦 RW 28 | 79 | 🧊 2 | 17 | 18 | 35 | 0.44 | 3 | 133 | 65 | 69 | 29 | 16:00 |
| 8 | Steve Sullivan 🇨🇦 LW 34 | 41 | 🔥 1 | 11 | 21 | 32 | 0.78 | 3 | 83 | 15 | 6 | 30 | 18:29 |
| 9 | Dan Hamhuis 🇨🇦 D 26 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 3 | 23 | 26 | 0.32 | 1 | 135 | 133 | 113 | 67 | 22:50 |
| 10 | Radek Bonk 🇨🇿 C 33 | 66 | 🧊 3 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 0.38 | 6 | 102 | 58 | 28 | 34 | 15:26 |
| 11 | Vernon Fiddler 🇨🇦 C 28 | 78 | 🧊 2 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 0.22 | 1 | 114 | 83 | 31 | 24 | 13:57 |
| 12 | Ryan Jones 🇨🇦 LW 24 | 46 | 🧊 1 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 0.37 | 2 | 63 | 63 | 16 | 22 | 11:26 |
| 13 | Jordin Tootoo 🇨🇦 RW 26 | 72 | 🧊 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 0.22 | 0 | 138 | 129 | 14 | 124 | 12:05 |
| 14 | Jerred Smithson 🇨🇦 C 30 | 82 | 🧊 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0.16 | 0 | 74 | 140 | 50 | 49 | 13:50 |
| 15 | Kevin Klein 🇨🇦 D 24 | 63 | 🧊 6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0.19 | 1 | 41 | 57 | 47 | 19 | 12:39 |
| 16 | Greg Zanon 🇨🇦 D 28 | 82 | 🧊 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 0.13 | 0 | 54 | 153 | 237 | 38 | 20:51 |
| 17 | Ville Koistinen 🇫🇮 D 26 | 38 | 🧊 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 0.29 | 1 | 42 | 45 | 23 | 14 | 14:42 |
| 18 | Scott Nichol 🇨🇦 C 34 | 43 | 🧊 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0.23 | 0 | 42 | 79 | 15 | 41 | 11:04 |
| 19 | Rich Peverley 🇨🇦 C 26 | 27 | 🔥 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0.33 | 0 | 42 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 12:07 |
| 20 | Antti Pihlstrom 🇫🇮 LW 24 | 53 | 🧊 11 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.13 | 1 | 88 | 100 | 16 | 10 | 11:26 |
| 21 | Patric Hornqvist 🇸🇪 RW 22 | 28 | 🧊 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.25 | 0 | 54 | 20 | 13 | 16 | 11:23 |
| 22 | Cal O'Reilly 🇨🇦 C 22 | 11 | 🧊 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0.45 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12:36 |
| 23 | Greg De Vries 🇨🇦 D 36 | 71 | 🧊 30 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.07 | 0 | 38 | 58 | 73 | 65 | 15:07 |
| 24 | Wade Belak 🇨🇦 RW 32 | 38 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.05 | 0 | 15 | 37 | 6 | 54 | 5:35 |
| 25 | Nick Tarnasky 🇨🇦 LW 24 | 11 | 🔥 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.09 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 17 | 5:38 |
| 26 | Mike Santorelli 🇨🇦 C 23 | 7 | 🧊 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12:15 |
| 27 | Alexander Sulzer 🇩🇪 D 24 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6:33 |
| 28 | Jed Ortmeyer 🇺🇸 RW 30 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11:01 |
| Team totals · 28 skaters | 82 | 207 | 366 | 573 | 6.99 | 50 | 2375 | 1671 | 1035 | 974 |
| # | 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 | Pekka Rinne 🇫🇮 G 26 | 52 | 29 | 2.29 | 0.917 | 1316 | 119 | — | |
| 2 | Dan Ellis 🇨🇦 G 28 | 35 | 12 | 2.74 | 0.900 | 867 | 96 | — |
67% of this roster was born in Canada, against 52% across the league. The team leans on Finland: 10% of its players, against 4% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 67% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 20 |
|
+15 | 386 (67%) | Dumont, Arnott, Weber, Ward +16 |
| Finland | 3 |
|
+6 | 18 (3%) | Koistinen, Pihlstrom, Rinne |
| United States | 3 |
|
-12 | 87 (15%) | Suter, Legwand, Ortmeyer |
| Czechia | 2 |
|
+1 | 75 (13%) | Erat, Bonk |
| Germany | 1 |
|
+2 | 0 | Sulzer |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-2 | 7 (1%) | Hornqvist |
J-P Dumont led the Nashville Predators in scoring in 2008-09 with 65 points — 16 goals and 49 assists in 82 games. Next came Jason Arnott (57) and Shea Weber (53).
Jason Arnott scored 33 goals for the Nashville Predators in 2008-09, 9 of them on the power play.
The Nashville Predators dressed 30 players in 2008-09: 28 skaters and 2 goalies. Together the skaters scored 207 goals.
Pekka Rinne played the most games in goal for the Nashville Predators in 2008-09: 52 games, 29 wins, a 0.917 save percentage and a 2.29 goals against average. Dan Ellis was the backup, in 35 games.
Ryan Suter averaged 24:15 of ice time per game for the Nashville Predators in 2008-09, the most on the roster.
The average age was 27.5 years. Cal O'Reilly was the youngest at 22, and Greg De Vries the oldest at 36.
The Nashville Predators used 30 players in 2008-09 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 20 in Canada, 3 in Finland and 3 in the United States. The other 4 came from Czechia, Germany and Sweden. League-wide that season, 52% of players were born in Canada, against 67% on this roster.