The New York Rangers used 30 players in the 2008-09 season, with a 43-30-9 record. Nikolay Zherdev led the team with 58 points (23 goals, 35 assists) in 82 games. Henrik Lundqvist played the most games in goal (70).
| # | 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 | Nikolay Zherdev 🇺🇦 RW 24 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 23 | 35 | 58 | 0.71 | 4 | 219 | 49 | 15 | 39 | 16:49 |
| 2 | Scott Gomez 🇺🇸 C 29 | 77 | 🔥 1 | 16 | 42 | 58 | 0.75 | 3 | 271 | 61 | 23 | 60 | 21:03 |
| 3 | Chris Drury 🇺🇸 C 32 | 81 | 🔥 2 | 22 | 34 | 56 | 0.69 | 10 | 219 | 42 | 90 | 32 | 20:14 |
| 4 | Markus Naslund 🇸🇪 LW 35 | 82 | 🔥 3 | 24 | 22 | 46 | 0.56 | 8 | 215 | 55 | 28 | 57 | 17:10 |
| 5 | Brandon Dubinsky 🇺🇸 C 22 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 13 | 28 | 41 | 0.50 | 3 | 188 | 251 | 24 | 112 | 16:38 |
| 6 | Ryan Callahan 🇺🇸 RW 24 | 81 | 🧊 1 | 22 | 18 | 40 | 0.49 | 2 | 237 | 265 | 32 | 45 | 17:03 |
| 7 | Nigel Dawes 🇨🇦 LW 24 | 52 | 🧊 3 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 0.37 | 3 | 96 | 73 | 19 | 15 | 13:02 |
| 8 | Aaron Voros 🇨🇦 LW 27 | 54 | 🔥 1 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 0.30 | 3 | 66 | 113 | 8 | 122 | 11:10 |
| 9 | Lauri Korpikoski 🇫🇮 LW 22 | 68 | 🧊 16 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 0.21 | 0 | 63 | 96 | 15 | 14 | 10:54 |
| 10 | Nik Antropov 🇰🇿 C 29 | 18 | 🔥 1 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0.72 | 2 | 53 | 32 | 6 | 6 | 17:05 |
| 11 | Fredrik Sjostrom 🇸🇪 LW 25 | 79 | 🧊 5 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0.16 | 0 | 95 | 120 | 49 | 30 | 12:10 |
| 12 | Sean Avery 🇨🇦 LW 28 | 18 | 🔥 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0.67 | 2 | 50 | 45 | 4 | 34 | 16:44 |
| 13 | Blair Betts 🇨🇦 C 29 | 81 | 🔥 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 0.12 | 0 | 83 | 93 | 51 | 16 | 10:36 |
| 14 | Petr Prucha 🇨🇿 RW 26 | 28 | 🧊 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0.32 | 0 | 44 | 46 | 13 | 16 | 12:08 |
| 15 | Colton Orr 🇨🇦 RW 27 | 82 | 🧊 26 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.06 | 0 | 40 | 133 | 14 | 193 | 6:29 |
| 16 | Dan Fritsche 🇺🇸 C 23 | 16 | 🔥 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.25 | 0 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 9:32 |
| 17 | Patrick Rissmiller 🇺🇸 LW 30 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9:12 |
| 18 | Artem Anisimov 🇷🇺 C 20 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9:27 |
| Team totals · 18 skaters | 82 | 175 | 239 | 414 | 5.05 | 40 | 1962 | 1497 | 392 | 793 |
| # | 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 | Henrik Lundqvist 🇸🇪 G 27 | 70 | 38 | 2.40 | 0.916 | 1839 | 168 | — | |
| 2 | Steve Valiquette 🇨🇦 G 31 | 15 | 5 | 2.60 | 0.907 | 382 | 39 | — |
33% of this roster was born in Canada, against 52% across the league. The team leans on United States: 33% of its players, against 22% league-wide. American-born players scored 40% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 10 |
|
-19 | 133 (24%) | Redden, Girardi, Dawes, Voros +6 |
| United States | 10 |
|
+11 | 222 (40%) | Gomez, Drury, Dubinsky, Callahan +6 |
| Sweden | 3 |
|
+5 | 59 (11%) | Naslund, Sjostrom, Lundqvist |
| Czechia | 2 |
|
+1 | 39 (7%) | Rozsival, Prucha |
| Russia | 2 |
|
+4 | 13 (2%) | Kalinin, Anisimov |
| Finland | 1 |
|
-1 | 14 (3%) | Korpikoski |
| Kazakhstan | 1 |
|
+3 | 13 (2%) | Antropov |
| Ukraine | 1 |
|
+3 | 58 (11%) | Zherdev |
Nikolay Zherdev led the New York Rangers in scoring in 2008-09 with 58 points — 23 goals and 35 assists in 82 games. Next came Scott Gomez (58) and Chris Drury (56).
Markus Naslund scored 24 goals for the New York Rangers in 2008-09, 8 of them on the power play.
The New York Rangers dressed 30 players in 2008-09: 28 skaters and 2 goalies. Together the skaters scored 200 goals.
Henrik Lundqvist played the most games in goal for the New York Rangers in 2008-09: 70 games, 38 wins, a 0.916 save percentage and a 2.40 goals against average. Steve Valiquette was the backup, in 15 games.
Michal Rozsival averaged 22:30 of ice time per game for the New York Rangers in 2008-09, the most on the roster.
The average age was 26.7 years. Artem Anisimov was the youngest at 20, and Markus Naslund the oldest at 35.
The New York Rangers used 30 players in 2008-09 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 10 in Canada, 10 in the United States and 3 in Sweden. The other 7 came from Czechia, Russia, Finland, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. League-wide that season, 52% of players were born in Canada, against 33% on this roster.