The Washington Capitals used 40 players in the 2005-06 season, with a 29-41-12 record. Alex Ovechkin led the team with 106 points (52 goals, 54 assists) in 81 games. Olie Kolzig played the most games in goal (59).
| # | 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 | Jamie Heward 🇨🇦 D 35 | 71 | 🔥 1 | 7 | 21 | 28 | 0.39 | 4 | 140 | 63 | 102 | 54 | 21:51 |
| 2 | Bryan Muir 🇨🇦 D 32 | 72 | 🧊 1 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 0.36 | 4 | 136 | 64 | 92 | 72 | 21:10 |
| 3 | Steve Eminger 🇨🇦 D 22 | 66 | 🔥 1 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 0.27 | 1 | 50 | 49 | 121 | 81 | 21:20 |
| 4 | Shaone Morrisonn 🇨🇦 D 23 | 80 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 0.17 | 0 | 56 | 72 | 131 | 91 | 20:43 |
| 5 | Mathieu Biron 🇨🇦 D 25 | 52 | 🧊 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0.25 | 3 | 61 | 56 | 30 | 50 | 12:13 |
| 6 | Brendan Witt 🇨🇦 D 31 | 58 | 🧊 7 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 0.19 | 0 | 62 | 145 | 131 | 141 | 21:41 |
| 7 | Ivan Majesky 🇸🇰 D 29 | 57 | 🧊 8 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0.16 | 0 | 35 | 65 | 67 | 66 | 17:19 |
| 8 | Nolan Yonkman 🇨🇦 D 25 | 38 | 🔥 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0.18 | 0 | 14 | 41 | 11 | 86 | 8:13 |
| 9 | Mike Green 🇨🇦 D 20 | 22 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.14 | 0 | 13 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 14:53 |
| Team totals · 9 skaters | 82 | 28 | 101 | 129 | 1.57 | 12 | 567 | 575 | 703 | 659 |
| # | 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 | Olie Kolzig 🇿🇦 G 35 | 59 | 20 | 3.49 | 0.896 | 1781 | 206 | — | |
| 2 | Brent Johnson 🇺🇸 G 29 | 26 | 9 | 3.12 | 0.905 | 773 | 81 | — | |
| 3 | Frederic Cassivi 🇨🇦 G 30 | 1 | 0 | 4.00 | 0.867 | 26 | 4 | — |
65% of this roster was born in Canada, against 54% across the league. Canadian-born players scored 50% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 26 |
|
+11 | 296 (50%) | Willsie, Pettinger, Sutherby, Heward +22 |
| United States | 6 |
|
-3 | 116 (20%) | Halpern, Clark, Clymer, Mink +2 |
| Czechia | 3 |
|
+1 | 10 (2%) | Klepis, Sykora, Fleischmann |
| Lithuania | 1 |
|
+2 | 57 (10%) | Zubrus |
| Russia | 1 |
|
-2 | 106 (18%) | Ovechkin |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
-1 | 9 (2%) | Majesky |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-3 | 0 | Johansson |
| South Africa | 1 |
|
+2 | 0 | Kolzig |
Alex Ovechkin led the Washington Capitals in scoring in 2005-06 with 106 points — 52 goals and 54 assists in 81 games. Next came Dainius Zubrus (57) and Jeff Halpern (44).
Alex Ovechkin scored 52 goals for the Washington Capitals in 2005-06, 21 of them on the power play.
The Washington Capitals dressed 40 players in 2005-06: 37 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 230 goals.
Olie Kolzig played the most games in goal for the Washington Capitals in 2005-06: 59 games, 20 wins, a 0.896 save percentage and a 3.49 goals against average. Brent Johnson was the backup, in 26 games.
Jamie Heward averaged 21:51 of ice time per game for the Washington Capitals in 2005-06, the most on the roster.
The average age was 26.4 years. Alex Ovechkin was the youngest at 20, and Andrew Cassels the oldest at 36.
The Washington Capitals used 40 players in 2005-06 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 26 in Canada, 6 in the United States and 3 in Czechia. The other 5 came from Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and South Africa. League-wide that season, 54% of players were born in Canada, against 65% on this roster.