The Washington Capitals used 32 players in the 2007-08 season, with a 43-31-8 record. Alex Ovechkin led the team with 112 points (65 goals, 47 assists) in 82 games. Olie Kolzig played the most games in goal (54).
| # | 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 | Alex Ovechkin 🇷🇺 LW 22 | 82 | 🧊 1 | 65 | 47 | 112 | 1.37 | 22 | 446 | 220 | 44 | 40 | 22:55 |
| 2 | Nicklas Backstrom 🇸🇪 C 20 | 82 | 🔥 3 | 14 | 55 | 69 | 0.84 | 3 | 153 | 34 | 34 | 24 | 18:59 |
| 3 | Viktor Kozlov 🇷🇺 C 33 | 81 | 🧊 1 | 16 | 38 | 54 | 0.67 | 2 | 219 | 51 | 32 | 18 | 17:34 |
| 4 | Alexander Semin 🇷🇺 RW 24 | 63 | 🔥 1 | 26 | 16 | 42 | 0.67 | 10 | 185 | 20 | 14 | 54 | 16:54 |
| 5 | Brooks Laich 🇨🇦 C 24 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 21 | 16 | 37 | 0.45 | 8 | 122 | 83 | 56 | 35 | 14:02 |
| 6 | Michael Nylander 🇸🇪 C 35 | 40 | 🔥 1 | 11 | 26 | 37 | 0.93 | 5 | 77 | 4 | 10 | 24 | 19:09 |
| 7 | Tomas Fleischmann 🇨🇿 LW 23 | 75 | 🔥 1 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 0.40 | 1 | 107 | 26 | 11 | 18 | 12:37 |
| 8 | Matt Bradley 🇨🇦 RW 29 | 77 | 🧊 1 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 0.23 | 1 | 111 | 126 | 17 | 74 | 9:59 |
| 9 | Boyd Gordon 🇨🇦 C 24 | 67 | 🧊 1 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 0.24 | 0 | 100 | 19 | 50 | 12 | 15:44 |
| 10 | Sergei Fedorov 🇷🇺 C 38 | 18 | 🔥 3 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 0.72 | 1 | 34 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 18:15 |
| 11 | David Steckel 🇺🇸 C 26 | 67 | 🧊 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0.18 | 0 | 66 | 91 | 42 | 34 | 13:33 |
| 12 | Chris Clark 🇺🇸 RW 32 | 18 | 🔥 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0.50 | 1 | 29 | 24 | 7 | 43 | 16:54 |
| 13 | Donald Brashear 🇺🇸 LW 36 | 80 | 🧊 14 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0.10 | 0 | 59 | 133 | 12 | 119 | 7:51 |
| 14 | Matt Cooke 🇨🇦 LW 29 | 17 | 🧊 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.41 | 0 | 18 | 44 | 9 | 27 | 12:19 |
| 15 | Matt Pettinger 🇨🇦 LW 27 | 56 | 🧊 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.12 | 1 | 98 | 49 | 20 | 25 | 14:42 |
| 16 | Quintin Laing 🇨🇦 LW 28 | 39 | 🧊 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0.15 | 0 | 48 | 49 | 52 | 10 | 11:33 |
| 17 | Eric Fehr 🇨🇦 C 22 | 23 | 🧊 10 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0.26 | 0 | 40 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 10:30 |
| 18 | Joe Motzko 🇺🇸 RW 28 | 8 | 🧊 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.50 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12:27 |
| 19 | Brian Sutherby 🇨🇦 C 26 | 5 | 🧊 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.20 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 6:49 |
| 20 | Chris Bourque 🇺🇸 LW 22 | 4 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8:41 |
| Team totals · 20 skaters | 82 | 204 | 284 | 488 | 5.95 | 55 | 1929 | 1007 | 427 | 580 |
| # | 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 | Cristobal Huet 🇫🇷 G 32 | 13 | 11 | 1.62 | 0.936 | 308 | 21 | — | |
| 2 | Brent Johnson 🇺🇸 G 31 | 19 | 7 | 2.42 | 0.908 | 454 | 46 | — | |
| 3 | Olie Kolzig 🇿🇦 G 37 | 54 | 26 | 2.83 | 0.892 | 1270 | 153 | — |
41% of this roster was born in Canada, against 52% across the league. The team leans on Russia: 12% of its players, against 3% league-wide. Russian-born players scored 35% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 13 |
|
-11 | 193 (30%) | Green, Laich, Schultz, Bradley +9 |
| United States | 8 |
|
+4 | 76 (12%) | Poti, Pothier, Steckel, Clark +4 |
| Russia | 4 |
|
+9 | 221 (35%) | Ovechkin, Kozlov, Semin, Fedorov |
| Sweden | 2 |
|
even | 106 (17%) | Backstrom, Nylander |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
-3 | 30 (5%) | Fleischmann |
| Finland | 1 |
|
-1 | 1 (0%) | Lepisto |
| France | 1 |
|
+3 | 0 | Huet |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+1 | 9 (1%) | Jurcina |
| South Africa | 1 |
|
+3 | 0 | Kolzig |
Alex Ovechkin led the Washington Capitals in scoring in 2007-08 with 112 points — 65 goals and 47 assists in 82 games. Next came Nicklas Backstrom (69) and Mike Green (56).
Alex Ovechkin scored 65 goals for the Washington Capitals in 2007-08, 22 of them on the power play.
The Washington Capitals dressed 32 players in 2007-08: 29 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 238 goals.
Olie Kolzig played the most games in goal for the Washington Capitals in 2007-08: 54 games, 26 wins, a 0.892 save percentage and a 2.83 goals against average. Brent Johnson was the backup, in 19 games.
Tom Poti averaged 23:28 of ice time per game for the Washington Capitals in 2007-08, the most on the roster.
The average age was 27.4 years. Nicklas Backstrom was the youngest at 20, and Sergei Fedorov the oldest at 38.
The Washington Capitals used 32 players in 2007-08 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 13 in Canada, 8 in the United States and 4 in Russia. The other 7 came from Sweden, Czechia, Finland, France, Slovakia and South Africa. League-wide that season, 52% of players were born in Canada, against 41% on this roster.