The Washington Capitals used 25 players in the 2008-09 playoffs, with a 7-5-2 record. Alex Ovechkin led the team with 21 points (11 goals, 10 assists) in 14 games. Semyon Varlamov played the most games in goal (13).
| # | 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 23 | 14 | 🔥 7 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 1.50 | 3 | 90 | 54 | 5 | 8 | 23:21 |
| 2 | Nicklas Backstrom 🇸🇪 C 21 | 14 | 🧊 1 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 1.07 | 2 | 33 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 21:39 |
| 3 | Alexander Semin 🇷🇺 RW 25 | 14 | 🧊 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 1.00 | 1 | 42 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 19:58 |
| 4 | Mike Green 🇨🇦 D 23 | 14 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0.64 | 1 | 24 | 34 | 18 | 12 | 24:59 |
| 5 | Sergei Fedorov 🇷🇺 C 39 | 14 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0.57 | 0 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 16:39 |
| 6 | Brooks Laich 🇨🇦 C 25 | 14 | 🔥 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.50 | 2 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 17:27 |
| 7 | Tom Poti 🇺🇸 D 32 | 14 | 🧊 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.50 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 21:36 |
| 8 | Viktor Kozlov 🇷🇺 C 34 | 14 | 🧊 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0.43 | 0 | 23 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 15:54 |
| 9 | Matt Bradley 🇨🇦 RW 30 | 14 | 🧊 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0.43 | 0 | 15 | 40 | 2 | 0 | 12:44 |
| 10 | David Steckel 🇺🇸 C 27 | 14 | 🧊 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0.36 | 0 | 19 | 26 | 16 | 4 | 16:03 |
| 11 | Tomas Fleischmann 🇨🇿 LW 24 | 14 | 🔥 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.29 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 14:19 |
| 12 | Boyd Gordon 🇨🇦 C 25 | 14 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.21 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 11:16 |
| 13 | Milan Jurcina 🇸🇰 D 25 | 14 | 🧊 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.14 | 0 | 10 | 52 | 20 | 12 | 16:46 |
| 14 | Brian Pothier 🇺🇸 D 31 | 13 | 🧊 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.15 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 16:48 |
| 15 | Chris Clark 🇺🇸 RW 33 | 8 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.12 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 6:31 |
| 16 | John Erskine 🇨🇦 D 28 | 12 | 🧊 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.08 | 0 | 8 | 39 | 18 | 16 | 19:06 |
| 17 | Shaone Morrisonn 🇨🇦 D 26 | 14 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.07 | 0 | 6 | 33 | 24 | 8 | 18:03 |
| 18 | Tyler Sloan 🇨🇦 D 28 | 2 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 18:23 |
| 19 | Eric Fehr 🇨🇦 C 23 | 9 | 🧊 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7:22 |
| 20 | Michael Nylander 🇸🇪 C 36 | 3 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8:47 |
| 21 | Jeff Schultz 🇨🇦 D 23 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12:26 |
| 22 | Donald Brashear 🇺🇸 LW 37 | 4 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 3:25 |
| 23 | Jay Beagle 🇨🇦 C 23 | 4 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3:32 |
| Team totals · 23 skaters | 14 | 41 | 72 | 113 | 8.07 | 11 | 396 | 398 | 188 | 160 |
| # | 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 | Semyon Varlamov 🇷🇺 G 20 | 13 | 7 | 2.46 | 0.918 | 357 | 32 | — | |
| 2 | Jose Theodore 🇨🇦 G 32 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 | 0.818 | 27 | 6 | — |
44% of this roster was born in Canada, against 51% across the league. The team leans on Russia: 20% of its players, against 4% league-wide. Russian-born players scored 43% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 11 |
|
-7 | 28 (25%) | Green, Laich, Bradley, Gordon +7 |
| Russia | 5 |
|
+16 | 49 (43%) | Ovechkin, Semin, Fedorov, Kozlov +1 |
| United States | 5 |
|
-2 | 15 (13%) | Poti, Steckel, Pothier, Clark +1 |
| Sweden | 2 |
|
even | 15 (13%) | Backstrom, Nylander |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
even | 4 (4%) | Fleischmann |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+2 | 2 (2%) | Jurcina |
Alex Ovechkin led the Washington Capitals in scoring in the 2008-09 playoffs with 21 points — 11 goals and 10 assists in 14 games. Next came Nicklas Backstrom (15) and Alexander Semin (14).
Alex Ovechkin scored 11 goals for the Washington Capitals in the 2008-09 playoffs, 3 of them on the power play.
The Washington Capitals dressed 25 players in the 2008-09 playoffs: 23 skaters and 2 goalies. Together the skaters scored 41 goals.
Semyon Varlamov played the most games in goal for the Washington Capitals in the 2008-09 playoffs: 13 games, 7 wins, a 0.918 save percentage and a 2.46 goals against average. Jose Theodore was the backup, in 2 games.
Mike Green averaged 24:59 of ice time per game for the Washington Capitals in the 2008-09 playoffs, the most on the roster.
The average age was 27.7 years. Semyon Varlamov was the youngest at 20, and Sergei Fedorov the oldest at 39.
The Washington Capitals used 25 players in the 2008-09 playoffs with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 11 in Canada, 5 in Russia and 5 in the United States. The other 4 came from Sweden, Czechia and Slovakia. League-wide that season, 51% of players were born in Canada, against 44% on this roster.