The Washington Capitals used 22 players in the 2018-19 playoffs, with a 3-3-1 record. Alex Ovechkin led the team with 9 points (4 goals, 5 assists) in 7 games. Braden Holtby played the most games in goal (7).
| # | 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 33 | 7 | 🔥 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1.29 | 3 | 22 | 38 | 5 | 19 | 21:48 |
| 2 | Nicklas Backstrom 🇸🇪 C 31 | 7 | 🧊 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 1.14 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 20:57 |
| 3 | Evgeny Kuznetsov 🇷🇺 C 26 | 7 | 🔥 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0.86 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 19:57 |
| 4 | Tom Wilson 🇨🇦 RW 25 | 7 | 🔥 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0.71 | 1 | 11 | 34 | 8 | 2 | 21:02 |
| 5 | John Carlson 🇺🇸 D 29 | 7 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0.71 | 0 | 23 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 26:14 |
| 6 | Dmitry Orlov 🇷🇺 D 27 | 7 | 🔥 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.57 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 23:23 |
| 7 | Lars Eller 🇩🇰 C 29 | 7 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.43 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 19:00 |
| 8 | Brett Connolly 🇨🇦 RW 26 | 7 | 🧊 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.29 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 13:49 |
| 9 | Brooks Orpik 🇺🇸 D 38 | 7 | 🧊 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.29 | 0 | 9 | 24 | 13 | 0 | 18:12 |
| 10 | Andre Burakovsky 🇦🇹 LW 24 | 7 | 🔥 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.29 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 10:53 |
| 11 | T.J. Oshie 🇺🇸 RW 32 | 4 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.50 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 18:09 |
| 12 | Matt Niskanen 🇺🇸 D 32 | 7 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.29 | 0 | 7 | 21 | 16 | 0 | 24:44 |
| 13 | Nic Dowd 🇺🇸 C 28 | 7 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.14 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 10:09 |
| 14 | Carl Hagelin 🇸🇪 LW 30 | 7 | 🔥 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.14 | 0 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 16:33 |
| 15 | Nick Jensen 🇺🇸 D 28 | 7 | 🧊 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 18:43 |
| 16 | Christian Djoos 🇸🇪 D 24 | 3 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7:24 |
| 17 | Jakub Vrana 🇨🇿 LW 23 | 7 | 🧊 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 14:22 |
| 18 | Chandler Stephenson 🇨🇦 C 24 | 6 | 🧊 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10:00 |
| 19 | Jonas Siegenthaler 🇨🇭 D 21 | 4 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 16:00 |
| 20 | Travis Boyd 🇺🇸 C 25 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10:04 |
| 21 | Devante Smith-Pelly 🇨🇦 RW 26 | 3 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 9:47 |
| Team totals · 21 skaters | 7 | 20 | 32 | 52 | 7.43 | 6 | 190 | 272 | 116 | 67 |
| # | 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 | Braden Holtby 🇨🇦 G 29 | 7 | 3 | 2.86 | 0.914 | 213 | 20 | — |
32% of this roster was born in United States, against 26% across the league. The team leans on Russia: 14% of its players, against 5% league-wide. Russian-born players scored 37% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 |
|
+6 | 12 (23%) | Carlson, Niskanen, Orpik, Oshie +3 |
| Canada | 5 |
|
-20 | 7 (13%) | Wilson, Connolly, Stephenson, Smith-Pelly +1 |
| Russia | 3 |
|
+9 | 19 (37%) | Ovechkin, Kuznetsov, Orlov |
| Sweden | 3 |
|
+4 | 9 (17%) | Backstrom, Hagelin, Djoos |
| Austria | 1 |
|
+5 | 2 (4%) | Burakovsky |
| Switzerland | 1 |
|
+3 | 0 | Siegenthaler |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
+1 | 0 | Vrana |
| Denmark | 1 |
|
+4 | 3 (6%) | Eller |
Alex Ovechkin led the Washington Capitals in scoring in the 2018-19 playoffs with 9 points — 4 goals and 5 assists in 7 games. Next came Nicklas Backstrom (8) and Evgeny Kuznetsov (6).
Nicklas Backstrom scored 5 goals for the Washington Capitals in the 2018-19 playoffs, 2 of them on the power play.
The Washington Capitals dressed 22 players in the 2018-19 playoffs: 21 skaters and 1 goalies. Together the skaters scored 20 goals.
Braden Holtby played the most games in goal for the Washington Capitals in the 2018-19 playoffs: 7 games, 3 wins, a 0.914 save percentage and a 2.86 goals against average.
John Carlson averaged 26:14 of ice time per game for the Washington Capitals in the 2018-19 playoffs, the most on the roster.
The average age was 27.7 years. Jonas Siegenthaler was the youngest at 21, and Brooks Orpik the oldest at 38.
The Washington Capitals used 22 players in the 2018-19 playoffs with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 7 in the United States, 5 in Canada and 3 in Russia. The other 7 came from Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Czechia and Denmark. League-wide that season, 26% of players were born in the United States, against 32% on this roster.