least hits by defenseman with at least 40 games 2004

Tom Preissing and Deron Quint were tied for the fewest hits by a defenseman with 40+ games played in 2003-04, with 14 hits.

	NAME	HIT	GP	SEASON	TM	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Tom Preissing T. Preissing	14	69	2003-04	SJS	2	17	19	+8	12	2	8	0	0	1	0	89	2.2	0	0		43	4	24	18:12
2	Deron Quint D. Quint	14	51	2003-04	CHI	4	7	11	-26	18	2	1	0	0	0	0	72	5.6	0	0		55	4	17	18:08
3	Christian Ehrhoff C. Ehrhoff	15	41	2003-04	SJS	1	11	12	+4	14	0	4	0	0	1	0	58	1.7	0	0		8	3	22	15:23
4	Tommy Albelin T. Albelin	16	45	2003-04	NJD	1	3	4	+7	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	27	3.7	0	0		41	15	23	14:48
5	Paul Martin P. Martin	17	70	2003-04	NJD	6	18	24	+12	4	2	8	0	0	2	1	82	7.3	0	0		64	35	53	20:08
6	Christian Backman C. Backman	18	66	2003-04	STL	5	13	18	+3	16	1	4	0	0	0	0	92	5.4	0	0		71	17	45	19:20
7	Brad Bombardir B. Bombardir	18	69	2003-04	TOT	1	2	3	-9	25	0	0	0	0	1	0	47	2.1	0	0		120	20	44	20:00
8	Joni Pitkanen J. Pitkanen	18	71	2003-04	PHI	8	19	27	+15	44	5	12	0	0	2	0	133	6.0	0	0		38	15	38	16:35
9	Eric Desjardins E. Desjardins	19	48	2003-04	PHI	1	11	12	+11	28	0	3	0	1	0	0	92	1.1	0	1	0.0	53	16	38	22:29
10	Alexander Khavanov A. Khavanov	19	48	2003-04	STL	3	7	10	+2	18	2	2	0	0	0	0	62	4.8	0	1	0.0	59	7	30	19:20
11	Sven Butenschon S. Butenschon	20	41	2003-04	NYI	1	6	7	-3	30	0	0	0	1	0	0	17	5.9	0	0		27	3	21	11:15
12	Brad Ference B. Ference	21	63	2003-04	PHX	0	5	5	-19	103	0	1	0	0	0	0	39	0.0	0	0		60	4	20	14:03
13	Dick Tarnstrom D. Tarnstrom	21	80	2003-04	PIT	16	36	52	-37	38	12	26	0	0	0	0	158	10.1	0	0		119	19	44	24:03
14	Jason Woolley J. Woolley	22	55	2003-04	DET	4	15	19	+19	28	0	6	0	0	1	0	60	6.7	1	2	50.0	42	14	29	15:42
15	James Patrick J. Patrick	27	55	2003-04	BUF	4	7	11	+11	12	0	1	0	0	1	0	44	9.1	0	0		86	10	31	18:59
16	Brian Campbell B. Campbell	28	53	2003-04	BUF	3	8	11	-8	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	45	6.7	0	0		40	10	34	16:02
17	Frantisek Kaberle F. Kaberle	28	67	2003-04	ATL	3	26	29	+2	30	2	16	0	0	1	0	94	3.2	1	2	50.0	108	23	39	23:20
18	Scott Niedermayer S. Niedermayer	28	81	2003-04	NJD	14	40	54	+20	44	9	16	0	3	3	1	165	8.5	0	1	0.0	93	63	105	25:56
19	Brian Rafalski B. Rafalski	28	69	2003-04	NJD	6	30	36	+6	24	2	16	0	1	1	0	130	4.6	0	0		63	28	77	22:48
20	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	29	81	2003-04	DET	10	28	38	+19	18	3	18	1	2	3	1	194	5.2	0	0		105	48	56	27:39
21	Andrei Markov A. Markov	29	69	2003-04	MTL	6	22	28	-2	20	2	8	0	0	0	0	105	5.7	1	2	50.0	84	42	80	21:29
22	Teppo Numminen T. Numminen	29	62	2003-04	DAL	3	14	17	-5	18	0	7	0	0	0	0	83	3.6	1	1	100.0	57	41	69	21:40
23	Bryan Berard B. Berard	30	58	2003-04	CHI	13	34	47	-24	53	6	19	0	0	0	0	203	6.4	0	0		47	12	34	21:46
24	Dale Purinton D. Purinton	30	40	2003-04	NYR	1	1	2	-9	117	0	0	0	0	0	0	31	3.2	0	0		27	6	15	12:47
25	Daniel Tjarnqvist D. Tjarnqvist	30	68	2003-04	ATL	5	15	20	-4	20	0	2	2	1	1	0	65	7.7	1	4	25.0	130	33	53	22:17