Zdeno Chara has the most career games by a defenseman, with 1,680 games.

Interpreted as:

most regular-season games played by all NHL defensemen

	NAME	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	1,680	209	471	680	+301	2,085	93	133	8	27	35	3	3,419	6.1	13	36	36.1	3,749	2,164	610	1,342	23:55
2	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	1,651	185	763	948	+351	2,891	69	338	13	39	31	1	3,627	5.1	1	5	20.0	569	615	286	550	20:55
3	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	1,635	196	712	908	+395	2,785	75	230	5	18	34	3	3,238	6.1	0	0		612	570	313	296	23:39
4	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	1,615	288	929	1,217	+197	1,084	114	433	9	18	36	4	3,604	8.0	2	2	100.0	66	152	40	129	20:40
5	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,612	410	1,169	1,579	+527	1,141	173	588	16	28	60	5	6,209	6.6	0	1	0.0	277	203	143	135	26:38
6	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	1,564	264	878	1,142	+450	514	132	458	10	30	35	4	3,875	6.8	0	0		477	990	462	638	26:56
7	Ryan Suter R. Suter	1,526	107	589	696	+127	785	36	218	5	12	20	2	2,425	4.4	2	5	40.0	1,201	2,043	548	754	24:05
8	Phil Housley P. Housley	1,495	338	894	1,232	-53	822	129	483	7	3	49	5	3,808	8.9	1	2	50.0	93	147	85	196	20:52
9	Glen Wesley G. Wesley	1,457	128	409	537	+66	1,045	50	202	8	10	15	1	2,556	5.0	0	0		624	897	140	219	19:19
10	Tim Horton T. Horton	1,445	115	403	518	+191	1,611	23	75	3	19	21		1,978	4.2
11	Luke Richardson L. Richardson	1,417	35	166	201	-119	2,055	3	13	4	13	3	1	1,160	3.0	1	3	33.3	736	599	113	275	17:44
12	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	1,416	340	934	1,274	+371	1,511	166	556	10	23	44	3	5,157	6.6	2	2	100.0	152	266	129	247	26:38
13	Harry Howell H. Howell	1,411	94	324	418	-152	1,298	16	94	1	5	15		2,167	3.2
14	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,409	396	1,135	1,531	+298	1,802	135	529	20	31	43	1	4,389	9.0	0	0		33	89	23	97	21:50
15	Roman Hamrlik R. Hamrlik	1,395	155	483	638	-49	1,408	62	233	5	18	23	4	2,988	5.2	1	2	50.0	1,105	1,648	413	699	23:30
16	Larry Robinson L. Robinson	1,384	208	750	958	+722	793	66	243	3	7	29	0	2,332	8.9
17	Teppo Numminen T. Numminen	1,372	117	520	637	+56	513	40	234	2	16	20	1	2,051	5.7	2	3	66.7	281	653	319	424	22:03
18	Marc-Edouard Vlasic M. Vlasic	1,323	84	295	379	+41	472	11	56	2	9	13	3	1,700	4.9	0	1	0.0	711	2,184	334	723	20:41
19	Brent Burns B. Burns	1,320	234	606	840	+1	777	85	220	3	13	38	16	3,699	6.3	12	29	41.4	1,332	1,761	831	1,389	23:21
20	Sergei Gonchar S. Gonchar	1,301	220	591	811	+33	981	102	325	2	9	35	4	2,866	7.7	3	3	100.0	821	1,159	332	788	23:39
21	Darryl Sydor D. Sydor	1,291	98	409	507	+21	755	43	191	1	4	10	2	1,966	5.0	0	5	0.0	485	961	202	418	19:47
22	Mathieu Schneider M. Schneider	1,289	223	520	743	+66	1,245	100	293	4	4	36	4	3,092	7.2	1	8	12.5	1,003	975	319	475	22:44
23	Ken Daneyko K. Daneyko	1,283	36	142	178	+78	2,516	3	7	3	7	3	0	1,170	3.1	1	1	100.0	481	428	127	124	16:42
24	James Patrick J. Patrick	1,280	149	490	639	+100	759	62	233	3	15	16	0	1,848	8.1	2	2	100.0	140	306	48	124	17:31
25	Rob Blake R. Blake	1,270	240	537	777	-4	1,679	136	243	4	15	41	2	3,896	6.2	5	14	35.7	1,229	1,382	452	653	24:54