Derek Dorsett had the most penalty minutes in 2011-12, with 235 minutes in the box.

Interpreted as:

most NHL penalty minutes by a player in 2012

	NAME	PIM	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Derek Dorsett D. Dorsett	235	2011-12	CBJ	77	12	8	20	-11	2	1	1	0	1	0	137	8.8	14	28	50.0	199	40	36	12	14:42
2	Zac Rinaldo Z. Rinaldo	232	2011-12	PHI	66	2	7	9	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	54	3.7	6	9	66.7	175	19	4	9	7:29
3	Zenon Konopka Z. Konopka	193	2011-12	OTT	55	3	2	5	-4	1	0	0	0	1	0	34	8.8	232	394	58.9	54	18	7	14	7:51
4	Chris Neil C. Neil	178	2011-12	OTT	72	13	15	28	-10	2	4	0	0	0	0	127	10.2	0	2	0.0	271	20	21	20	12:48
5	Cody McLeod C. McLeod	164	2011-12	COL	75	6	5	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	62	9.7	2	3	66.7	123	13	12	3	7:12
6	Steve Ott S. Ott	156	2011-12	DAL	74	11	28	39	+5	4	4	0	2	2	1	108	10.2	561	1,011	55.5	278	27	26	25	18:21
7	Brandon Prust B. Prust	156	2011-12	NYR	82	5	12	17	-1	0	0	2	0	2	0	68	7.4	3	5	60.0	144	51	15	23	11:57
8	Shawn Thornton S. Thornton	154	2011-12	BOS	81	5	8	13	-7	0	0	1	0	0	0	114	4.4	16	38	42.1	91	12	19	6	9:11
9	David Clarkson D. Clarkson	138	2011-12	NJD	80	30	16	46	-8	8	8	0	0	7	1	228	13.2	102	243	42.0	169	19	32	16	16:22
10	Steve Downie S. Downie	137	2011-12	TOT	75	14	27	41	-6	2	4	0	0	2	0	140	10.0	40	87	46.0	105	25	49	32	15:56
11	Scott Hartnell S. Hartnell	136	2011-12	PHI	82	37	30	67	+19	16	7	0	0	6	1	232	15.9	20	63	31.7	188	37	27	42	17:47
12	Milan Lucic M. Lucic	135	2011-12	BOS	81	26	35	61	+7	7	4	0	0	1	0	149	17.4	14	30	46.7	201	26	25	46	17:02
13	Maxim Lapierre M. Lapierre	130	2011-12	VAN	82	9	10	19	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	103	8.7	251	482	52.1	244	24	17	9	11:14
14	Corey Perry C. Perry	127	2011-12	ANA	80	37	23	60	-7	14	9	1	1	6	1	277	13.4	19	48	39.6	69	45	35	50	21:23
15	Jared Boll J. Boll	126	2011-12	CBJ	54	2	1	3	-8	0	0	0	0	0	0	35	5.7	3	5	60.0	96	10	7	3	8:07
16	Nick Foligno N. Foligno	124	2011-12	OTT	82	15	32	47	+2	1	3	0	0	3	0	153	9.8	62	149	41.6	196	30	35	26	14:39
17	Ryan Reaves R. Reaves	124	2011-12	STL	60	3	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	32	9.4	1	2	50.0	171	7	11	3	6:32
18	Kyle Clifford K. Clifford	123	2011-12	LAK	81	5	7	12	-5	0	0	0	0	2	0	88	5.7	1	8	12.5	179	9	8	21	9:24
19	Matt Martin M. Martin	121	2011-12	NYI	80	7	7	14	-17	0	0	0	2	1	0	130	5.4	10	23	43.5	374	41	36	21	12:09
20	Brad Staubitz B. Staubitz	121	2011-12	TOT	62	1	0	1	-5	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	3.7	3	6	50.0	96	20	7	5	6:31
21	P.K. Subban	119	2011-12	MTL	81	7	29	36	+9	5	9	0	1	0	0	205	3.4	0	0		105	113	26	88	24:18
22	Patrick Kaleta P. Kaleta	116	2011-12	BUF	63	5	5	10	-5	0	0	0	0	1	0	69	7.2	10	19	52.6	139	46	19	17	13:09
23	Eric Boulton E. Boulton	115	2011-12	NJD	51	0	0	0	-12	0	0	0	0	0	0	25	0.0	1	3	33.3	89	10	1	6	6:35
24	Krys Barch K. Barch	114	2011-12	TOT	51	2	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	8.3	2	7	28.6	67	10	5	5	7:21
25	Wayne Simmonds W. Simmonds	114	2011-12	PHI	82	28	21	49	-1	11	5	0	0	4	0	197	14.2	7	17	41.2	140	34	30	25	15:55