Derek Dorsett had the most penalty minutes in 2015-16, with 177 minutes in the box.

Interpreted as:

most NHL penalty minutes by a player in 2016

	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	177	2015-16	VAN	71	5	11	16	-13	0	0	0	1	0	0	91	5.5	3	10	30.0	127	44	11	14	12:35
2	Chris Neil C. Neil	165	2015-16	OTT	80	5	8	13	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	70	7.1	0	1	0.0	215	12	11	12	9:18
3	Tom Wilson T. Wilson	163	2015-16	WSH	82	7	16	23	+3	0	1	0	1	1	0	99	7.1	8	14	57.1	253	48	16	21	12:55
4	Wayne Simmonds W. Simmonds	147	2015-16	PHI	81	32	28	60	-7	13	8	0	0	5	0	229	14.0	5	7	71.4	192	44	25	31	17:14
5	Cody McLeod C. McLeod	138	2015-16	COL	82	8	5	13	+1	1	0	0	0	1	0	73	11.0	1	1	100.0	240	28	6	2	10:32
6	Antoine Roussel A. Roussel	123	2015-16	DAL	80	13	16	29	+11	0	1	0	1	6	0	111	11.7	15	35	42.9	123	58	30	24	13:51
7	Justin Abdelkader J. Abdelkader	120	2015-16	DET	82	19	23	42	-16	6	7	0	0	4	0	155	12.3	5	14	35.7	207	44	23	29	18:26
8	Dustin Byfuglien D. Byfuglien	119	2015-16	WPG	81	19	34	53	+4	3	14	1	1	6	0	247	7.7	0	0		222	105	73	92	25:12
9	Matt Martin M. Martin	119	2015-16	NYI	80	10	9	19	+2	0	0	0	0	1	0	86	11.6	1	4	25.0	365	24	8	15	10:33
10	Radko Gudas R. Gudas	116	2015-16	PHI	76	5	9	14	-3	0	0	0	0	1	0	150	3.3	0	0		304	157	11	57	19:51
11	Zack Kassian Z. Kassian	114	2015-16	EDM	36	3	5	8	-7	0	0	0	0	0	0	42	7.1	1	4	25.0	95	6	11	15	12:27
12	Scott Hartnell S. Hartnell	112	2015-16	CBJ	79	23	26	49	-11	10	2	0	0	1	1	150	15.3	0	3	0.0	131	41	20	32	15:35
13	Mark Borowiecki M. Borowiecki	107	2015-16	OTT	63	1	1	2	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	3.7	0	1	0.0	271	99	3	22	14:38
14	Brandon Bollig B. Bollig	103	2015-16	CGY	54	2	2	4	-10	0	0	0	0	0	0	56	3.6	2	3	66.7	117	25	11	8	9:17
15	Dalton Prout D. Prout	102	2015-16	CBJ	64	3	6	9	-6	0	0	0	0	0	0	69	4.3	0	1	0.0	139	70	7	25	16:10
16	Jordin Tootoo J. Tootoo	102	2015-16	NJD	66	4	5	9	-26	2	3	0	0	0	0	90	4.4	0	2	0.0	99	18	17	23	11:32
17	Ryan White R. White	101	2015-16	PHI	73	11	5	16	-9	3	0	0	0	0	0	88	12.5	184	351	52.4	208	51	14	21	12:34
18	Kevin Bieksa K. Bieksa	99	2015-16	ANA	71	4	11	15	-7	2	4	0	0	1	0	109	3.7	0	0		152	108	13	51	21:01
19	Shane Doan S. Doan	98	2015-16	ARI	72	28	19	47	+4	12	5	0	0	4	0	170	16.5	74	143	51.7	116	15	33	27	17:36
20	Bobby Farnham B. Farnham	97	2015-16	TOT	53	8	2	10	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	50	16.0	2	4	50.0	93	19	11	7	9:19
21	Oliver Ekman-Larsson O. Ekman-Larsson	96	2015-16	ARI	75	21	34	55	-6	12	15	0	0	8	2	228	9.2	0	0		154	67	40	39	24:46
22	Antoine Vermette A. Vermette	93	2015-16	ARI	76	17	21	38	-14	6	10	1	0	2	0	123	13.8	754	1,351	55.8	55	57	27	33	16:38
23	Brayden McNabb B. McNabb	92	2015-16	LAK	81	2	12	14	+11	0	1	0	1	1	0	92	2.2	0	0		206	95	19	56	18:49
24	Evander Kane E. Kane	91	2015-16	BUF	65	20	15	35	-14	2	4	1	0	3	0	271	7.4	62	124	50.0	171	23	37	37	21:02
25	Mike Brown M. Brown	90	2015-16	TOT	58	2	3	5	-5	0	0	0	0	0	0	51	3.9	3	4	75.0	176	25	9	12	7:48