Tom Wilson had the most penalties in 2015-16, with 56 penalties.

Interpreted as:

most penalties by a player awarded NHL 2016

	NAME	PEN	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Tom Wilson T. Wilson	56	2015-16	WSH	82	7	16	23	+3	163	0	1	0	1	1	0	99	7.1	8	14	57.1	253	48	16	21	12:55
2	Justin Abdelkader J. Abdelkader	50	2015-16	DET	82	19	23	42	-16	120	6	7	0	0	4	0	155	12.3	5	14	35.7	207	44	23	29	18:26
3	Dustin Byfuglien D. Byfuglien	50	2015-16	WPG	81	19	34	53	+4	119	3	14	1	1	6	0	247	7.7	0	0		222	105	73	92	25:12
4	Derek Dorsett D. Dorsett	48	2015-16	VAN	71	5	11	16	-13	177	0	0	0	1	0	0	91	5.5	3	10	30.0	127	44	11	14	12:35
5	Antoine Roussel A. Roussel	48	2015-16	DAL	80	13	16	29	+11	123	0	1	0	1	6	0	111	11.7	15	35	42.9	123	58	30	24	13:51
6	Scott Hartnell S. Hartnell	42	2015-16	CBJ	79	23	26	49	-11	112	10	2	0	0	1	1	150	15.3	0	3	0.0	131	41	20	32	15:35
7	Wayne Simmonds W. Simmonds	42	2015-16	PHI	81	32	28	60	-7	147	13	8	0	0	5	0	229	14.0	5	7	71.4	192	44	25	31	17:14
8	Chris Neil C. Neil	41	2015-16	OTT	80	5	8	13	-3	165	0	0	0	0	0	0	70	7.1	0	1	0.0	215	12	11	12	9:18
9	Radko Gudas R. Gudas	39	2015-16	PHI	76	5	9	14	-3	116	0	0	0	0	1	0	150	3.3	0	0		304	157	11	57	19:51
10	Matt Martin M. Martin	39	2015-16	NYI	80	10	9	19	+2	119	0	0	0	0	1	0	86	11.6	1	4	25.0	365	24	8	15	10:33
11	Dion Phaneuf D. Phaneuf	39	2015-16	TOT	71	4	28	32	-7	90	0	9	0	2	0	0	144	2.8	0	0		168	89	19	35	22:21
12	Cody McLeod C. McLeod	38	2015-16	COL	82	8	5	13	+1	138	1	0	0	0	1	0	73	11.0	1	1	100.0	240	28	6	2	10:32
13	David Backes D. Backes	37	2015-16	STL	79	21	24	45	+4	83	8	5	0	0	3	1	168	12.5	620	1,192	52.0	239	63	39	24	19:14
14	Evander Kane E. Kane	36	2015-16	BUF	65	20	15	35	-14	91	2	4	1	0	3	0	271	7.4	62	124	50.0	171	23	37	37	21:02
15	Brayden McNabb B. McNabb	36	2015-16	LAK	81	2	12	14	+11	92	0	1	0	1	1	0	92	2.2	0	0		206	95	19	56	18:49
16	Oliver Ekman-Larsson O. Ekman-Larsson	35	2015-16	ARI	75	21	34	55	-6	96	12	15	0	0	8	2	228	9.2	0	0		154	67	40	39	24:46
17	Nazem Kadri N. Kadri	35	2015-16	TOR	76	17	28	45	-15	73	4	10	0	0	2	1	260	6.5	641	1,304	49.2	148	43	47	41	18:16
18	Dalton Prout D. Prout	35	2015-16	CBJ	64	3	6	9	-6	102	0	0	0	0	0	0	69	4.3	0	1	0.0	139	70	7	25	16:10
19	Kevin Bieksa K. Bieksa	34	2015-16	ANA	71	4	11	15	-7	99	2	4	0	0	1	0	109	3.7	0	0		152	108	13	51	21:01
20	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	34	2015-16	BOS	77	37	24	61	+21	90	6	2	4	2	6	2	250	14.8	21	56	37.5	65	35	43	69	18:36
21	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	33	2015-16	BOS	80	9	28	37	+12	71	1	9	0	2	3	0	158	5.7	0	1	0.0	134	123	23	87	24:06
22	Kris Letang K. Letang	33	2015-16	PIT	71	16	51	67	+9	66	5	22	0	3	2	1	218	7.3	0	0		135	122	47	69	26:57
23	Adam McQuaid A. McQuaid	33	2015-16	BOS	64	1	8	9	+6	89	0	0	0	0	0	0	42	2.4	0	0		142	121	7	27	18:02
24	Antoine Vermette A. Vermette	33	2015-16	ARI	76	17	21	38	-14	93	6	10	1	0	2	0	123	13.8	754	1,351	55.8	55	57	27	33	16:38
25	Martin Hanzal M. Hanzal	32	2015-16	ARI	64	13	28	41	-5	77	3	10	1	0	2	0	141	9.2	586	1,047	56.0	126	28	27	21	17:48