Joe Thornton has gotten the most career takeaways, with 1,225 taken.

Interpreted as:

most takeaways by a player ever

	NAME	TKA	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,225	1,578	411	1,080	1,491	+185	1,184	139	393	6	6	66	9	2,907	14.1	12,730	24,108	52.8	1,142	498	1,527	19:18
2	Pavel Datsyuk P. Datsyuk	1,134	953	314	604	918	+249	228	97	233	6	5	51	8	2,244	14.0	7,444	13,822	53.9	635	422	665	18:52
3	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	1,029	1,213	514	832	1,346	+28	1,202	183	325	4	1	86	14	3,810	13.5	6,000	13,370	44.9	713	523	1,176	19:34
4	Ryan O'Reilly R. O'Reilly	1,024	1,152	303	521	824	-21	194	96	150	11	10	40	13	2,539	11.9	11,903	21,387	55.7	453	668	460	19:33
5	Marian Hossa M. Hossa	1,008	1,242	510	593	1,103	+228	591	142	228	34	12	83	15	4,095	12.5	64	187	34.2	1,062	395	668	18:55
6	Brent Burns B. Burns	906	1,497	261	649	910	+10	855	88	234	3	14	42	16	4,051	6.4	81	178	45.5	1,557	1,842	1,481	22:22
7	Eric Staal E. Staal	885	1,365	455	608	1,063	-82	854	133	184	21	8	72	5	4,041	11.3	10,063	20,894	48.2	940	558	703	19:07
8	Mark Stone M. Stone	862	706	231	403	634	+141	229	51	111	9	8	42	6	1,510	15.3	134	314	42.7	495	490	486	19:00
9	John Tavares J. Tavares	853	1,184	494	620	1,114	-21	521	155	215	3	3	82	18	3,749	13.2	11,310	21,003	53.8	888	509	1,056	19:18
10	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	851	1,084	200	670	870	-123	486	44	261	2	5	38	12	2,974	6.7	0	4	0.0	780	1,427	1,283	25:14
11	Patrice Bergeron P. Bergeron	845	1,294	427	613	1,040	+289	494	131	195	22	26	81	9	3,974	10.7	15,182	26,206	57.9	1,032	879	469	18:41
12	Jonathan Toews J. Toews	841	1,067	372	511	883	+148	607	93	136	17	15	69	16	2,695	13.8	11,986	20,911	57.3	629	384	460	19:36
13	Anze Kopitar A. Kopitar	831	1,454	440	838	1,278	+108	348	124	321	14	14	78	9	3,328	13.2	14,493	27,146	53.4	1,266	1,030	935	20:48
14	Jamie Benn J. Benn	830	1,192	399	557	956	+81	879	109	156	16	14	62	12	3,041	13.1	4,856	9,191	52.8	1,986	786	829	17:42
15	Mikael Backlund M. Backlund	823	1,066	215	348	563	+66	487	36	69	18	13	38	8	2,576	8.3	7,921	16,162	49.0	794	487	666	17:18
16	Martin St. Louis M. St. Louis	810	1,121	390	641	1,031	+39	300	101	215	29	17	66	10	2,870	13.6	352	854	41.2	420	605	799	20:30
17	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	784	1,491	897	726	1,623	+60	831	326	277	5	1	136	27	6,864	13.1	64	190	33.7	3,742	563	1,189	20:37
18	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	772	1,352	625	1,062	1,687	+197	854	184	403	4	7	100	25	4,299	14.5	15,664	29,637	52.9	1,181	662	1,107	20:40
19	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	759	1,105	271	762	1,033	+83	504	86	335	2	0	39	9	2,264	12.0	8,912	17,777	50.1	771	652	615	19:23
20	Patrick Marleau P. Marleau	757	1,624	532	588	1,120	-42	489	167	231	17	4	103	11	4,109	12.9	5,971	12,423	48.1	1,513	465	1,113	18:09
21	Daniel Alfredsson D. Alfredsson	756	975	366	581	947	+153	420	106	238	22	16	57	6	2,700	13.6	145	407	35.6	785	398	760	19:53
22	Shane Doan S. Doan	756	1,291	380	530	910	-34	1,114	127	179	6	13	63	10	3,541	10.7	1,025	2,370	43.2	2,842	358	571	18:59
23	Jeff Skinner J. Skinner	753	1,078	373	326	699	-129	467	75	89	0	0	47	7	3,330	11.2	770	1,729	44.5	494	260	608	16:43
24	Joe Pavelski J. Pavelski	745	1,332	476	592	1,068	+201	458	176	207	10	8	75	5	3,706	12.8	8,192	15,059	54.4	1,380	1,139	857	18:34
25	Ryan Getzlaf R. Getzlaf	732	1,157	282	737	1,019	+102	960	86	255	8	6	57	11	2,559	11.0	8,672	17,591	49.3	1,980	1,006	1,086	19:29