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

Interpreted as:

most takeaways by a player in NHL history

	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	2,906	14.1	12,730	24,107	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	Ryan O'Reilly R. O'Reilly	1,034	1,165	308	525	833	-25	194	97	151	12	10	42	13	2,558	12.0	12,035	21,610	55.7	459	682	468	19:33
4	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	1,033	1,226	517	847	1,364	+35	1,214	184	331	4	1	86	14	3,838	13.5	6,050	13,479	44.9	720	526	1,190	19:32
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	910	1,510	262	654	916	+10	867	88	235	3	14	43	16	4,085	6.4	81	178	45.5	1,560	1,859	1,491	22:21
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	863	712	233	414	647	+143	229	52	118	9	9	42	6	1,529	15.2	134	315	42.5	498	495	492	19:00
9	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	859	1,097	200	680	880	-116	490	44	263	2	5	38	12	2,997	6.7	0	4	0.0	780	1,442	1,306	25:12
10	John Tavares J. Tavares	855	1,196	500	630	1,130	-20	521	156	216	3	3	83	19	3,784	13.2	11,422	21,198	53.9	901	511	1,063	19:17
11	Patrice Bergeron P. Bergeron	845	1,294	427	613	1,040	+289	496	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	844	1,079	374	516	890	+143	615	94	138	17	15	69	16	2,710	13.8	12,096	21,084	57.4	630	392	466	19:34
13	Anze Kopitar A. Kopitar	835	1,463	440	844	1,284	+113	350	124	324	14	14	78	9	3,342	13.2	14,582	27,314	53.4	1,276	1,042	948	20:47
14	Jamie Benn J. Benn	830	1,192	399	557	956	+81	879	109	156	16	14	62	12	3,041	13.1	4,857	9,193	52.8	1,986	786	829	17:42
15	Mikael Backlund M. Backlund	827	1,080	217	352	569	+63	491	36	69	18	14	38	8	2,607	8.3	8,045	16,415	49.0	804	490	675	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	785	1,503	899	731	1,630	+60	833	326	279	5	1	137	27	6,891	13.0	65	191	34.0	3,764	563	1,202	20:36
18	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	777	1,365	634	1,069	1,703	+201	876	188	404	4	7	101	25	4,326	14.7	15,796	29,885	52.9	1,194	669	1,121	20:39
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	17,776	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	754	1,090	377	328	705	-134	469	75	90	0	0	47	7	3,354	11.2	772	1,737	44.4	498	263	621	16:41
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	15,060	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