Dougie Hamilton took the most shots by a defenseman in 2022-23, with 275 taken.

	NAME	S	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Dougie Hamilton D. Hamilton	275	2022-23	NJD	82	22	52	74	+23	50	8	20	0	0	7	2	8.0	0	0		64	86	21	74	21:46
2	Roman Josi R. Josi	269	2022-23	NSH	67	18	41	59	+5	36	8	16	0	0	5	1	6.7	0	0		51	146	24	29	25:10
3	Brent Burns B. Burns	255	2022-23	CAR	82	18	43	61	+19	44	4	19	0	0	2	1	7.1	1	1	100.0	40	86	55	52	23:13
4	Brandon Montour B. Montour	242	2022-23	FLA	80	16	57	73	+9	107	3	30	0	0	5	2	6.6	0	0		92	93	33	52	24:08
5	Aaron Ekblad A. Ekblad	216	2022-23	FLA	71	14	24	38	-14	68	8	11	1	0	2	0	6.5	0	0		77	80	29	65	23:24
6	Gustav Forsling G. Forsling	209	2022-23	FLA	82	13	28	41	+19	40	1	4	0	2	3	0	6.2	0	0		69	106	40	47	23:26
7	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	209	2022-23	SJS	82	25	76	101	-26	36	5	22	0	0	4	2	12.0	0	1	0.0	33	90	81	101	25:37
8	Miro Heiskanen M. Heiskanen	206	2022-23	DAL	79	11	62	73	+12	32	2	32	0	1	2	1	5.3	0	0		49	96	53	65	25:29
9	Noah Dobson N. Dobson	206	2022-23	NYI	78	13	36	49	+4	20	5	14	0	0	2	1	6.3	0	0		60	104	39	49	20:23
10	Rasmus Dahlin R. Dahlin	204	2022-23	BUF	78	15	58	73	+12	92	6	26	0	0	2	0	7.4	0	0		105	132	45	61	25:48
11	Darnell Nurse D. Nurse	203	2022-23	EDM	82	12	31	43	+26	64	0	1	2	1	4	1	5.9	0	0		146	164	41	76	23:30
12	Jacob Trouba J. Trouba	199	2022-23	NYR	82	8	22	30	+7	63	2	3	1	1	2	0	4.0	0	1	0.0	218	196	32	49	21:12
13	Justin Faulk J. Faulk	196	2022-23	STL	82	11	39	50	-4	34	2	8	0	0	3	1	5.6	0	0		112	140	51	58	23:23
14	Brady Skjei B. Skjei	188	2022-23	CAR	81	18	20	38	+7	40	4	3	1	0	3	0	9.6	0	0		71	62	47	54	21:49
15	Victor Hedman V. Hedman	185	2022-23	TBL	76	9	40	49	+10	42	1	13	1	2	1	0	4.9	0	0		95	136	48	79	23:43
16	Seth Jones S. Jones	178	2022-23	CHI	72	12	25	37	-38	30	2	10	0	1	1	1	6.7	0	0		106	125	46	66	24:27
17	Noah Hanifin N. Hanifin	176	2022-23	CGY	81	7	31	38	+2	33	1	7	0	1	0	0	4.0	0	0		76	129	58	53	22:39
18	Cale Makar C. Makar	176	2022-23	COL	60	17	49	66	+16	30	5	25	0	0	6	2	9.7	0	0		65	78	50	48	26:23
19	Tony DeAngelo T. DeAngelo	174	2022-23	PHI	70	11	31	42	-27	73	4	15	0	0	1	1	6.3	0	0		52	79	25	57	22:04
20	Josh Morrissey J. Morrissey	172	2022-23	WPG	78	16	60	76	+2	41	2	26	0	0	6	2	9.3	0	0		89	119	36	59	24:14
21	Alex Pietrangelo A. Pietrangelo	170	2022-23	VGK	73	11	43	54	+13	16	1	13	0	2	3	1	6.5	1	1	100.0	65	177	56	52	23:59
22	Thomas Chabot T. Chabot	165	2022-23	OTT	68	11	30	41	-11	52	5	15	0	0	0	0	6.7	0	0		79	123	19	65	24:58
23	Devon Toews D. Toews	165	2022-23	COL	80	7	43	50	+39	26	1	6	0	0	0	0	4.2	0	0		93	138	45	39	25:06
24	Tyson Barrie T. Barrie	163	2022-23	TOT	85	13	42	55	-7	36	4	27	0	1	1	0	8.0	0	0		55	90	32	48	19:47
25	Kris Letang K. Letang	161	2022-23	PIT	64	12	29	41	-13	30	6	15	1	0	3	3	7.5	0	0		162	108	47	84	24:51